Eurostar London–Paris

Board beneath William Barlow’s great blue train shed at St Pancras and minutes later you are racing across the Kent countryside on HS1, Britain’s only dedicated high-speed line. After the brief darkness of the crossing, the train stretches out over the beet plains of Picardy on LGV Nord, running city centre to city centre faster than any airline manages door to door. It is the service that made day-tripping between two capitals ordinary: breakfast by the Thames, lunch on the Left Bank.

Stations

1. 0 kmSt Pancras +12
2. 36 kmEbbsfleet International +3
3. 90 kmAshford International +2
4. 165 kmGare de Calais-Fréthun +1
5. 265 kmLille-Europe +1
6. 490 kmGare du Nord +4

The stations that Wikidata lists as calls of this service, in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.

Along the way

• St Pancras International’s Barlow train shed
• Medway crossing and the Kent Downs
• the Channel Tunnel plunge
• Picardy beet plains on LGV Nord
• Gare du Nord’s neoclassical façade

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2905798: 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
• The operator publishes this line's timetable: Eurostar, a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
• Wikipedia has an article for this line
• See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it

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