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Article: Eurostar even quicker with mobile tickets
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 14, 2008
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EUROSTAR is to introduce mobile phone and online tickets.
Gates at the newly opened terminal at St Pancras International
are already equipped with scanning devices and customers booking
online will be able to print tickets at home through the service
within months.
The mobile phone scheme, which will let passengers simply scan a
barcode displayed on their phone's screen, is to begin trials by the
middle of the year, a Eurostar spokeswoman said.
The move comes after Eurostar ticket sales increased by a fifth
since the cross- Channel train service moved to St Pancras and
started running at 186mph.
The introduction of the faster Londonto-Paris and London-to-
Brussels services in the last six ...