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Thalys (French: ) was a brand name used for high-speed train services between Paris Gare du Nord via Brussels-South to either Amsterdam Centraal or to German cities in the Rhein-Ruhr, including Aachen, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Essen and Dortmund.
Map of main Thalys routes and connections Diagram from Thalys internal report [13] Thalys passenger train 9364 from Amsterdam to Paris crossed the Belgian border to France at approximately 17:45 CEST on 21 August 2015. [14] [15] A 25-year-old Moroccan man named Ayoub El Khazzani emerged from the lavatory room of car No. 12.
The 15:17 to Paris is a 2018 American biographical drama film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood and written by Dorothy Blyskal, based on the 2016 autobiography The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes by Jeffrey E. Stern, Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler, and Alek Skarlatos.
During the ensuing 20 minutes, I assessed the Thalys product. Not worth €1-per-kilometre (except, as in my situation, when desperate). And strangely rooted in the 1980s from a design point of view.
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.
Spencer John Stone (born August 13, 1992) is an American former United States Air Force staff sergeant. [2] In August 2015, Stone, along with friends Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler and three other passengers, as well as an off-duty train driver, while travelling from Amsterdam on a high speed, Paris-bound train, disarmed and subdued a solitary, heavily armed Moroccan terrorist. [3]
The last ten of these triple voltage units are known as Thalys PBA (Paris–Brussels–Amsterdam) sets and were built for Thalys services, now branded as Eurostar. As well as using standard French voltages of 25 kV 50 Hz AC and 1,500 V DC (also used in the Netherlands ), the triple voltage sets can operate under the Belgian and Italian 3,000 V ...
The journey took between 2 hours 8 minutes and 2 hours 30 minutes, while the regular Thalys service takes 1 hour 22 minutes. This is due to the fact that IZY trains used the Paris–Lille railway between Paris and Arras, instead of the high-speed LGV Nord line, allowing Izy to pay lower track fees to SNCF.