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Eurostar is an international high-speed rail service in Western Europe, connecting Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.. The service is operated by the Eurostar Group which was formed from the merger of Eurostar, which operated trains through the Channel Tunnel to the United Kingdom, and Thalys which operated in Western Europe.
Waterloo International station was the London terminus of the Eurostar international rail service from its opening on 14 November 1994 to its closure on 13 November 2007, when it was replaced by London St Pancras International as the terminal for international rail services following the opening of High Speed 1 (HS1).
In most trains there's free or open seating. In case one can make seat reservations, train seating plans or train seat maps [2] are provided in computer reservation systems to allow future train passengers to select their seat, usually an aisle seat or window seat.
Eurostar was previously operated by three separate companies in Belgium, France and the United Kingdom, but this structure was replaced by EIL as a new single management company on 1 September 2010. EIL is owned by Eurostar Group. [3] Eurostar International is the largest customer of Getlink, the owner of the Channel Tunnel.
The British Rail Class 373, known in France as the TGV TMST and branded by Eurostar as the Eurostar e300, is a French designed and Anglo-French built electric multiple unit train that is used for Eurostar international high-speed rail services from the United Kingdom to France and Belgium through the Channel Tunnel.
This is a route-map template for the Eurostar, a high-speed rail service in Europe.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
Articles relating to all aspects of the Eurostar train service between the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and the Netherlands
PBKA is a high-speed trainset, manufactured by the French company GEC-Alsthom, and used on the international Eurostar service. Originally built for Thalys (which later merged with Eurostar) they were intended to operate between Paris, Brussels, Köln (English: Cologne) and Amsterdam, forming the abbreviation PBKA.