{"id":154,"date":"2007-09-04T15:28:14","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T15:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-finance-zone.co.uk\/uncategorized\/rock-n-roll-from-paris-to-london\/"},"modified":"2007-09-04T15:28:14","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T15:28:14","slug":"rock-n-roll-from-paris-to-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/09\/04\/rock-n-roll-from-paris-to-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll from Paris to London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><font size=\"2\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/font><\/strong>On the platform at Paris Gare du Nord there was a brass band and free champagne, and more camera crews than you could count. Eurostar departures aren&#8217;t normally like this, but then this was no ordinary departure.<\/p>\n<p><!-- S IIMA --><\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"203\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Eurostar train\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/44095000\/jpg\/_44095704_eurostararrives_pa.jpg\" width=\"203\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"cap\">A record-setting Eurostar train arrives triumphantly at St Pancras<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><!-- E IIMA --><\/p>\n<p>High speed trains are nothing new in France, but they&#8217;re still a novelty in the UK where the first high speed line, across Kent, opened in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Since then Eurostar trains travelling to and from the Channel Tunnel have been able to travel lickety-spit at a notional top speed of 186mph, or 300 kilometres per hour, to a point just south of the Thames.<\/p>\n<p>But then they have to slow right down to meander through south London on conventional train lines to Waterloo station.<\/p>\n<p>The inaugural special has been laid on to take the first passengers &#8211; journalists and VIPs &#8211; from Paris to the new London terminus at St Pancras on high speed lines the entire way.<\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;s no hanging about. Departing a minute earlier than advertised, at 1043 Paris time, the driver really puts his foot down.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere north of Paris, travelling across the flat plain of northern France, we hit 202mph &#8211; 320km\/h<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0On the platform at Paris Gare du Nord there was a brass band and free champagne, and more camera crews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}