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If you are travelling from South England (especially London) you may benefit from excellent fast train service with the Eurostar and the French high-speed train (TGV) getting you very close to your favourite Alps resort (in most cases, much closer than the airport). You can also benefit from very efficient high-speed train from Belgium, Nederlands, West Germany, with the Thalys or the ICE and then the TGV. Contrary to what is generally believed, travelling by train is a more time efficient way of travelling than the plane as transit time at the train station is very short compared to the airport. High-speed trains are very comfortable and you can easily work, read, play cards, enjoy the landscape, sleep, and it can be part of the enjoyment of your holiday to the Alps. It is generally worthwhile to consider travelling by train for holiday of 6-7 days or more (some even do it for a 3 days Alps stay), and most of the people who have experienced it once tends to do it again and again as it so pleasant. You may also take a break and visit Paris, Lille or Lyon (Unesco world heritage), or the ancient and beautiful cities of Strasbourg and Dijon if you come from Germany. Travelling by train will help preserve the glaciers of the French Alps, as the CO2 emission for a train journey amounts to barely 10% of an equivalent plane journey (The French Alps glaciers have unfortunately dramatically shrank for the past 30 years, see the peer review article "Analysis of the glacier retreat in the French Alps since the 1960s...") .