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Old May 10th 08, 08:06 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Graculus Graculus is offline
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Default So, who was right about Eurostar ridership?

"TheOneKEA" wrote in message
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Now that Eurostar has been running the full length of HS1 and has been
serving St. Pancras for a little over five months, who was right?

Did all of the people living in areas reachable from, via or in SW
London who used to go via Waterloo give up and go to Gatwick? Did
swarms of people that once stuffed themselves into the Underground and
Thameslink to get to Waterloo from Euston, KxSTP and Liverpool St now
just walk up to the St. Pancras turnstiles?


All the bally-hoo about the half hour chopped off the London-Paris time is
somewhat moot for those of us who'd travel into Waterloo. That half hour
saved is spent making the unpleasant trip from Waterloo to St Pancras.

Ho hum!