Eurostar goes zoom

Eurostar runs between Paris and London via the tunnel under the English Channel. 186 mph. 'Nuff said.

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• railroad
• train
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• Eurostar

[domcovkid]

thats one of the SNCF eurostars so does not actually go under the channel to London and only operates in france.

[adcarswell]

I stand corrected.

[TheWadge]

I think Eurostar started off with loads of trains - the 3 capitals ones which go from London to France and Belgium, and some shorter ones called North of London which were to be used to go from Liverpool, Birmingham etc. to Europe. But Eurostar never bothered with these ones in the end so have been selling or loaning them out. Some on the Paris - Lille line. They also had sleeper trains which were never used and are now in Canada but breaking down all the time cos of the cold.

[mastersgta1]

@MrZkr123

In a sense that they all have wheels?

[MegaChipmuncs123123]

@domcovkid yeah i saw a sign that had the SNCF

[USofMilitaryPower94]

@justandy333 Actually the TGV can hit 225mph in regular service on certain lines.

[glitch4465]

@JuiceJackNut too short too

[railtravelmanager]

yes indeed SNCF uses 4 tot 6 ex Eurostar trainsets on interior French High Speed services Paris-Lille-Paris, on the trainset you can see SNCF logo's and standard class in green and first Class in red, other logo's than on the cross channel Eurostar services Paris-London-Paris and Brussels-Lille-London-Lille-Br­ussels services

[railotaku]

@JuiceJackNut Voltages and signalling, the existing powercars have no room for any more kit - the Velaros will allow operation on the Dutch (1500V DC) and German (15kV 16.33Hz) networks,

[JuiceJackNut]

@domcovkid So why is Eurostar buying Siemens Velaros instead of taking back some of these?

[Coralle11]

i pulled it

[railotaku]

@tentacle85 no difference. Just more Eurostars were built then were required (partly because it's taken time for the traffic to grow, and partly for political reasons with proposed North of London services), SNCF lease some spare sets from the main Eurostar operation to give extra capacity on LGV Nord between Lille and Paris

[railotaku]

@justandy333 Nope - China now runs at 225mph (using derivitives of the German ICE3), Fastest in Europe is the LGV Est with ICEs and TGVs doing 205mph. Spain hopes to get 225mph too when they can solve the problems of Ballast Throwing.