High Speed Trains at Ebbsfleet International! 16/09/14

If High Speed Trains are your game, you're hard pressed to beat Ebbsfleet International. The station was built and opened to provide this area of South East England with a parkway station to both London and the Continent, and with the construction of a new housing estate around the station the numbers of passengers using this station are expected to increase dramatically. Today the station is served frequently by Southeastern owned Class 395 'Javelin' sets that work into the International station with trains down High Speed One to Margate and Dover Priory, as well as services to Faversham on the Domestic lines that climb away to the east of HS1. The station is also served by Eurostar owned Class 373's, with several services calling there each day. However, more spectacular are the Eurostars that don't stop, but instead blast through the station on their way to and from the Channel Tunnel at speeds of nearly 190mph. Also seen is the newly liveried Class 373 set, a livery that is intended to replace the very tired looking 1994 livery that the Eurostar sets were originally outshopped in, and does bear some resemblance to the former GNER livery that once adorned the Regional Eurostar sets that worked out of London King's Cross. Enjoy!