Eurostar carried as many passengers in 2023 as it did before the pandemic, the cross-Channel rail operator said today.
Traveller numbers rose 22% to 18.6 million last year with a target to increase that number to 30 million a year by 2030.
Growth occured across Eurostar’s three main routes from London St Pancras to Amsterdam (up 38%), Brussels (up 33%) and Paris (up 25%).
“We carried almost eight million passengers between London and France, 1.1 million between the Netherlands and the UK, and 2.2 million to Belgium,” chief executive Gwendoline Cazenave said.
Nearly two million passengers are expected to use Eurostar to travel to Paris during this summer’s Olympic and Paralympic Games, the company added.