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Eurostar London-France
Also see: Eurostar London-Paris-London - a first-hand report
If you saw the film Mission Impossible, you've already seen Europe's "Chunnel" passenger train in action. In that movie, Tom Cruise fended off a helicopter from the Eurostar's roof until the chopper blew up inside the English Channel Tunnel. Most Eurostar trips are less dramatic. More than two dozen high-speed electric trains (based on French TGV designs) connect London with Lille, Paris, Brussels, Avignon, the French Alps, and the Disneyland Paris resort at speeds of up to 300 km/h or 186 mph. Travel time can be as little as 2 hours 17 minutes between London and Paris, or 1 hour 52 minutes on the London-Brussels route. (Trains that stop at Ashford, Lille, and other stations take a few minutes longer.) A handful of London-Brussels trains continue on to Amsterdam. You can also book travel between London and Amsterdam or Rotterdam with train connections in Brussels. For more information on high-speed travel on the Paris-Brussels-Amsterdam or Paris-Brussels-Cologne routes, see our Eurostar (formerly Thalys) article. A few points worth noting:
Travel planning:
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