Eurostar to a Cold England
Lille was cold and it wasn’t a bad interchange with just a hundred or so metres to walk between tracks to transfer from the TGV to the Eurostar.
I did get a gluten-free dinner on the train. It was some sort of fish. I’ve tasted better, but it filled a hole.
I was perhaps a couple of minutes late into St. Pancras, which meant that I had no chance of catching the 19:15 to Cambridge. So I had to wait for the 19:45, which got me back to Cambridge on time.
The taxi got me home about fifteen minutes short of twelve hours after leaving Nice.
A Train and a Half
Or is it is half a train and a double-half train?
A Standard TGV Reseau and a Duplex
This is the train I took from Nice to Lille. Note that it is a standard single-deck TGV Reseau, with a Duplex coupled on behind.
It might look odd, but it does give a degree of flexibility. In fact the two halves split at Lille, with the Reseau going on to Brussels.
The Anonymous Widower 