Rail Transport in France - Channel Tunnel, Eurostar, Sncf, Thalys, Vehicule Automatique Leger, Reseau Breton (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 69. Chapters: Channel Tunnel, Eurostar, SNCF, Thalys, Vehicule Automatique Leger, Reseau Breton, List of Alsace-Lorraine locomotives, Chemin de Fer des Cotes-du-Nord, Transport in Rhone-Alpes, History of rail transport in France, Chemin de Fer du Finistere, Ligne du Haut-Bugey, Tramway de Pithiviers a Toury, Reseau des Bains de Mer, Chemin de Fer du Cambresis, Toulouse Metro, Chemins de Fer du Morbihan, Lyon-Geneva railway, Reseau Albert, L'Arrivee d'un train en gare de La Ciotat, Lyon Metro, CEVA rail, Rennes Metro, Alstom Coradia, Tramways Electrique du Finistere, Train des pignes, Imperial Railways in Alsace-Lorraine, Transports en commun lyonnais, Lille Metro, Toulouse tramway, Turbotrain, Rhonexpress, Reseau Ferre de France, Marseille Metro, Channel Tunnel Safety Authority, Autorite de Regulation des Activites Ferroviaires, Forty-and-eights, Gare de Lyon-Saint-Paul, IDTGV, Gare d'Aulnay-sous-Bois, Reseau Express de l'Aire urbaine Lyonnaise, Aqualys, CDG Express, Tram-train de l'ouest lyonnais, Mobiville, Tisseo. Excerpt: Eurostar is a high-speed passenger rail service connecting London with Paris and Brussels. All its trains traverse the Channel Tunnel between Britain and France, owned and operated separately by Eurotunnel. The London terminal is St Pancras International, with calling points at Ebbsfleet International and Ashford International in Kent. Calling points in France are Calais-Frethun and Lille-Europe, with the main Paris terminus at Gare du Nord. Trains to Belgium terminate at Midi/Zuid station in Brussels. In addition, there are limited services from London to Disneyland Paris at Marne-la-Vallee - Chessy, and to seasonal destinations in southern France. The service is operated by eighteen-coach Class 373/1 trains which run at up to 300 kilometres per hour (186 mph) on a network of high-speed lines. The LGV Nord ...