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Railway lines in the East of England: High Speed 1, East Coast Main Line, London, Tilbury and Southend Railway, Great Eastern Main Line
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Paperback. Books LLC, Wiki Series 2011-06-25.
ISBN 9781156103739
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: High Speed 1, East Coast Main Line, London, Tilbury and Southend Railway, Great Eastern Main Line, Felixstowe Branch Line, Varsity Line, Sunshine Coast Line, East Suffolk Line, Railways in Ely, Abbey Line, Birmingham to Peterborough Line, Aldeburgh Branch Line, Bittern Line, Marston Vale Line, West Anglia Main Line, Breckland Line, Hitchin to Cambridge Line, Ipswich to Ely Line, Gainsborough Line, Hertford East Branch Line, Hertford Loop Line, Wherry Lines, Shenfield to Southend Line, Braintree Branch Line, Fen Line, Crouch Valley Line, Lea Valley Lines, Peterborough to Lincoln Line, Mayflower Line, Ely to Peterborough Line. Excerpt: High Speed 1 (HS1), officially known as the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) and originally as the Continental Main Line (CML), is a 108-kilometre (67 mi) high-speed railway line running from London through Kent to the British end of the Channel Tunnel. The line was built to carry international passenger traffic from the United Kingdom to Continental Europe; additionally it carries domestic passenger traffic to and from towns and cities in Kent, and has the potential to carry Berne gauge freight traffic. The completed line, crossing over the River Medway and underneath the River Thames to London St Pancras railway station, opened on 14 November 2007. The line allows speeds of 230 to 300 kilometres per hour (143 to 186 mph) and cost £5.2 billion to build. There are intermediate stations at Stratford International, Ebbsfleet International and Ashford International. International passenger services are currently provided by Eurostar, with journey times of London St Pancras to Paris Gare du Nord in 2 hours 15 minutes, and St Pancras to Brussels-South in 1 hour 51 minutes, using a fleet of 27 Class 373/1 multi-system trains capable of 300 kilometres per hour (186 mph). Other, competing, passe
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