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Waterloo International station was the London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 terminus of the Eurostar
Eurostar

Eurostar is a high-speed train service in Western Europe connecting London and Kent in the United Kingdom, with Paris and Lille in France, and Brussels in Belgium....
 international rail service from its opening on 14 November 1994 until 13 November 2007. It stands on the western side of Waterloo railway station, London. It was managed and branded separately from the mainline station.

Designed by the architectural firm Nicholas Grimshaw
Nicholas Grimshaw

Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Order of the British Empire is a prominent English architect, particularly noted for several modernist buildings, including London's Waterloo International railway station and the Eden Project in Cornwall....
 and Partners over 5 years, it cost £135 million and was completed in May 1993, in time for the scheduled completion of the Channel Tunnel
Channel Tunnel

The Channel Tunnel , also known by the portmanteau Chunnel, is a undersea rail transport tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent, Kent in England with Coquelles near Calais in northern France beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover....
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Waterloo International station was the London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 terminus of the Eurostar
Eurostar

Eurostar is a high-speed train service in Western Europe connecting London and Kent in the United Kingdom, with Paris and Lille in France, and Brussels in Belgium....
 international rail service from its opening on 14 November 1994 until 13 November 2007. It stands on the western side of Waterloo railway station, London. It was managed and branded separately from the mainline station.

Designed by the architectural firm Nicholas Grimshaw
Nicholas Grimshaw

Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Order of the British Empire is a prominent English architect, particularly noted for several modernist buildings, including London's Waterloo International railway station and the Eden Project in Cornwall....
 and Partners over 5 years, it cost £135 million and was completed in May 1993, in time for the scheduled completion of the Channel Tunnel
Channel Tunnel

The Channel Tunnel , also known by the portmanteau Chunnel, is a undersea rail transport tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent, Kent in England with Coquelles near Calais in northern France beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover....
. However the construction of the Tunnel was delayed and the station did not open until November 1994, when it won the Royal Institute of British Architects
Royal Institute of British Architects

The Royal Institute of British Architects is a professional body for architects in the United Kingdom.Originally named the Institute of British Architects in London, it was formed in 1834 by several prominent architects, including Philip Hardwick, Thomas Allom, William Donthorne, Thomas Leverton Donaldson and John Buonarotti Papwor...
' Building of the Year award.

Waterloo International has five platforms, numbered 20 to 24, one (20) taken from the mainline station, and four new ones, all covered by a new 400 m long glass and steel vault of 37 arches forming a prismatic structure, conceived by Anthony Hunt Associates. A two-level reception area fronts the main station concourse. The first Eurostar departure, on 14 November 1994, was formed of Eurostar units 373004/373003
British Rail Class 373

The British Rail Class 373 or TGV-TMST train is an electric multiple unit that operates Eurostar's high-speed rail service between Great Britain, France and Belgium via the Channel Tunnel....
  and the last service left at 18.12 GMT on 13 November 2007 for Brussels. From the next day Eurostar services used their new London terminus of St Pancras International.

The Waterloo International station then reverted to the ownership of the Department for Transport
Department for Transport

In the United Kingdom, the Department for Transport is the Departments of the United Kingdom Government responsible for the English transport network and transport matters in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland which are not devolved....
. Future use of all the Eurostar platforms is unclear. Some reports had suggested that they might be used for shops, but a parliamentary written answer of 4 June 2008 stated platform 20 was to be used by some South West Trains
South West Trains

South West Trains is a List of companies operating trains in the United Kingdom operating in the United Kingdom, providing train services to the south-west of London, chiefly in Greater London and the counties of Surrey, Hampshire, Dorset, Devon, Somerset, Berkshire, Wiltshire and the Isle of Wight ....
 services from December 2008. . The infrastructure outside Waterloo, not the number of platforms, limits capacity and so current planning focuses on enabling longer trains to use Waterloo, with a lower priority for bringing further International platforms back into use. The tracks used by Eurostar have limited access to those of the mainline station and extensive track and signalling work would be needed to gain much benefit from using the International platforms for local services.

See also

  • St Pancras International
  • List of closed railway stations in London
    List of closed railway stations in London

    ScopeThis article Wikipedia:Lists closed heavy rail passenger stations in the London region, whose limits are a matter of Talk:List of London railway stations....
  • Eurostar
    Eurostar

    Eurostar is a high-speed train service in Western Europe connecting London and Kent in the United Kingdom, with Paris and Lille in France, and Brussels in Belgium....
  • South West Trains
    South West Trains

    South West Trains is a List of companies operating trains in the United Kingdom operating in the United Kingdom, providing train services to the south-west of London, chiefly in Greater London and the counties of Surrey, Hampshire, Dorset, Devon, Somerset, Berkshire, Wiltshire and the Isle of Wight ....
  • Network Rail
    Network Rail

    Network Rail is a United Kingdom "not for dividend" company limited by guarantee whose principal asset is Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, a company limited by shares....


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In film

  • The station is shown repeatedly in The Russian Dolls
    The Russian Dolls

    The Russian Dolls is a 2005 in film France-United Kingdom film, the sequel to L'Auberge espagnole . C?dric Klapisch wrote and directed the film, whose settings include Paris, London, Saint Petersburg and Moscow....
     (Les Poupées russes), as the main character Xavier commutes frequently, by rail, between Paris and London.
  • In Mr Bean's Holiday, Mr Bean sets out on this holiday from Waterloo International
  • In The Bourne Ultimatum
    The Bourne Ultimatum (film)

    The Bourne Ultimatum is a 2007 spy film directed by Paul Greengrass and loosely based on the Robert Ludlum The Bourne Ultimatum. The film is a sequel to The Bourne Supremacy and the third film of the Bourne ....
    , Jason Bourne arrives from Paris and steps out onto Waterloo International's Eurostar platforms. Further action takes place in the rest of Waterloo station.