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bellinghman ([personal profile] bellinghman) wrote2010-10-19 10:28 am
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ICE in London

There's an ICE at St Pancras today.

They are such pretty trains.

(BBC article here)
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[identity profile] swisstone.livejournal.com 2010-10-19 09:59 am (UTC)(link)
I approve, though 2013 is a bit late - we could have done with this on Saturday, as it would cut out a change at Brussels and give us more time in Cologne.

[identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com 2010-10-19 10:40 am (UTC)(link)
More time in Koeln is always good.

[identity profile] pir.livejournal.com 2010-10-19 10:20 am (UTC)(link)
If I wasn't oncall today I might have gone to see it...

[identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com 2010-10-19 10:39 am (UTC)(link)
They run on the Rhine route past Freiburg down to Basel. They're definitely one of my favourite train sets.
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[personal profile] rmc28 2010-10-19 10:28 am (UTC)(link)
London to Amsterdam! Woohoo :)

Edited to add: even better, looks like they'll stop at Rotterdam (more convenient for us visting most of our Dutch friends), and a journey time of 4 hours is close to competitive with flying.
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[identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com 2010-10-19 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
That's the London to Rotterdam part being 3 hours.

I wouldn't be surprised to find out that that's actually as fast as you could make it, centre to centre.
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