High-speed route
Eurostar London–Brussels
London → Brussels · England · France · Belgium
The original Channel Tunnel service to the EU capital takes St Pancras to Bruxelles-Midi in under two hours, city centre to city centre.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 12109814 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 6 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Eurostar: our line passes within 50 m of every station train 7015400 (Brussels-London FAST–Calais omitted) calls at (the operator publishes no route geometry to compare)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Eurostar?
The Eurostar runs 373 km from London to Brussels. It runs through England, France and Belgium.
How long does the Eurostar take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 1 h 57 min for the 373 km. That is an average of 191 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 300 km/h.
Who runs the Eurostar?
Eurostar, with e320, Class 374.
How old is the Eurostar?
The line has been in service since 1994. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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