Following an £800 million refurbishment, Eurostar’s new home at St Pancras International in London will open for business on November 14 next year.
The station will replace Waterloo for all Eurostar trip departures and arrivals thanks to the refurbishment, which began in October 2001, and is projected to handle 44 million people annually.
Project director Mike Luddy said: “The restoration of St Pancras is a truly historic project. We are redefining how a station operates.”
Meanwhile, it has been announced that the new high speed railway which will link the station with the Channel Tunnel will be known as High Speed 1.
The building of the line has cost £5.8 billion, during which time the line has tunnelled under the Thames and avoided 18km of tunnels beneath London.