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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, a brand for international train services between London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and Cologne; Eurostar International Limited (EIL), the operator of the Eurostar services between London and continental Europe; British Rail Class 373, an electric multiple unit train specially built for providing the Eurostar services to and from London
The thing is: Eurostar is very well known overseas. In the United States when a tourist wants to travel by train in Europe, 50 per cent of them connect to the Eurostar website. They know us very well.
Unofficially, Ring Warriors was the first television show to be broadcast on the Internet. [4] 1997 Companies ShareYourWorld.com, a predecessor to YouTube, is founded by Chase Norlin, and is subsequently shut down in 2001. [5] 1998 Companies
Regional Eurostar was a planned Eurostar train service from Paris and Brussels to locations in the United Kingdom to the north and west of London. While the Channel Tunnel was being planned and constructed in the 1980s, the operation of Eurostar services across Britain was included in the plans.
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 ...
Getlink, formerly Groupe Eurotunnel, is a European public company based in Paris that manages and operates the infrastructure of the Channel Tunnel between France and the United Kingdom, operates the LeShuttle railway service, and earns revenue on other trains that operate through the tunnel (Eurostar passenger and DB Schenker freight).