In message , Dave Liney
writes

Only if you take as truth that most of the people getting on Eurostar trains
are from SWT destinations and that is because people can't cope with the
"struggle" of 1.9 miles/20-30 minutes from St Pancras. I don't.

The argument is more finely balanced than the inconvenience of a poor
interchange. There is the additional time and the fact that there is now
an additional leg of the journey in both directions.

It is the *combination* of these factors that will make St Pancras far
less attractive than Waterloo for customers currently using the latter.

Considering that they won't survive if they haven't done their sums properly

Since Eurostar isn't even remotely "commercial" in the normal sense of
the term, there is every likelihood that they would survive a bad
decision. The shareholders are hardly short of funds!

I'd expect them to have taken the job seriously. Perhaps you don't know all
the facts?

I don't any more than you do. But one only has to look at the history of
the line - customer predictions that were miles off-target, the great
plan for direct services from Manchester, Edinburgh and Leeds that never
transpired - oh, yes, and the famous South Wales to Paris night service.

I'd expect them to do the same as they do at Heathrow which is head for the
tube/train to where they want to go.

And you think that's better than stepping off the train in Waterloo?

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Paul Terry