Autumn in Paris, 2009
On November 14th 2007, Eurostar launched services from its new London station at St Pancras International, with the completion of the second section of the UK's first high-speed line, High Speed 1. Journey times have fallen with London-Paris taking 2 hours 15 minutes, London-Brussels 1 hour 51 minutes and London-Lille just 1 hour 20 minutes.
Eurostar trains have the capacity to operate at a maximum speed of 186 miles per hour or 300 km per hour on the high speed line from London to Dover and the high speed lines in France and Belgium.
On 30 July 2003, Eurostar broke the UK rail speed record with a test train reaching 208.0 miles per hour or 334.7 km per hour on the new UK high-speed line.
