Eurostar unveils Ebbsfleet International station

Friday, 13 Sep, 2006 0

Eurostar has officially unveiled the new Ebbsfleet International station, strategically located near Dartford in Kent.

Close to Junction 2 of the M25 and the M20, M2 and A2 routes and Bluewater shopping centre, it means Eurostar travellers will avoid the need to travel into central London.

The station lies on the second section of the new high-speed rail link that runs from just south of Gravesend to London St Pancras, and will open when Eurostar switches its London operations from Waterloo to St Pancras International in autumn 2007.

Ebbsfleet International will offer 9,000 parking spaces and connections to domestic public transport services, and is expected to be used by more than one million travellers a year.

The modern steel and glass building has facilities for fast check-in and train boarding.

Trains will stop at six platforms – two for international and four for domestic services.

“Ebbsfleet International is expected to be a major catalyst for regeneration in the East Thames Corridor, and its importance will further increase when domestic high-speed rail services between London and Kent begin in 2009,” said a spokesman for Eurostar.

Nearly half of Eurostar services will call at Ebbsfleet International.

By Bev Fearis

Bev

Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.

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