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The first Eurostar from England to France
The first Eurostar train left London Waterloo heading for Paris’s Gare Du Nord in November 1994. It was the first scheduled passenger train to travel under the English Channel.
The first Eurostar train left London's Waterloo station heading for the Gare du Nord in Paris in November 1994. It was the first commercial passenger train to travel through the Channel Tunnel which had only been finished a few months earlier. Robert Priston was one of the drivers on that three-hour journey and he has been telling Bethan Head about that day.
Photo: one of the first Eurostar trains. Credit: AFP/Getty Images.
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