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, had to make do while excited tourists posed beside the train with them for photographs.
Click through the image above to see the train that will be whisking Londoners to Paris in under 2 hours, and offering direct services to Amsterdam and other points continental.
