High speed trains on High Speed One! 26/05/14
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 พ.ค. 2014
- Currently Britain's only High Speed railway, High Speed One has become one of the most important arteries for transport between the UK and Continental Europe, with trains running along this route at an almost uninterrupted 186mph as far as the Channel Tunnel portal at Cheriton.
Originally, a high speed line was intended to open with the tunnel in 1994, running through Southern England to London Victoria, but this was overruled and thus a large station at Waterloo was constructed with no segregated route for Class 373 sets to work on, using traditional commuter railways that would often result in these high speed expresses being held up by Network Southeast units.
Proposals for High Speed One began in the late 1990's, and the go ahead was given in 1996 under the Channel Tunnel Rail Link Act. Construction began 2001, and by 2003 the first section of the route was operational between the Channel Tunnel and Fawkham Junction in Northern Kent, thus allowing Eurostar sets to run at 186mph for the first 46 miles before returning to the traditional railways at Longfield on the Chatham Mainline, using the long closed line to Gravesend.
Eventually in 2007, the second section of the route the final 39 miles of the route to St Pancras International via Ebbsfleet and Stratford was completed, and opened on the 14th November 2007, with the simultaneous closure of Waterloo International. Third Rail running gear was promptly removed from Class 373 Eurostar sets, and now trains could run at 186mph pretty much from Terminus to Terminus, with the exception of the 100mph limit through the Channel Tunnel itself, reducing journey times by the best part of 40 minutes, with Paris now 2 hours and 15 minutes, and Brussels 1 hour and 51 minutes.
The rolling stock used is primarily Class 373 Eurostar sets that were built in 1993 and are operated primarily by Eurostar, although former GNER Regional Eurostar sets are operated in France. At a length of 1,270 feet and consisting of 18 cars, these are the longest passenger trains operating in Britain.
Also working the route are Class 395 Javelin units operated by Southeastern trains from St Pancras to Margate, Gillingham, Dover, Ashford and Canterbury. Built by Hitachi of Japan in 2009, these units operate at up to 140mph on High Speed One, and have dual-voltage gear to allow running on both overhead and third rail systems.
The location we film at is Rainham in Essex on the flood plain of the River Thames between Dagenham and Dartford, where trains on High Speed One are near enough at their top speeds, the Javelin units at 140mph, and the Eurostar sets nearing 170 to 180mph. At this point the route runs parallel to the London, Tilbury and Southend line, operated by National Express c2c Class 357 electrostar units on trains from Barking to Grays.
Although the weather wasn't being kind, it did result in some spectacular spray effects from the passing trains as they raced towards their respective destinations.
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Whenever a Eurostar went past the speakers I have made my desk vibrate lol
What a fast monster!
Certainly not sitting around! :D
I went on the new Eurostar to Paris Nord
Those electrostars look the same as turbostars....
Both part of the same family
Excellent video. Love the sound the original Eurostar units make.
When I was young, I saw the Eurostar and I thought, how the heck do you hold all those carriages
Also nice vid, you earned a sub
Well that was different, dont get to seeing these fast trains, so thank you
Thank you very much! :D
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Impressive speed from these Eurostar units Ruairidh! Any idea if they were at full speed as they passed you? Also what were the shorter units called? Thanks. Ken
Thank you very much Ken, at that point the Class 395's (the shorter units) were doing about 140mph, and the Eurostars were coming up to 170mph :)
Ruairidh MacVeigh
Firstly thankyou for a fantastic video, the best one of HS1 on youtube. I drive trains and just have a couple of queries; I really don't think the class 395's are going anywhere near 140mph more like 100mph and the Eurostar units were pushing 130mph maximum, no where near 170. Have you got any evidence of the speed they are doing? Because apart from about 50 miles of track in the UK it's all restricted ti 125mph, admittedly this section of high speed rail could be included in that 50 miles, however I don't think it is. As a driver you are taught timing gaps between fixed points for signalling purposes and stuff, that is how I have calculated the speed. I'm not trying to start an argument or be difficult, and i'd be happy to be proven wrong. Thanks again for great videos.
Jack Bauer Hi mate HS1 speed limits as follows : St Pancras to Southfleet Junction (just East of Ebbsfleet) - 230 kph (143 mph). Southfleet Junction to Channel Tunnel - 300 kph (186 mph) - except passing through Ashford on the flyover where its restricted to 270 kph (168 mph). Note these are speed limits and the speeds trains attain are affected by gradients in this case up to 1 in 40.
So the speed limit here at this location is 225 kph (140 mph) for the Javelin and 230 kph (143 mph) for the Eurostar.
Nice vid
Thank you! :D
I’ve never seen a Javelin with double doors
Now this is the kind of infrastructure the U.S needs
bmp456 Invest in Maglev mate you have the technology money and space. This comical shambles is a waste of time trust me, the governments argument FOR it is that is will generate revenue and local economies.................... just like it has for the South East of the UK! NOT! Both Network South East and Eurostar have had public money bailouts to keep them afloat and they are STILL in arrears! Local Kent towns and cites only benefit from noise pollution interrupted sleep and high taxes to pay for it.
Great video! Is Rainham a relatively safe place to do filming? Just wondered as its on my list of places to film at for the next instalment of my Trains at Speed series. Thanks, Andrew
In my opinion it's better to film at Dagenham dock, becuase the station is parallel of the hs1
Where were you?
not that fast but still nice vid
Japanese Hitachi units and cars.
Boring, overpriced, cattle trucks, driven by Robots. And if speed is the only thing that impresses you, stay in Kindergarten.