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In Pictures: Taking Boris Bikes to Paris

Find out what happened when two London bloggers took Boris Bikes for a day out to Paris.

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Explore More: Visit Paris This Summer With Eurostar

Watch this video of a trip to London’s “kissing cousin” and win a pair of Eurostar tickets to Paris

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Explore More With Eurostar And Win Tickets To Paris

Discover Avignon and enter a prize draw (sponsored post)

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“Retail Balcony” Plan For Waterloo Station

Network Rail have unveiled an artist’s impression of a new balcony at Waterloo station will help to alleviate overcrowding whilst, by coincidence, also ferrying passengers to a new strip of shops and cafes. The raised glass-fronted walkway, at the back of Britain’s busiest station (by …

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Waterloo’s Old Eurostar Platforms Cost £4.1m

The case of the hibernating Waterloo Station’s erstwhile Eurostar platforms gets curiouser and curiouser. When the five platforms closed down in November 2007, we were informed that at least one would be integrated into the domestic service within a year at a cost of £100,000. …

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Waterloo Expansion May Be Axed

Another casualty of next week’s spending review could be Waterloo station: the plan to integrate the old Eurostar platforms into the national network may be shelved for now. After closing in 2007, commuters were promised that the five platforms, which cost £2 million per year …

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Deutsche Bahn Begins Channel Tunnel Tests

Deutsche Bahn yesterday began running tests of their trains through the Channel tunnel, with a view to establishing direct links between St. Pancras and Frankfurt before the 2012 Olympics. The German company is operating trains similar to the new Eurostar e320 models announced last week, …

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In Pictures: New Eurostar Train At Albert Memorial

As reported earlier, Eurostar have made a £700 million order for a new fleet of trains. For today only, they had a full-scale model on display beside the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens, complete with a delegation from the Queen’s Guards who, true to form, …