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1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge Thalys 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 ...
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 thing is: Eurostar is very well known overseas. In the United States when a tourist wants to travel by train in Europe, 50 per cent of them connect to the Eurostar website. They know us very well.
The Class 357 trains had been introduced with high density 3+2 seating, consisting of 282 seats and space for 124 standing, giving a total capacity of 406 passengers per four carriage unit. In late 2015 c2c adapted 20% of its carriages into a "Metro" configuration with seats removed around doorways and in the aisle to provide a 2+2 layout.
The interior configuration is reconfigurable, allowing it to be adapted to suit the trainset's intended use and customer specifications. [12] It has been anticipated that a common intercity configuration would feature a 2+1 seating configuration, dedicated luggage spaces, increased toilet capacity, greater seat pitch, individual reading lights ...
The EC130 was the first rotorcraft to become available with the business executive-orientated Stylence cabin configuration. [14] The EC130 T2 is equipped with active anti-vibration control systems adapted from the Eurocopter EC225 Super Puma , [ 4 ] [ 13 ] these comprise five accelerometers and four linear actuators to produce smooth flight ...
Eurostar was designed in the mid 1980s jointly by Matra Marconi Space and BAe (now integrated within Airbus Defence and Space) to Inmarsat specifications, [2] for a market which at the time had a design envelope of 1.8-2.5 Tons on the proposed launch vehicles (STS PAM D2 and Ariane 4). Satellite payload power was from 1300 to 2600 W.