Thalys
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Thalys (French: ) was a brand name used for high-speed train services between Paris Gare du Nord and both Amsterdam Centraal and German cities in the Rhein-Ruhr, including Aachen, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Essen and Dortmund, both via Brussels-South.
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- Thalys
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- Hoofddorp Thalys TGV-PBA 4534 trein 9340 Paris-Nord - Flickr - Rob Dammers.jpg
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- Thalys TGV in Hoofddorp, Netherlands
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- High-speed rail
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- Eurostar Group
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- History
- Background and establishment
- Changes and improvements
- Merger with Eurostar
- Routes
- Market
- Accessibility
- Thalys Lounge
- Partnership with Airlines
- Rolling stock
- Accidents and incidents
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Thalys (French: ) was a brand name used for high-speed train services between Paris Gare du Nord and both Amsterdam Centraal and German cities in the Rhein-Ruhr, including Aachen, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Essen and Dortmund, both via Brussels-South.
Thalys was created out of a political ambition formalised in October 1987 to establish a network of international high-speed railway services between the cities of Paris, Brussels, Cologne and Amsterdam. The Thalys name was created in January 1995. The company procured a fleet of Alstom-built TGV trains to operate its services as they were viewed as the only existing rolling stock suitable to the task.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thalys” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.