Rail Transport in the United Kingdom - Eurostar, Great Western Railway, East Coast Main Line, Urban Rail in the United Kingdom (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 53. Chapters: Eurostar, Great Western Railway, East Coast Main Line, Urban rail in the United Kingdom, East Coast Main Line Route Utilisation Strategy, Parliamentary train, VolkerRail, Great Central Railway, Great Rail Journeys, National Preservation, Community rail, Multiple working, Foster Yeoman, Modern Railways, TyneTees Express, Local door operation, Sandite, Plusbus, CrossCountry network map, Engineers line reference, Saver return, Autotrain, History of rail transport in the United Kingdom, Railway Correspondence and Travel Society, John Wallace Pringle, Hawk Bridge, ORCATS, Secure Stations Scheme, Railway Operating Division, Railway Regulation Act 1846. 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 line in France opened before Eurostar services began in 1994, and newer lines enabling faster journeys were added later-HSL 1 in Belgium and High Speed 1 in southern England. The French and Belgian parts of the network are shared with Paris-Brussels Thalys services and other TGV trains. In the United Kingdom the two-stage Channel Tunnel Rail Link project was com...