This is the main entrance to the newly reopened London St Pancras station which is now home to the Eurostar and a high speed train service to the south coast.
Credit: Tim Ferguson
One of the departure boards shows when the Eurostar services are due to leave for Paris and Brussels.
The station's developer, London and Continental Railways, has provided numerous small departure boards like this to avoid to the excessive congregation of people often associated with more traditional ones.
Credit: Tim Ferguson
These are the e-ticket check-in machines for business travellers. The
machines work in much the same way as those operated by airlines, with
a reference code requested to confirm the booking before boarding
tickets are issued.
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Once passengers have their ticket, they pass through these gates to the Eurostar departure lounge which, among other things, has a Wi-Fi lounge and digital art installations.
The hope is the large number of e-ticket machines will mean there are fewer queues and people can quickly pass through to passport control and the bag drop desks on the other side.
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Eurostar trains line up for departure to the continent. There are six
Eurostar platforms all housed in the magnificently restored Barlow
train shed.
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This is one of the customer information points placed around the station. They will provide travellers and visitors with information on departure times as well as other facilities at St Pancras.
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The Barlow train shed and the shops below the main platform level. There will eventually be 67 shops in the station.
The Eurostar platforms are on the left with domestic services departing from the opposite end of the main train shed.
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This is a faithful reproduction of the great clock that hung in the original station. It replaced a mock version which had been in place during the construction phase of the station.
The clock is electrically powered and wirelessly linked to both the national atomic clock the other clocks in the station.
Credit: Tim Ferguson
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