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British Rail Class 373

Index British Rail Class 373

The British Rail Class 373 or TGV TMST train is a French designed and built electric multiple unit that operate Eurostar high speed rail services from London to France and Belgium via the Channel Tunnel, part of the TGV family, it has a smaller cross-section to fit the smaller loading gauge in Britain, was originally able to operate on the UK third rail network and it has extensive fireproofing in case of fire in the tunnel. [1]

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Alstom

Alstom is a French multinational company operating worldwide in rail transport markets, active in the fields of passenger transportation, signalling and locomotives, with products including the AGV, TGV, Eurostar, and Pendolino high-speed trains, in addition to suburban, regional and metro trains, and Citadis trams.

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Brecknell Willis high speed pantograph

The Brecknell Willis High Speed Pantograph is one of the four standard pantographs in use on British railway locomotives and multiple units.

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British electric multiple units

An electric multiple unit (EMU) is an electric train capable of operating in multiple with other EMUs that does not have a separate locomotive, typically passenger trains with accommodation in every vehicle and a driving position at each end.

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British Rail brand names

British Rail was the brand image of the nationalised railway owner and operator in Great Britain, the British Railways Board, used from 1965 until its breakup and sell-off from 1993 onwards.

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British Rail Class 37

The British Rail Class 37 is a diesel-electric locomotive.

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British Rail Class 374

The Class 374 electric multiple unit high speed train, branded as Eurostar e320, provide Eurostar services through the Channel Tunnel to serve destinations beyond the core routes to Paris and Brussels.

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British Rail Class 438

The British Rail TC (Trailer Control) multiple units were unpowered fixed formations of 3 or 4 carriages with a driving position at each end of the set, converted by BR's BREL York Works from locomotive-hauled Mark 1 carriages in 1966-1967 and 1974.

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British Rail Class 73

The British Rail Class 73 is a British electro-diesel locomotive.

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British Rail Class 89

The Class 89 was a prototype design for an electric locomotive.

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British Rail Class 91

The British Rail Class 91 is a class of, electric locomotives ordered as a component of the East Coast Main Line modernisation and electrification programme of the late 1980s.

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British railway rolling stock

This is a list of all types of rolling stock used in passenger services in the United Kingdom.

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Channel Tunnel

The Channel Tunnel (Le tunnel sous la Manche; also nicknamed the Chunnel) is a rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent, in the United Kingdom, with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, near Calais in northern France, beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.

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Engine power

Engine power or horsepower is the maximum power that an engine can put out.

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Enterprise (train service)

| Enterprise is the cross-border inter-city train service between in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland, jointly operated by Iarnród Éireann (IE) and NI Railways (NIR).

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European Rail Traffic Management System

The European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) is the system of standards for management and interoperation of signalling for railways by the European Union (EU).

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Eurostar

Eurostar is a high-speed railway service connecting London with Amsterdam, Avignon, Brussels, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Paris and Rotterdam.

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Eurostar (disambiguation)

Eurostar may refer to.

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Eurostar International Limited

Eurostar International Limited Eurostar International Limited formerly Eurostar (UK) Limited formerly European Passenger Services Limited (EIL) is the railway company operating the international Eurostar train services between London, Paris and Brussels via the Channel Tunnel.

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Fawkham Junction

Fawkham Junction is a railway junction that currently connects High Speed 1 with the Kent Rail Network.

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Gare de Bourg-Saint-Maurice

Bourg-Saint-Maurice is a railway station in Bourg-Saint-Maurice, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in south-east France.

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Great North Eastern Railway

Great North Eastern Railway, often referred to as GNER, was a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by Sea Containers that operated the InterCity East Coast franchise from April 1996 until December 2007, when Sea Containers was stripped of the franchise due to poor financial management.

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High Speed 1

High Speed 1 (HS1), legally the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL), is a high-speed railway between London and the United Kingdom end of the Channel Tunnel.

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High Speed 2

High Speed 2 (HS2) is a planned high-speed railway in the United Kingdom, directly linking London, Birmingham, the East Midlands, Leeds and Manchester.

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High-speed rail in Europe

High-speed rail is emerging in Europe as an increasingly popular and efficient means of transport.

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High-speed rail in France

The first French high-speed rail line opened in 1981, between Paris's and Lyon's suburbs.

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High-speed rail in the United Kingdom

Category:Proposed_railway_lines_in_Scotland The international definition of high-speed rail encompasses lines with a top speed of at least and existing lines with a top speed of around.

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History of rail transport in Great Britain 1995 to date

This article is part of a series on the History of rail transport in Great Britain The period from 1995 covers the history of rail transport in Great Britain following the privatisation of British Rail.

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HSL 1

The HSL 1 (Ligne à Grande Vitesse (LGV) 1, Hogesnelheidslijn 1, High-Speed Line 1) is a high-speed rail line which connects Brussels, Belgium, with the LGV Nord at the Belgium–France border.

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Kingsbury railway station

Kingsbury railway station was a railway station which served the village of Kingsbury in Warwickshire, England.

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LGV Nord

The LGV Nord (Ligne à Grande Vitesse) is a French -long high-speed rail line, opened in 1993, that connects Paris to the Belgian border and the Channel Tunnel via Lille.

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List of British Rail electric multiple unit classes

This page lists every electric-powered multiple unit allocated a TOPS classification or used on the mainline network since 1948 (i.e. British Railways and post-privatisation).

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List of high-speed trains

The following is a list of high-speed trains, limited to conventional wheeled trains, that have been, are, or will be in commercial service.

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List of rolling stock items in the UK National Collection

The UK National Collection is a collection of around 280 historic rail vehicles (predominantly of British origin).

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List of SNCF classes

List of locomotive and multiple unit classes of SNCF.

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List of streamlined trainsets

The following trainsets are or were streamliners.

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List of TGV accidents

TGV accidents are events involving TGV trains which have harmful consequences, such as injury to people or damage to trains, or derailments.

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Longest trains

The length of a train, including the longest trains, may be measured in number of wagons (for bulk loads such as coal and iron ore) or in metres for general freight.

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Metro Cammell

The Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company (MCCW) was an English manufacturer of railway carriages and wagons, based in Saltley and subsequently Washwood Heath in Birmingham.

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Nightstar (train)

The Nightstar was a proposed overnight sleeper service from various parts of United Kingdom to continental Europe, via the Channel Tunnel.

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North Pole depot

North Pole Train Maintenance Centre is a train maintenance site in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, West London partially redeveloped by Hitachi Rail Europe from 2013 as a maintenance site for Intercity Express Programme trains or Intercity Express Trains.

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Power-to-weight ratio

Power-to-weight ratio (or specific power or power-to-mass ratio) is a calculation commonly applied to engines and mobile power sources to enable the comparison of one unit or design to another.

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Rail transport in France

Rail transport in France is operated mostly by SNCF, the French national railway company.

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Rail transport in Great Britain

The railway system in Great Britain is the oldest in the world.

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Railfest

Railfest (or Railway Festival) is a term used by railway museums and heritage railways around the world on open days and special annual events.

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Regional Eurostar

Regional Eurostar was the name given to plans to operate Eurostar train services from Paris and Brussels to locations in the United Kingdom beyond London.

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SNCF

The Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF, "French National Railway Company") is France's national state-owned railway company.

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SNCF Class BB 10003

The locomotive SNCF BB 10003 was an experimental prototype locomotive converted from a SNCF BB 15000 unit and used to develop the use of asynchronous induction traction motors.

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SNCF TGV Duplex

The TGV Duplex is a French high-speed train of the TGV family, manufactured by Alstom, and operated by the French national railway company SNCF.

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SNCF TGV POS

The TGV POS is a TGV train built by French manufacturer Alstom which is operated by the French national rail company, the SNCF, in France's high-speed rail lines.

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St Pancras railway station

St Pancras railway station, also known as London St Pancras and officially since 2007 as St Pancras International, is a central London railway terminus located on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden.

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TGV

The TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse, "high-speed train") is France's intercity high-speed rail service, operated by the SNCF, the state-owned national rail operator.

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Third rail

A third rail is a method of providing electric power to a railway locomotive or train, through a semi-continuous rigid conductor placed alongside or between the rails of a railway track.

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Trains in the Netherlands

The following are current and former trains in the Netherlands.

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Transmission Voie-Machine

Transmission Voie-Machine (TVM, English: track-to-train transmission) is a form of in-cab signalling originally deployed in France and used on high-speed railway lines.

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Waterloo International railway station

Waterloo International station was the London terminus of the Eurostar international rail service from its opening on 14 November 1994 until it closed on 13 November 2007 when it was replaced by St Pancras as the terminal for international rail services.

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Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power.

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1990s

The 1990s (pronounced "nineteen-nineties" and abbreviated as the "Nineties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1990, and ended on December 31, 1999.

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21st-century modernisation of the Great Western main line

Network Rail plans to spend £5 billion on modernising the Great Western main line, its South Wales branch and other associated lines.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_373

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