3 edited videos, broadcast extracts about Eurostar launch of services from North England to mainland Europe: ITV 1 Yorkshire West (Calendar, 14/11/2007) hish speed train between Leeds and Brussels in 5 hours total, on GNER service to London Kings Cross, footage of brand new St Pancras station and its champagne bar, interview with Nick Mercer (Eurostar), footage on board Eurostar and first class and in Brussels ; BBC 1 Yorkshire (Look North, 15/11/2007), new Eurostar terminal moved from Waterloo to St Pancras, two reporters on competition one traveling to Paris by rail the other by plane, leaving from York to Paris (Leeds airport), comparative footage of journey, interview with Philip Meeson (Jet2), Richard Brown (Eurostar), Steve Kimber (Great Rail Journeys), transport strike in Paris on arrival, footage of Paris and Eiffel tower ; BBC 1 North East & Cumbria (Look North, 19/11/2007), reporter travelling from Newcastle to Paris, footage of trip through driver window, interview with John Gelson (GNER), footage of St Pancras new station, first day of Eurostar from St Pancras, interview with Richard Brown (Chief excutive, Eurostar), footage of Eurostar and on board, and Paris Gare du Nord, also mention of strikes in Paris, plus footage of Eiffel tower illuminated ; approx. 12 min total

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Category:
Moving Images
Object Number:
2017-7016/6
Materials:
plastic (unidentified)
type:
dvd-r
credit:
Virgin Trains East Coast