jon,
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I was rushing earlier so didn’t post pics

I went from Bruxelles to Paris via Marne La Vallée today so as to check the suitability of the station there for Channel Tunnel services

The good news: there’s a platform that can be cordoned off, Lille Europe style

Less good: there’s either little or no stabling space south of the station. So you’d have to timetable fast turnarounds to use MLV

Nets separate passengers on escalators. TGV below stopped at the secure platform
Platform level - secure platform to the left

schotanus,
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@jon A station transformed into a cage. Pfff what a dystopia 🤦‍♂️😭

fishter_uk,
@fishter_uk@mastodon.scot avatar

@jon I'd have assumed there was an "air-locked" platform because there was service from there to the UK until quite recently. It would have been optimistic to assume SNCF had so rapidly ripped it out!
(My frame of reference: three years to install a pair of lifts at a suburban station, with an existing underground passage...)

jon,
@jon@gruene.social avatar

@fishter_uk but passport controls for Disney trains were usually in London, not juxtaposed. But it was all better done than I’d had expected.

fishter_uk,
@fishter_uk@mastodon.scot avatar

@jon I didn't know that detail. Disney is not a favoured destination of mine! 😁

jon,
@jon@gruene.social avatar

@fishter_uk Ha! Me neither. Today was literally the first time I ever got out there too.

trantion,

@jon @fishter_uk Is it possible they intended to do passport controls here when the station was built, but then decided not to for whatever reason?

jon,
@jon@gruene.social avatar

@trantion @fishter_uk might also be that was for bag scans

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