A major fleet of double-decker trains will operate in the UK for the first time, Eurostar has announced. The company said it will purchase up to 50 two-storey trains for use across its entire network, which includes between London St Pancras and Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam via the Channel Tunnel.

EUROPE: Virgin Group has set out more details of its planned Channel Tunnel high speed train services and its funding partners, with founder Sir Richard Branson saying 'it's time to end this 30-year monopoly and bring some Virgin magic to the cross-Channel route'.

According to British Transport Police (BTP), “multiple people have been stabbed” on a train bound for Huntingdon. Armed officers were deployed to Huntingdon station, which was subsequently closed. The incident was reported at 7:39 p.m. local time. “A number of people have been taken to hospital,” Cambridgeshire Police confirmed, as quoted by CNN.

Two people have been arrested after a number of people were stabbed on a passenger train in Cambridgeshire, England, on Saturday, police said.

British police are not treating a mass stabbing attack on a London-bound train as an act of terror. It left at least 11 people in hospital, some in critical condition.

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The UK authorities have detained a 32-year-old individual following a major knife attack on board a passenger train in Cambridgeshire, that left 11 persons injured.

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has responded to growing calls for 'airport-style' security scanners at UK railway stations following the Huntingdon train attack

One rail worker confronted the attacker and the train driver acted quickly to stop the train, during a frenzied knife attack on a London-bound train.