If Waterloo train station faces south, and St Pancras faces north,?

Question

Do Euro trains have to negociate a wide curve to get into St Pancras station?

Answer 1

if goes in from da south end u pillock n it goes underground though da thaems idiot

Answer 2

The trains are coming in from Kent which is to the SE. They now take a new High Speed line to go around London to the East crossing the Thames then swinging to run to the West then turn South into St Pancras. The Old Waterloo route was nearly a NE run up to Waterloo.

The New Station will now allow connections to the north which was in the original proposal with Eurostar Trains (already purchased but will never be used as politicians killed off the northern connections) being able to run direct to Glasgow and Edinburgh. It now needs the High Speed Link to built to the North as promised!!!!

Answer 3

Have a look at Google Maps. You can select it as one of the  options on the Google Search box.

Zoom in to north London, find St Pancras and then switch to satellite view. You can follow the course of the new railway line.

Answer 4

The line comes in from East London via the Thames and Kent, so it has nothing to do with Waterloo whatsoever.

Answer 5

No, they are travelling on a completely new line from Kent to London.

Answer 6

There is a right turn curve as you come out of St Pancras then once the line enters the tunnel it travels is a South East route towards the Thames coming out of the unnel for a time at Dagenham. The line then goes into another tunnel under the Thames just South of Lakeside Shopping Centre.

If you was to catch a Eurostar out of Waterloo the train would travel due West for about three miles then it would join the Southbound lines which come from Victoria towards Croydon, then at Brixton it would join the either the line to Bromley South via Beckenham Junction or head throgh Denmark Hill on the Catford Loop line to Bromley South. Once the Eurostar reached Bromley it would then head towards Rochester where it would have to join the Eurostar line that was built as HS1 (Which is the same line from St Pancras).

I hope that my answer has helped.

Julian

Answer 7

I see where you are coming rom, but Eurostar trains now take a different route within Greater London. Whereas they used to stay south of the Thames, they now cross the river in tunnel in the Thamesmead/Docklands area to a new interchange at Stratford on the north bank. The new line then continues north (through what will be the main part of the 2012 Olympic Park), before swinging west and, eventually, south into St. Pancras.