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After rejection of various British ideas for the service that was to become the British Rail Class 373 Eurostar train—which eventually was created from the existing French TGV scaled for a British loading gauge—the Nightstar concept emerged as an individual locomotive-hauled passenger train. While some carriages were built, the project was ...
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.
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 was used for Eurostar international high-speed rail services from the United Kingdom to France and Belgium through the Channel Tunnel.
Kent residents travelling to the continent on Eurostar must first travel to London to board the train. A petition calling for Eurostar to resume the services has attracted more than 60,000 signatures.
Abandoned light rail projects in the United Kingdom (15 P) Abandoned trains of the United Kingdom (9 P) Abandoned underground railway projects in London (2 C, 6 P)
The Regional Eurostar rolling stock was built, but not a single train ever ran to Europe from anywhere other than London. Even on the routes from the capital, the number of destinations has shrunk ...
Passengers were stuck on a Eurostar train in the Channel Tunnel for two-and-a-half hours after an apparent breakdown of the London to Paris service.. On one of the busiest travel days of the ...
Regional Eurostar was a planned Eurostar train service from Paris and Brussels to locations in the United Kingdom to the north and west of London. While the Channel Tunnel was being planned and constructed in the 1980s, the operation of Eurostar services across Britain was included in the plans.