Sources: CTRL; Guardian graphics; main photograph: Dan Chung A12 Route in greater London BLACKHORSE St Pancras junction RD SNARESBROOK Hornsey WALTHAMSTOW Stratford international CENTRAL NEWBURY Thameslink surface line and domestic station, Chadwell Heath A116 PARK East Coast Main Line HIGHGATE set inside excavated Freight connection at North London Line with connection “box” 1.07km long Wanstead Ripple Lane, Dagenham to East Coast Main Line CHADWELL HTH Connection to West New interchange for LEYTONSTONE GOODMAYES Coast Main Line Eurostar and fast south- SEVEN KINGS Channel Tunnel rail line ARCHWAY Stoke Covered bridge feeds Camden east domestic trains. ILFORD is mainly for passengers Newington Links to: mainLeyton line – but some freight could Channel rail link into St Pancras/King's services, Docklands use new line, with loops twin-bore tunnel Cross interchange GOSPEL Light Railway, and WANSTEAD Ilford where faster trains can Midland Main Line feeds passengers Hackney LEYTON OAK London Underground's PARK Manor overtake Channel onwards via: Jubilee and Central lines Park Tunnel London St Pancras international and domestic station, east side -Midland and East HACKNEY Rail Link Gasworks tunnel Coast Main Lines CANONBURY CENTRAL -New Thameslink hub KENTISH Islington station Camden TOWN Thameslink tunnel HIGHBURY& BARKING -North London Line connection to East ISLINGTON West Ham EAST UPNEY Coast Main Line A12 HAM London tunnel 7.53km London tunnel 9.9km Islington UPTON PLAISTOW PARK East Ham Regent's canal London St Pancras Kings ANGEL international and Cross

domestic station Tower WEST DAGENHAM DOCK Hamlets HAM From 2007, Eurostar Newham services arrive at BECKTON New domestic platforms (3): St Pancras – later High-speed Kent commuter City PRINCE ROYAL joined by fast south- CANNING trains will use Channel line The drill head of one of six boring machines used for the London tunnel TOWN REGENT ALBERT eastWestminster commuter trains St Paul's A13 GALLIONS St Pancras roof from 2009 using Channel tunnel CUSTOM BECKTON PARK REACH extension under ROYAL rail tracks. CHARING X HOUSE construction VICTORIA City London City Airport Some Kent commuter airport times halved NORTH LONDON Rotherhithe WOOLWICH Palace of Westminster Future Midland BRIDGE Tower bridge WATERLOO Canary Dome Main Line Thames barrier BELVEDERE London Waterloo Wharf platforms (4) station VICTORIA Southwark PLUMSTEAD ABBEY WOOD ELEPHANT WOOLWICH International Eurostar services & CASTLE Woolwich Underground Pimlico WESTCOMBE ARSENAL platforms (6): King's Cross cease in 2007. PARK CHARLTON Thameslink line Eurostar services Station and hub station International VAUXHALL Deptford from 2007 platforms expected to switch to normal BATTERSEA PARK domestic services Greenwich NEW CROSS Stratford station, set in an excavated “box” 1.07km long QUEENS RD A2 QUEENSTOWN RD PECKHAM A2 Channel Tunnel link: Suface 1868 St Pancras train shed London St Pancras station DENMARK Welling WANDSWORTH RD RYE engineered by William Barlow HILL WELLINGChannel Tunnel link: in tunnel New Stratford station BLACKHEATH St Pancras NORTH SEA Existing railway BEXLEYHEATH Station Thames tunnel Battersea NUNHEAD LEWISHAM Ebbsfleet 2007 109 113 23.13 To King's Cross North Downs tunnel Launch date for Eurostar route from St Pancras to Distance in kilometres of high-speed rail route from Fastest journey time in minutes from St Pancras Total km of three tunnels bored between Folkestone Thameslink Waterloo Paris Gare du Nord (fastest: 2 hours 15 minutes) St Pancras to Channel Tunnel portal near Folkestone to Brussels, starting in 2007 and St Pancras: North Downs, Thames, London British Library station Portal to Channel Tunnel, Folkestone Channel Tunnel link: surface Fawkham junction Connections to St Pancras Chambers Channel Tunnel link: in tunnel (conventional track Ashford international 5.2 billion 230 35 17.4 (hotel and residential) links to Waterloo) and domestic station Midland Main Line Sterling total in billions for construction and Speed of Eurostar in kilometres per hour through Minutes from St Pancras to Channel Tunnel Length in km of twin-bore tunnel segments Thameslink in tunnel tunnels under east London under London, from Dagenham to St Pancras land costs East Coast Main Line/in tunnel How the Channel Tunnel Rail Link will look after completion in 2007 Along the line Topography of the new fast tracks

along their 109km length from 5080 300 3100 4500 3100 300 the heart of London to the Channel Tunnel portal near Folkestone

London and Thames tunnels: North Downs tunnel: Typical Cross Section twin bore, single track single bore, twin track 14000 Nominal Formation Width of open track Dimensions in millimetres

London St Pancras Stratford London tunnel Dagenham Thurrock viaduct Ebbsfleet international Waterloo connection River Medway North Downs Ashford Folkestone train goes under and domestic station international and international Freight connection for south-east tunnel 3.2km international and Connections to and domestic Queen Elizabeth (north Kent) commuter trains domestic station (Kent) domestic station at Ripple Lane Channel tunnel station bridge/M25 (Eurostar ceases 2007) Surface A13 A13 River A2 A228 A249 A20 A20 A20 M20 Aveley Thames viaduct Tunnel 2.5km

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