Beyond Brussels, the main cities Thalys trains reach are Antwerp, The Hague, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Liège and Cologne, partly on dedicated high-speed tracks (some of these are yet to be built), partly on older tracks shared with normal-speed trains.
Near or beyond Paris the French high-speed network opens the way for high-speed links from or through Brussels to other French cities like Avignon and Marseille, Geneva in Switzerland, and locations like Paris' main international airport (Roissy - Charles de Gaulle) and the Disneyland leisure park in Marne-la-Vallée.
The link with Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport allowed Air France to cancel its aerial line between Paris and Brussels; instead, Air France books seats on Thalys trains.
Travel time from Brussels (Gare du Midi/Zuidstation) to Paris (Gare du Nord) is normally 1 hour 25, for a distance of approximatively 300 km.
http://www.thalys.com -- Thalys official site
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