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Article: Eurostar gears up for move to St Pancras in 2007: completion of a 300km/h link between London St Pancras and the Channel Tunnel heralds improved services to continental Europe in 2007.(Channel Tunnel Rail Link)
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- International Railway Journal
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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A RANGE of faster, more frequent, and more punctual high-speed Eurostar services between London and Brussels and Paris is being developed in readiness for the opening of phase two of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL2) in 2007. The first phase opened in 2003 and set new records in 2004 with 89% punctuality, 7.2 million passengers, and market shares of 68% on the Paris route and 63% on the Brussels route.
The 5.2 billion [pounds sterling], 109km link from the Channel Tunnel to a modernised and extended St Pancras station in central London will signal the completion of Britain's first major new railway for more than a century. It will also mean a major logistical ...