Waterloo international- old Eurostar route

[GW43125]

Just found this thread, many memories of 6 year old me at Waterloo watching them go in/out. Oh to have that back. (and not that I'm biased or anything that Waterloo Int'l would be easier for me).

mechanical signalling at Canterbury East (and still is at Deal), with which many Eurostar drivers would not have been familiar.

not entirely related but did remind me, in one of the early video125s of the Chunnel, the train pops out of the tunnel and a couple of minutes later is met with a manned, gated level crossing! Made me chuckle a bit.

Fun as it was, I'm glad we don't have to do the south London stagger anymore.

 

[stuu]

That was run by Alphaline and (the erstwhile Wales &West franchise which was later broken up to form parts of TfW and Greater Western) with a class 158.

Did the service run via Bath and Salisbury? Or was that the route the Nightstar would have taken?

 

[D6130]

not entirely related but did remind me, in one of the early video125s of the Chunnel, the train pops out of the tunnel and a couple of minutes later is met with a manned, gated level crossing! Made me chuckle a bit.

Ah, yes - Willesborough Crossing on the outskirts of Ashford....now replaced by an overbridge, IIRC.

 

[GW43125]

Ah, yes - Willesborough Crossing on the outskirts of Ashford....now replaced by an overbridge, IIRC.

Thanks for that, been trying (without success) to work out where it was!

 

[AndyPJG]

Did the service run via Bath and Salisbury? Or was that the route the Nightstar would have taken?

Cardiff, Bristol TM, Westbury, Salisbury, Basingstoke, Woking to Waterloo. I believe c1997/8? (passed it a couple of times on commute home when working in CTRL offices)

 

[Sad Sprinter]

Just found this thread, many memories of 6 year old me at Waterloo watching them go in/out. Oh to have that back. (and not that I'm biased or anything that Waterloo Int'l would be easier for me).

not entirely related but did remind me, in one of the early video125s of the Chunnel, the train pops out of the tunnel and a couple of minutes later is met with a manned, gated level crossing! Made me chuckle a bit.

Fun as it was, I'm glad we don't have to do the south London stagger anymore.

Same. And going past North Pole as well, always chose a seat on the left side of a train from Paddington to look at them.

Cardiff, Bristol TM, Westbury, Salisbury, Basingstoke, Woking to Waterloo. I believe c1997/8? (passed it a couple of times on commute home when working in CTRL offices)

Remember that train, used to love spotting it with my Mum. Interestingly I went to Cardiff a lot as a child but my parents absolutely refused to use it . I remember on one occasion my dad being mistakenly sold tickets from London to card for that were via Clapham junction. He got them replaced

 

[Rescars]

Cardiff, Bristol TM, Westbury, Salisbury, Basingstoke, Woking to Waterloo. I believe c1997/8? (passed it a couple of times on commute home when working in CTRL offices)

That's the route I experienced. Made a pleasant change from the GWML!

 

[Taunton]

not entirely related but did remind me, in one of the early video125s of the Chunnel, the train pops out of the tunnel and a couple of minutes later is met with a manned, gated level crossing!

If I remember correctly that crossing between Sellinge and Ashford in early Eurostar times not only was still manned, but the gates were swung, one at a time, by hand rather than by mechanism.

 

[D6130]

If I remember correctly that crossing between Sellinge and Ashford in early Eurostar times not only was still manned, but the gates were swung, one at a time, by hand rather than by mechanism.

That's correct....but I think you mean between Sevington and Ashford. Selling is between Faversham and Canterbury East.

 

[eastwestdivide]

And Sellindge is just W of Westenhanger. Was that the one you meant? Bl@*!y placenames!