Eurostar Switches to St. Pancras International Tonight

The Champagne Bar at the new St. Pancras International Terminal in London is said to be the longest in Europe.
Eurostar passengers arriving from the Continent will have a chance to check it out for themselves tomorrow as the new high speed rail link between Paris and London is launched. Overnight, Waterloo station, which has been in the Eurostar Terminal, will cease being an international station and the newer, faster service - London to Paris in 2 hours 15 minutes! - will move to St. Pancras.
Besides a better and faster service, this should no doubt please those among the French who were annoyed at having to arrive at a station named for the place where Napoleon suffered his final defeat at the hands of the Duke of Wellington. Some of them even petitioned the UK government to change the station's name a few years ago.

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