Abandoned? Many of the Eurostars are going to be scrapped:
The trains are too long and draw way too much power to be used anywhere else in the UK or in continental Europe. Because they're narrower than trains in the EU (restricted loading gauge in the UK) their usefulness even absent the other problems is limited, and the trains are proving to be a maintenance headache. Only about a half dozen of the least-troublesome trainsets are being refurbished, the rest are being replaced by new trains and are thus redundant and unwanted.
---PCJ
