by The Eurostar passengers are allowed to go on board as normal as normal on board to avoid overcrowding at the St. Pancras station.
You can take your seats – to goals such as Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam – 30 minutes before departure instead of having to wait in the departure lounge.
It is part of a gradual plan to enable St Pancras to double more than double passenger capacity and use the station “future evidence” to use the growing demand for international rail travel.
The station owner London St. Pancras High Speed and Eurostar, who runs trains to France, Belgium and the Netherlands, would like to compete with the high standards at Terminal 5 of the Heathrow Airport.
You want to increase through the throughput of international passengers in St. Pancras from 1,800 per hour in the previous year to up to 5,000 per hour in the next few years.
In conversation with the standard, they promised to do this without having a disadvantageous effects on passengers with Thameslink, East Midland’s Railway and South Heasters High Speed Domestics Services.
The companies have signed a “letter of intent” to demonstrate that according to Richard Thorp, Chief Operating Officer from London St. Pancras High Speed, “hand in hand in what we want to achieve”.
He said: “If we set off in cross purposes, the project would not be successful for anyone.
“St. Pancras and Eurostar at the highest level are absolutely obliged to create space in St. Pancras, which are absolutely amazing for the traveling audience.”
The demand for international rail travel in St. Pancras is expected to triple three to 35 million passengers per year by 2040.
Competitive operators such as Virgin, Trenitalia and Gemini want to start with the trains between St. Pancras and the continent, while Eurostar Frankfurt and Geneva would like to add new services.
Mr. Thorp said that the “phenomenally exciting” station extension plans would “unlock the latent demand for high -speed rail”.
He said: “We are very aware of what the competition offers. We have to exceed and promote what is great at the traffic center in the city center for the city center is the Café-to Café travel experience.”
Eurostar recently recorded his “busy weeks in the St. Pancras”, and the punctuality of the claims that had dropped to 84.5% of the trains within 15 minutes after its planned period after its planned time after its planned period.
The size of the “border” in St. Pancras – passengers crossing Great Britain to the EU within the ward – has been doubled to prepare the introduction of the Digital Entry/Exit Systems (EU) of the EU (EES), which will change the requirements for British nationals that travel in the area of Schengen.
Simon Lejeune, Chief Safety and Station Officer at Eurostar, said: “We shorten the check-in times. As a result, the passengers can arrive a little later.
“We also got into our trains a little earlier. This gives the customer a good feeling for the river. It becomes a seamless, smooth experience.
“We started 30 minutes before the departure time. Passengers appreciate a little earlier.”
The architecture company Hawkins \ Brown was appointed to carry out a design and feasibility study by the station “to record more passengers and work more efficiently”.
The three-phase expansion begins to make improvements within the current footprint of the station, including “optimization of the security and border crossing processes” in order to provide an increase of 2,700 passengers per hour in the next three to four years.
The second phase will include improving the international area and its connection to the main hall by 2028.
The third phase, which is to be completed in the mid-2030s, could lead to the arrivals upwards. What means that they could leave the station from the same level as their train.
Andrew Davies, Transport & Infrastructure Lead in Hawkins \ Brown, said: “Our challenge is to create an inviting new landmark for London with minimal disruption to the traveling public.”
The concept design and feasibility study should be completed in the late 2025 if formal design and construction plans are to be developed. The predicted final date for the second phase is until the end of 2028.
