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Article: Eurostar's new Pounds 800m home ; Trains switch to St Pancras a year today

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The Evening Standard (London, England)
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November 14, 2006
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THIS is the new Pounds 800million St Pancras International station.

With a huge glass roof, it will house the quarter-mile-long Eurostar trains when they switch operation from Waterloo exactly one year from today.

More than 45 million travellers will use the station each year and operator London Continental Railways believes some people will visit just for the concourse facilities.

These include Europe's longest Champagne bar - all 302ft of it - a brasserie, farmers' market, gastropub and numerous shops.

The Eurostar will run on the new Pounds 5.8billion Channel Tunnel rail link direct into St Pancras, meaning a London to Paris journey time of two hours 15 minutes, a reduction of 20 ...

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