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Eurostar's punctuality has fluctuated from year to year, but usually remains over 90%; [112] in the first quarter of 1999, 89% of services operated were on time, and in the second quarter it reached 92%. [113] Eurostar's best punctuality record was 97.35%, between 16 and 22 August 2004. [5] In 2006, it was 92.7%, [114] and in 2007, 91.5% were ...
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).
Eurostar was previously operated by three separate companies in Belgium, France and the United Kingdom, but this structure was replaced by EIL as a new single management company on 1 September 2010. EIL is owned by Eurostar Group. [3] Eurostar International is the largest customer of Getlink, the owner of the Channel Tunnel.
The word CAT is making back-to-back crossword appearances, as we also saw it yesterday. Willow OLE (18D: Copa Mundial cheer) "Copa Mundial" is Spanish for "World Cup."
30 May 1936: The DRG 05-002 set an unbroken start-stop speed record for steam locomotives. During the return run from a 190-kilometre-per-hour (120 mph) test on the Berlin-Hamburg route it did the ~113 kilometres (70 miles) from Wittenberg to a signal stop before Berlin-Spandau in 48 min 32 s, meaning 139.4 km/h (86.6 mph) average between start ...
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As a consequence, Eurostar did receive its first unit in 2014 for presentation but operation could only start a year later. [16] At the presentation of the first train in London in November 2014, Eurostar announced that they had ordered seven additional train sets, and that the first e320 service would be at the end of 2015. [17]
Crossword-like puzzles, for example Double Diamond Puzzles, appeared in the magazine St. Nicholas, published since 1873. [31] Another crossword puzzle appeared on September 14, 1890, in the Italian magazine Il Secolo Illustrato della Domenica. It was designed by Giuseppe Airoldi and titled "Per passare il tempo" ("To pass the time"). Airoldi's ...