On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:25:18 +0100, Paul Scott wrote:

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On Jul 24, 10:58 am, "Paul Scott"
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Reminder - bookings for Eurostar from St Pancras are now available via
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www.eurostar.com

Paul

The first train from London to Paris on 14 Nov is the 12:30 - I
always suspected that a truly 'overnight' move from Waterloo would be
a little ambitious to say the least.

Is that definite? If so I have a £59 day return on the first public service
out of St Pancras International

I'm afraid there appears to be an 11:06 to Brussels so you aren't
on the first public service.

David

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On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:25:18 +0100, Paul Scott wrote:

"EE507" wrote in message
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On Jul 24, 10:58 am, "Paul Scott"
wrote:
Reminder - bookings for Eurostar from St Pancras are now available via
their
website

www.eurostar.com

Paul

The first train from London to Paris on 14 Nov is the 12:30 - I
always suspected that a truly 'overnight' move from Waterloo would be
a little ambitious to say the least.

Is that definite? If so I have a £59 day return on the first public
service
out of St Pancras International

I'm afraid there appears to be an 11:06 to Brussels so you aren't
on the first public service.


That's ok, I always think of it as a London to Paris route with a siding
anyway...

Paul

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:37:32 +0100 someone who may be Roland Perry
wrote this:-

Is there any prospect of through services yet beyond London?

Not until the Daily Mail is satisfied that we have found a way to deal
with our porous borders.

Probably. In other words never.


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David Hansen, Edinburgh
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:36:23 +0100, Sam Wilson
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"Paul Scott" wrote:

Reminder - bookings for Eurostar from St Pancras are now available via their
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www.eurostar.com

Double page spread in the Independent this morning showing a picture of
not-quite-completed StP from track level. I guess the other papers have
similar but I haven't seen them yet.

Guardian has a double-page of the DLR boring machine broken through
at Woolwich Arsenal -- haven't found a link on their site yet.

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. ] Room 40-1-B12, CERN

"Paul Scott" wrote in message
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I'm afraid there appears to be an 11:06 to Brussels so you aren't
on the first public service.


That's ok, I always think of it as a London to Paris route with a siding
anyway...


Strange that. I think of it as a route linking UK with Brussels en route to
heart of Europe, plus a branch serving somewhere of very limited interest.

David (Who has yet to do Waterloo - Paris, despite several trips each year
to Brussels.)

Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote:
Guardian has a double-page of the DLR boring machine broken through
at Woolwich Arsenal -- haven't found a link on their site yet.

Once the DLR is open at Woolwich Arsenal, is there going to be an
increase in National Rail services calling there?

If you're going to/from Kent, at what point along the DLR Woolwich
branch will it be quicker to go via the DLR and change at Woolwich,
rather than go via Canary Wharf and change at Greenwich on NR?

"Mark Morton" wrote

Once the DLR is open at Woolwich Arsenal, is there going to be an
increase in National Rail services calling there?

All trains through Woolwich Arsenal call there already, and I don't think
there's much scope for an increase in frequency.

Peter

On 24 Jul, 12:28, PhilD wrote:
Only if they can be modified to comply with Channel Tunnel safety
standards, plus whatever signalling systems are necessary. This is
not easy, so it would probably be easier to build new.

How different are these standards to those required for the rail
tunnels in the alps?

B2003

On Jul 24, 5:14 pm, Mark Morton wrote:
Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote:

Guardian has a double-page of the DLR boring machine broken through
at Woolwich Arsenal -- haven't found a link on their site yet.

Once the DLR is open at Woolwich Arsenal, is there going to be an
increase in National Rail services calling there?

If you're going to/from Kent, at what point along the DLR Woolwich
branch will it be quicker to go via the DLR and change at Woolwich,
rather than go via Canary Wharf and change at Greenwich on NR?

From anywhere between Bank and King George V. The DLR website gives
Woolwich Arsenal to Bank as 27 minutes, while Greenwich to Bank is 22
minutes; and the train takes 11 - 13 minutes to get from Greenwich to
Woolwich.You'll only be better going via Greenwich if you're
travelling from stations between Pudding Mill Lane and Lewisham.

On Jul 24, 11:44 am, Boltar wrote:

How different are these standards to those required for the rail
tunnels in the alps?


Has been discussed ad nauseam in uk.railway over the last 10 years.

Its not so much what the rules are ... but who made them.

--
Nick