Can I travel around the UK by public transport on Boxing Day?
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Exclusive: Key questions and answers for travelling around the UK by train, bus, ferry and air for the rest of the year. For the six final days of 2024, from 26 to 31 December, millions of people are on the move around Britain. But how easily will they be able to travel by train, bus, ferry and air? That depends on the day and the destination.
![[Action station: Eurostar passengers at London St Pancras International, one of the few UK railway stations open on Boxing Day]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/12/26/08/newFile.jpg)
These are the key questions and answers. Eurostar is running a near-normal service from London St Pancras International to Paris (15 trains each way), Brussels (eight trains each way) and Amsterdam (three trains each way). And they look very popular – the first two departures to Paris sold out, and seats on the third were selling at £375 each just before departure.
![[Lines closed: Avanti West Coast map of 27 December engineering disruption]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/12/26/09/newFile-1.jpg)
But from St Pancras the only possible journeys by train are to Continental Europe. No trains are running to Kent on Southeastern, to the south coast or Bedford on Thameslink, or to Leicester and Sheffield on East Midlands Railway. Scotland’s central belt will have many trains running, centred on Edinburgh and Glasgow. The biggest 26 December operation for decades on ScotRail will see links between the two cities and extending north and northeast to Perth, Dundee and Arbroath, as well as a busy network in Strathclyde.
In England, trains are extremely rare. London Victoria-Gatwick Airport-Brighton: hourly services from 8.30am to 8.30pm. Some other south London suburban trains will run to and from Victoria. Tottenham Hale-Stansted Airport: half-hourly services from 6.45am to 11.15pm. Tottenham Hale is on the Victoria Line of the London Underground, which will be running.
