 The fastest trains take 2 hours 15 minutes London–Paris and 1 hour 51 minutes London–Brussels.The first twice-daily London-Amsterdam service ran April 3, 2018, and took 3 hours 47 minutes.The TGV was the world's third commercial and standard gauge high-speed train service, after Japan's Shinkansen, which connected Tokyo and Osaka from 1 October 1964, and Britain's InterCity 125 on main lines such as the East Coast Main Line, which entered service in 1976.