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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.
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.
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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).
Train passenger coaches can have different seating layouts, based on the coach's maximum seating capacity, that determine the placement of the train seats, space for walking and legroom for the passengers. In a corridor coach there are several compartments with generally two times three seats facing each other.
In November 2010, LCR sold a 30-year concession to operate HS1 to a Canadian consortium of Borealis Infrastructure and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan for £2.1bn. [12] [13] EIL then paid access charges to the consortium to operate Eurostar trains on HS1. On 4 December 2013, the UK Government announced it was looking to sell LCR's 40% stake in EIL.
The route diagram templates encompass a main container, named {}. This system provides a uniform layout for route-map infoboxes, mainly for railway lines but also for other modes of transport such as waterways. The more efficient {} template has now replaced {} and its auxiliary templates, many of which started with "BS-".
The British Rail Class 374, also referred to as the Eurostar e320, is a type of electric multiple unit passenger train used on Eurostar services through the Channel Tunnel to serve destinations beyond the core routes to Paris and Brussels. They began to run passenger services in November 2015. [2]