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Regulator OKs Virgin Light-Maintenance at Temple Mills, Order Pending

8/7/2026

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Eurostar kept trains at the leased Temple Mills depot, where Office of Rail and Road found six to ten trains and decommissioned carriages at site with fifteen-train overnight capacity.
The regulator concluded the depot can accommodate Eurostar and one rival and approved Virgin’s light-maintenance access only.
Virgin won an October slot at Temple Mills but has not yet ordered the twelve Avelia Stream trains it said it would order “soon.”

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Story summary

Eurostar kept trains at the leased Temple Mills depot, where Office of Rail and Road found six to ten trains and decommissioned carriages at site with fifteen-train overnight capacity.
The regulator concluded the depot can accommodate Eurostar and one rival and approved Virgin’s light-maintenance access only.
Virgin won an October slot at Temple Mills but has not yet ordered the twelve Avelia Stream trains it said it would order “soon.”