On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:12:26 -0800, Furze Platt
wrote:
>Queen Opens High Speed Rail Link
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>The French had their high-speed Channel Tunnel link ready in 1993 - a
>year before the tunnel was officially opened - while the Belgians
>completed their link in the late 1990s.
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>The UK, however, spent years dithering over the cost and route of its
>link. It meant Eurostar trains could only reach their ultimate 186mph
>speed in France and Belgium, while comparatively crawling through
>south London and Kent.
Is the French Eurostar track from Paris to Lille different from
the TGV track? If not, France had it easy since Eurostar only
require trackage from Lille to Calais, which didn't involve
routing through the sort of major metropolitan area the Brit
version had to pass through.
I assume, also, that the Belgian track from Lille to Brussels is
both TGV and Eurostar
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