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Thalys is a
high-speed rail network built around the high-speed line between
Paris and
Brussels. This track is shared with Eurostar trains that go from Paris or Brussels to London via
Lille and the
Channel Tunnel and with French domestic TGV trains. The system uses two models of trains, the
SNCF TGV Thalys PBA and the
SNCF TGV Thalys PBKA, which both belong to the
TGV (
train à grande vitesse) family of high-speed trains built by Alstom in France, although they are not identical to domestic TGV sets.
Beyond
Brussels, the main cities Thalys trains reach are Antwerp, The Hague, Rotterdam, Amsterdam,
Liège (city), Aachen and Cologne. Trains to these destinations run partly on dedicated high-speed tracks (some of which are yet to be built), and partly on older tracks shared with normal-speed trains. Plans to continue the line past Cologne to
Frankfurt had to be abandoned because of the power the Thalys trainsets generate when operating under the 15 kV voltage system used in Germany is insufficient for operation on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.
Travel time from Brussels (Bruxelles Gare du Midi / Brussel-Zuid railway station) to Paris (
Gare du Nord) is normally 1 hour, 22 minutes, for a distance of approximately 1 E5 m kilometre. Peak speed is 300 km/h on a dedicated high-speed railway track.
The LGV (
ligne à grande vitesse) link with Charles de Gaulle airport allowed Air France to withdraw its air service between Paris and Brussels; instead, Air France books seats on Thalys trains. Thalys has been given the
IATA designator 2H. This is used in conjunction with American Airlines and Northwest Airlines. American Airlines has a Code sharing agreement with Thalys for rail service from Charles de Gaulle airport to Brussels-South. The airline alliance
SkyTeam also has a codesharing agreement with Thalys for rail service from Schiphol International Airport Amsterdam to Antwerp's Berchem Station and Brussels-South.
See also
External links
- Thalys.com Thalys official PC site
- Thalys.mobi Thalys official Mobile site
Thalys is a high-speed rail network built around the high-speed line between Paris and
Brussels. This track is shared with
Eurostar trains that go from Paris or Brussels to
London via
Lille and the Channel Tunnel and with French domestic TGV trains. The system uses two models of trains, the SNCF TGV Thalys PBA and the
SNCF TGV Thalys PBKA, which both belong to the
TGV (
train à grande vitesse) family of high-speed trains built by Alstom in France, although they are not identical to domestic TGV sets.
Beyond Brussels, the main cities Thalys trains reach are
Antwerp, The Hague,
Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Liège (city),
Aachen and
Cologne. Trains to these destinations run partly on dedicated high-speed tracks (some of which are yet to be built), and partly on older tracks shared with normal-speed trains. Plans to continue the line past Cologne to Frankfurt had to be abandoned because of the power the Thalys trainsets generate when operating under the 15 kV voltage system used in Germany is insufficient for operation on the
Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.
Travel time from Brussels (Bruxelles Gare du Midi / Brussel-Zuid railway station) to Paris (
Gare du Nord) is normally 1 hour, 22 minutes, for a distance of approximately 1 E5 m
kilometre. Peak speed is 300 km/h on a dedicated high-speed railway track.
The
LGV (
ligne à grande vitesse) link with
Charles de Gaulle airport allowed
Air France to withdraw its air service between Paris and Brussels; instead, Air France books seats on Thalys trains. Thalys has been given the
IATA designator 2H. This is used in conjunction with
American Airlines and Northwest Airlines. American Airlines has a
Code sharing agreement with Thalys for rail service from Charles de Gaulle airport to Brussels-South. The
airline alliance SkyTeam also has a codesharing agreement with Thalys for rail service from
Schiphol International Airport Amsterdam to Antwerp's Berchem Station and Brussels-South.
See also
External links
- Thalys.com Thalys official PC site
- Thalys.mobi Thalys official Mobile site
