On 14 Mar, 18:29, thoss wrote:
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 Jack Taylor wrote:





wrote:
Later this year Eurostar is moving from Waterloo to St Panc is there a
new bridge being built across the Thames to accommodate it or is there
some existing line that goes across the river now but is not used.
I only ask because up now I have never seen any services advertised
from Watford and the north direct to stations south of the Thames.

The new line for Eurostar services, known as High Speed 1, comes across Kent
and then over the Thames next to the Queen Elizabeth Bridge at Thurrock,
then running alongside the London, Tilbury and Southend line from Rainham to
Barking, where it enters a tunnel and runs roughly under the North London
line to the King's Cross railway lands, where it emerges to enter St.
Pancras.

There are two other major crossings in London. There is the East London line
tunnel, currently operated by London Underground but which will become part
of the overground network in due course. There is also a railway bridge at
Chelsea Harbour, that carries the West London line from the Willesden area
(with connections from other lines) to the south side of the river, from
where trains can access the Windsor (South West Trains) lines at Clapham
Junction, the Central (Southern) lines at Clapham Junction, the Brixton
lines (Southeastern), plus routes into both Waterloo and Victoria.

There is currently a regular, hourly train service between Watford Junction
and Gatwick Airport using this latter route (sometimes running through to
Brighton). Originally these services used to run to/from Rugby.

Where does Thameslink fit into this?

See my other post - it goes over the Thames at Blackfriars (much of
Blackfriars station is actually on the bridge, and when the Thameslink
Project - new name for Thameslink 2000 - is finished it will have a
South Bank as well as a City exit), then into a tunnel to Farringdon.

And can you confirm that the Eurostar crosses the Thames by bridge?
Paul Terry suggested a tunnel.

Definitely a tunnel. Then it surfaces again, before descending back
into tunnel at Stratford to go (nearly) all the way to St Pancras.

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