Ebbsfleet International train station
| Ebbsfleet International | |
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 Entrance to the station building
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| Data | |
| Operating point type | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 6th |
| IBNR | 7004419 |
| opening | 11/19/2007 |
| location | |
| Place / district | Borough of Dartford |
| county | Kent |
| Part of the country | England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 26 '35 " N , 0 ° 19' 15" E |
| Railway lines | |
| List of train stations in the United Kingdom | |
The Ebbsfleet International railway station is one of three stations on the first British high-speed rail line High Speed One , formerly known as the Channel Tunnel Rail Link .
Ebbsfleet International is owned by Union Railways (North) Ltd but is managed by National Rail .
history
The station was built together with the High Speed One and opened on November 19, 2007. After moving the Euro Star from Waterloo to St Pancras stopped here only high-speed trains, the London through the Channel Tunnel to Paris and Brussels joined.
Since December 2009, the station has also been served by national trains, namely class 395 trains between London and the south-east of England.
The architect of the station was Mark Fisher, in collaboration with Alastair Lansley CBE, Leszek Dobrovolsky and Fred Deacon.
location
The station is east of London, south of the Thames , between Gravesend and Dartford , 400 meters southwest of Northfleet station , 3.5 kilometers east of the Bluewater Shopping Center and not far from the M25 . Under the name Ebbsfleet Valley , new districts with up to 10,000 apartments and up to 20,000 jobs are to be created in the immediate vicinity of the train station.
The nearest train station to the north on HS1 is Stratford International Station . The closest train station to the south on the HS1 is Ashford International Station in Ashford, Kent . The closest train station to the North Kent Line junction is Gravesend . The station has two groups of platforms, one directly on the HS1 and the other a central platform at the overpass to the eastern North Kent Line. The platforms intended for international traffic are 760 millimeters above the upper edge of the rail (SOK), those intended for regional traffic have the standard British height of 915 millimeters above the SOK.
Clearance
platform
