A brilliant afternoons session spent at Stratford International on High Speed One where we see plenty of services from Southeastern Highspeed and Eurostar.
The station was built in 2006 but for the first 3 years remained closed to the public, it only officially opened in 2009 when Southeastern started using the station for their services operating on High Speed One.
Even though the station is named Stratford International there have been no International trains serving the station, the original plan was for regional Eurostar's to call there for when they travelled further into Britain, but that never happened. At present Eurostar have no plans to call at the station as they see no need as they are 7 minutes outside of St Pancras International, where was hope that other international operators were going to use the station. In 2010 it was hoped that DB would be running trains from Germany into London but these plans were unfortunately abandoned. Time will tell as to whether or not international trains will ever call at this station.
My next station is Mill Hill Broadway on the Midland Mainline.
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18 мар 2023
