Eurostar has brought high-speed travel to St Pancras International: a new era for high speed train travel
As well as faster journeys, better connections throughout London and the rest of the UK, Eurostar's new St Pancras International terminal is user-friendly, state-of-the-art and has the longest champagne bar in Europe.
Get there even faster
You'll reach your Eurostar destination an average of 22 to 25 minutes earlier by leaving from St Pancras. That means you can reach Paris in the time it takes air passengers to check in for their flight!
Take a look at these new fastest journey times:
| Journey |
Current Time |
New Time |
| London to Paris |
2 hours 35 minutes |
2 hours 15 minutes |
| London to Brussels |
2 hours 15 minutes |
1 hour 51 minutes |
| London to Lille |
1 hour 40 minutes |
1 hour 20 minutes |
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Stunning St Pancras
St Pancras International is somewhere you'll want to go even if you're not taking the train. The magnificently restored station will offer superb shopping with an imaginative mixture of boutiques and top names like M&S, plus a farmers' market, a fine-dining brasserie.
Ebbsfleet International
Paris, Brussels, Lille and all the many other connecting Eurostar destinations will be within even easier reach from all over the South East of England with the opening of Ebbsfleet International in Kent, close to the Bluewater shopping centre.
Now you can get from Crawley or Chelmsford to central Paris and Brighton or Cambridge to central Brussels in just 4 hours.
Ebbsfleet will offer faster journey times as well as 2,500 parking spaces within five minutes' walk of the check-in gates, with a charge of £11.50 a day. Business Premier ticket holders and members of Eurostar's Carte Blanche frequent traveller scheme can park free for up to four days.
In addition, the station offers Avis car rental, regulated taxis and covered bicycle parking, and will soon have valet parking and car wash services.
Eurostar travellers can also reach Ebbsfleet International via public transport, obtaining free travel on both Southeastern train services and the local Fastrack bus service simply by producing proofs of ticket purchase and identity. The same arrangements apply for Eurostar travellers using Ashford International.
Download a list of Southeastern train services to Ebbsfleet
Visit Fastrack's website bus timetables and information here
Ashford International
Ashford International will retain three daily services to Paris and a daily service to Disneyland® Resort Paris as well as it's weekly services to Avignon during the summer and the French Alps during the winter.