Article: Eurostar even quicker with mobile tickets

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 ...

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