Interesting facts about Eurostar trains

• A Eurostar train is 400 metres long and weighs over 800 tonnes.

• An 18 carriage Eurostar can carry up to 770 passengers - double the capacity of a Boeing 747.

• Eurostar currently carries more passengers between London and Paris and London and Brussels per month than all of the airlines combined.

• Eurostar holds the UK train speed record reaching an incredible 208 mph on a test run in July 2003. At this speed the Eurostar was travelling a mile every 17 seconds! The previous speed record was a mere 162 mph.

• With the opening of CTRL in 2003 Eurostar trains now regularly reach 186 mph as they journey to the continent.

• Each Eurostar consumes 1600 KW of power, the equivalent of 20 Formula 1 cars.

• The Eurostar is nearly a quarter of a mile long, making them as long as the Canary Wharf tower is tall!

• Each Eurostar train costs a staggering £24 million!

• In case of an emergency in the Channel Tunnel the trains can be divided in two in order to evacuate passengers in unaffected carriages.

• Eurostar direct services to Disneyland Paris began on the 29th June 1996. The ski train services started on 13th December 1997.