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While Eurostar is today one of the main cross-channel options for those wishing to travel between Britain and Europe, during its early years the company was mired in controversial underperformance and an inability to meet profit margins due to various factors related to government hesitance in providing the necessary infrastructure to make it competitive.

As an eternal testament to this, two of the more ambitious proposals for the Eurostar company, came about with the Nightstar and Regional Eurostar concepts, two services that were intended to bring Eurostar to the further reaches of the British population beyond London, but in both cases failed due to a lack of investment by the state that saw them collapse before they even began.

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Chapters:

0:00 - Preamble
1:09 - Immediate Obstacles
4:56 - Regional Eurostar
7:17 - Nightstar
10:12 - Building the Fleet
13:02 - Lacking a Business Case
15:37 - The Beginning and The End
18:16 - Breaking Up
22:25 - Could It Have Worked?
24:53 - Conclusion

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References:
- Key Model World (and their respective sources)
- Kent Rail (and their respective sources)
- Wikipedia (and its respective references)