Stratford International station is a railway station located in Stratford in the London Borough of Newham in East London. It was built as part of the work on the second phase of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (now called High Speed 1 (or HS1)) and was completed in April 2006. ^[1]It is not currently operational as HS1 itself has not yet been completed. The station forms part of the Stratford City redevelopment. Stratford, historically Stratford Langthorne, is a place in the London Borough of Newham in East London. ... Newham Town Hall in East Ham (E6) Logo on the roadside at sunset The London Borough of Newham is a London borough in East London, England. ... East London is the name commonly given to the eastern part of London on the north side of the River Thames. ... A Eurostar train on the CTRL, near Ashford Model showing the current redevelopment of the Kings Cross area with the new extension to the barrel-vaulted St Pancras Station on the left. ... April 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Events 1 April 2006 (Saturday) Marcos Pontes, Brazils first astronaut, reaches the International Space Station. ... Stratford City is a project to create a major new urban centre for East London on the site of a former railway good yard at Stratford. ...

The station is on HS1 between St. Pancras railway station and Ebbsfleet International station. It is situated some distance from nearby Stratford Regional station, which is a major transport hub. It will have 4 platforms. The station will be bisected by a ramp that the trains will use to get out of the station trench in order to reach the depot at Temple Mills. The Gothic Revival facade and clock tower of the disused Midland Hotel are the most visible part of St Pancras station. ... Ebbsfleet, also known as Dartford International, is a new Eurostar station a few miles outside the M25 in Kent, on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, which will have a 15 min journey time to St Pancras. ... Stratford station is a London Underground and National Rail station at Stratford. ... Temple Mills is a northerly part of Stratford, south of Leyton, located within the London borough of Newham in East London Today, Temple Mills is surrounded at present by former railway tracks and works beloging to the Great Eastern Railway, but a small maintenance depot for EWS and Railtrack still...

The intended purpose of this station was to act as a London stop for regional Eurostar trains. However as plans for these services are "under review"^[2] as such there is very little incentive for Eurostar trains from or to St Pancras to call at this station when the link is initially opened, the surrounding area is currently a construction site. Eurostar is a train service that connects London (Waterloo station) with Paris (Gare du Nord), Lille and Brussels (Gare du Midi). ... Eurostar is a train service that connects London (Waterloo station) with Paris (Gare du Nord), Lille and Brussels (Gare du Midi). ...

A further reason for a delay in opening is that there was also an issue with the planning permission requiring easy access to Stratford Regional station prior to the station being used by passengers. This will be via the planned extension of the Docklands Light Railway, which expected to be operational by 2010, the proposed travelator link is no longer part of the plans. Consequently trains are not expected to stop there until 2009 at the earliest. The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is a light rail public transport metro serving the redeveloped Docklands area of east London, England. ... An inclined moving sidewalk at Beaudry metro station in Montreal A moving sidewalk, moving walkway, travelator, travellator or trav-o-lator is a slow speed conveyor belt to transport people; they can walk along it or stand; it is like a horizontal escalator. ...

The station will however be used for domestic high-speed services operated by Southeastern. During the 2012 Summer Olympics it will serve Stratford's Olympic Park. In particular, special Olympic Javelin trains will take passengers from St. Pancras in central London and from Ebbsfleet International to the Olympic facilities around Stratford International station. The station is just inside the eastern boundary of the Olympic site. It is being built at grid reference TQ382849. Southeastern is a train operating company that began operations in south-east England on 1 April 2006, replacing the former publicly-owned operator South Eastern Trains. ... The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXX Olympiad, will be held in London, United Kingdom from 26 July to 12 August 2012. ... The London Olympic Park, is a new sporting complex to be built in Stratford for the 2012 Summer Olympics. ... The Olympic Javelin is a proposed high-speed train network announced as part of the London 2012 Olympic bid. ... The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ...

External link

• Stratford International station on Google maps

References

1. ^ Webster, Ben. "Ghost train station that cost £210m", The Times, 2006-04-21. Retrieved on 2006-07-20. (in en-GB)
2. ^ Channel Tunnel Rail Link (en-GB). alwaystouchout.com (2006-06-05). Retrieved on 2006-07-20.