The Class 373, Eurostar e300
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Eurostar has begun rolling out newly refurbished trains and it looks like the makeover is on the right track.
The 21-year-old trains are 'unrecognisable' and declared that 'passengers will think it's a brand new train'.
New features include free WiFi, seatback mirrors and glowing drink holders.
Standard class coaches have a brand new colour scheme and a host of new features:
Ergonomically designed reclining seats with a stitched fabric retro feel
Extendable seat cushions
UK and Continental power sockets at every seat
Redesigned tables that fold in and out without the fuss of having to remove belongings first
Repositioned luggage racks inside the coach -that way, passengers can board right away without queuing at the door, and keep luggage close by
New above seat displays to show which seats are free
Touch-free glass doors that open automatically - perfect for when you're carrying luggage or a glass of bubbly from the bar buffet.
New bright white and fresh toilets. Look out for brand new features like touch-free taps and a baby changing table in every second toilet.
Standard Premier has a fresh new colour scheme and a truly intuitive new design.
At every seat there is a power point and USB socket, as well as a mirror, device holder and individual reading light.
Extra storage and a slimline table give passengers space to spread out and work or stretch out and snooze.
Business Premier has been entirely refreshed, with a new colour scheme- we’ve even rolled out the red carpet for you.
Everything from a cupholder to a coat hook and a power point, including a USB socket, is integrated into the seat.
There’s also a mirror, a seat pocket designed to hold a laptop and an individual reading light.
I went to Belgium on a E374 and back to London on a refurbished E373. I actually liked the E373 more than the newer train.
We're just about to go into 2024 and I've just completed High Speed 1 for the first time EVER, and I saw an E300 at St Pancras just before the return journey.
Eurostar has been a goal of mine since I was literally two years old, so to be almost in my twenties and travel on it would be a dream. They're iconic
You have the perfect voice for a train video! I can just see you at the end of a platform with a flask and a notepad....
Bit harsh but I know what you mean, sounds a bit like David Mitchell to me also!
Did you know that the eurostar class 373 actually onced ran on the east coast main line in the early 2000s GNER at the time I'm not kidding
I did
So did i
It had 14 carriages instead of 18
Yep, they were used for not very long due to their high power consumption
XD fake
Great to see one of my pictures here (7:01). It was made in June of July 1993 in La Rochelle. thanks for showing :-)
If you go to the Man in Seat 61 web site, he has had listed a way for you to determine which type of Eurostar train is scheduled to be operated. I used it last year and was delighted to be rewarded with an un-refurbished e300. There will be plenty of time to catch the refurbished e300s, I hope and of course the e320s.
The E300 are running the Disney Express and the service that goes further than Disney once a day.
Class 373 first and best style to date, they should preserve one for prosperity and future railtours.🙂👍
It will be a sad day when the E300's stop running! Bene my favourite train ever since I was young!
Nice video! I have been on the E300 twice. Once back in 1998. I travelled to London for the BeeGees concert at the Wembly stadium. Back than the Eurostar still used the conventional third rail lines to Waterloo. I remember it had to stop and wait very often. It took ages to get to London. But when I returned to London on Eurstar several years ago, it used the HSL1 line into London. I could not beleive how quick we arrived at St. Pancras International! Awsome. Now I am waiting for the direct service from Cologne in Germany. Than I can board at Aachen HBF which is just across the border from here in the s.e. of the Netherlands, where I live.
Eurostar is TGV's younger sister company cuz Eurostar / British class 373 can go through tunnel , the Eurostar E320 was the part of tgv and Eurostar E300 , E300 is longer than E320 , E320 has 2 power cars & 14 carriages
The E320/374 has now power cars as it's made up from 2, 4 car electric multiple units per half set (4 per full set). And 100% the E320 is longer than a E300/TMST.
I’m going to Brussels in march and hope I get a e300 if I’m a lucky person
THIS IS THE VIDEO IVE BEEN WATING FOR 5 YEARS
Video is inaccurate about them being withdrawn between 2020 and 2023, I caught one for the first time ever not too long ago. I was over the moon
Fascinating video and great to have your commentary back again.
I think this is the best looking TGV-style train, after the original of course.
Yay the narrator is back fantastic
Very fascinating documentary
Great video.☺️ I’ll watch this video later.☺️
I can feel the emotion in this video... its beautiful and thoughtful and people around the world should feel this way about trains.
I can see the advantages of articulated sets in derailments, but that doesn't explain the why Amtrak Cascades 501 derailed. In a tunnel or on straight track it stays together. However, on curves, bridges, and curves on bridges, it brings the whole thing down. So articulated sets can actually be dangerous.
I'm glad I have had the pleasure of riding the TGV Transmanche- Class 373 In 2008 London to Belgium and 2010 london to Paris.
Really good video! i learned alot from this!
I was an engineer for Eurostar. I started when they were operating out of Waterloo and left in 2015 after they had been operating on HS1 for 9 years.
Just a couple of minor points: It was an Anglo - French collaboration. Many parts were designed and built in the UK. This was contractual.
Also while it's designation "373" falls into the UK electric multiple unit category, they never work in multiple. They only connect to each other in case of emergency. In this case they fit into a sub class of train with the HST: the never work in multiple formation but can connect to another train of the same type for rescue purposes.
Essentially its a couple of very specialised locomotives with a fixed formation of coaches in between.
I always understood that all Eurostar trains (of either class) technically consist of two electric multiple units coupled back to back.
@@matthewlongstaff3112 sort of yes. Although they're two HALF sets back to back. They're useless on their own.
Thank you very much for the presentation. Well done!
Greetings and all the best for 2019
13:20 I felt exactly the same way 1,5 years ago. I was in brussels, and really hoped for the old set (white/yellow with the brown/grey interior) I really couldnt hold myself when I saw exactly that set on my platform. I made some pictures of it (of course)
I love the class 373
Thank U - very impressive video! I am leaving Paris by Eurostar to London no ES9019!
I wonder what class that will be an e300 or e320 - leaving Paris at 10.13!
Thank u for finding out!
Going from London Brussels ES - leaving London at 15.04 !Wonder the class of Eurostar!!!! Thanks! Bless you all’
There is also a very short KVB section between St Pancras and the start of TVM in tunnel 1 (over the ECML)
Hello you can get the 373 from st pancreas to Marne la Vallee cheesy Marseille st Charles Brussels and Paris
I had yet to ride on one. Either on Eurostar or the sole one on IZY.
Very good.
If you go to marseille or bourg saint moris with the eurostar. There is a 100% chance you get the e300. And also izy thalys has knly 1 train and it is a e300 train so if you book a brussel paris with izy you have a 100% chance to be in 1 !
I don’t know what Eurostar I actually prefer, because I have never been on one before but have seen them in person. There was 12 e320s and 1 e300.
Very informative. Thank you
I much prefer the Class 374 E320s as they are lot quieter, faster and smoother.
Why can’t some of these still to be used on the ECML (London King’s Cross-Leeds & York) as 12-Car. With the Class 800 & Class 801 Azumas working on all routes.
I thought the 373's were originally quad-voltage, using 25kv AC, 3 Kv DC, 1.5 Kv DC and 750 v DC. As Eurostar trains formed of 373's run as far as Avignon, over the French Classic lines, this means taking power from the overhead cateenary at 1.5 Kv DC
Yes it runs on the 1.5kv system too, you can see this at 0:43
All trains were originally tri voltage. Only a small number were fitted with 1.5kV DC equipment for South of France operations. When HS1 services were started, the shoe gear equipment was removed permanently.
@@typhoon-7 So only a small part of trains ran on 1.5 Kv DC, but all had used the third rail system?
@@quuaaarrrk8056 Yes. Originally all were 750dc third rail compliant but only 4 or 6 (long lost memory now) had the 1500v DC pantographs and configured common bloc for south of France running. Now of course all 750dc equipment has been removed. Has been since 2007/2008
Very fascinating 👍
Waterloo Would be proud :,)
Very informative really enjoyed the video
A rail company called IZY has now used the 373 on IZY's routes
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Brilliant video and commentary! Great work!
Just a question, what model pantographs are used on the E300?
Faiveley and Brecknell Willis
Your best chance to guarantee an E300 is to do St Pancras to Disneyland Paris as they always deploy an old E300 for this service.
Go to the national railway museum in York there is a class 373 power car with the pantograph up for no reason why once I saw a class 373 haled 3001 and 3002 for scrap at Kingsbury 😭😭😭
It's the only eurostar to be able to stop at Ashford international apart once a 374 stopped there for test
Couple of things to note
1) You said that you for train was changed at the last minute. That is not true yours was the 11:13 am departure and that service stops at Ashford international which is not not equipped for the 374 so that service was always going to be a E300.
2) Also you said you are unable to book your type of train, that isn't necessarily true either the Disneyland Paris, Marseille-Saint-Charles and Bourg St maurice are run by E300's only. With paris and Brussels you just need a service that stops at Ashford International and you won't get E300 on a Amsterdam service. That is a E320 only service
Thank you so much for letting me know that I was unaware that all the Ashford Stopping services were E300s. I may have looked at the board wrong but I thought we were departing on an E320 and was delighted it was an E300. I mush have been looking at the wrong platform I though we were leaving from Platform 8 rather than 6.
Thank you for letting us know you have some options to choose the E300 as I will love to travel on it again before they disappear.
UPDATE: E320s can now stop at Ashford as they’ve sorted out the electrical equipment.
A Class 373 set was featured in Mr Bean's Holiday film.
1:22. Airplane confirmed!!
You made me laugh 😂
Thumbnail is one at Ashford International
Great video
Andrew Gwilt sorry I got rid of
My iMovie stuff but I don't do train documentaries anymore otherwise I get strikes again
@Andrew Gwilt i don't know, but my imovie stuff was gone. but i have to use my own ones such my trains at, animations and other types
@Andrew Gwilt but you can subscribe to me anyway to cheer you up. But i do train drawings which is a nice idea.
God, I just love your voice. 😁
My friends don't believe that Eurostar is real. They think that it is impossible to travel from London to Paris in 2 hours and 15 mins.
Book them some tickets and let them taste high-speed travel xD
Chef du train. May I have spaghetti with that?
There are 373 like, no one mess this up.
10:37 and if it was a 374 that would have been different
I’m in Amsterdam but I’m on holiday and I live in the uk
mantap keren
200 mph is fast
18 carriages!?😳
Yes 18💪😎
@@ethansaviation267220 if you count the power cars.
Bro just copied the Wikipedia article on the Eurostar E300 *Class 373*.
Class 309
I'm sad next month of 2021 2022 is there extinction I may never see one
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Alsthom good
Siemens bad
Stop showing us to watch the abandoned euro
star or else you will die
The Class 373/E300 still forms the majority of the Eurostar fleet. So it's far from the 'abandoned Eurostar'.
Well he’s not forcing you too
The class 374 are stupid l hate them semen shall scrap them
bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,!!!infinity !!!
373 e300 😃
374 e320 🤮
Isn’t Alstom AGV more suitable for Eurostar instead of Siemens Velaro ? Since AGV is of the same family as that of 373.