The clip from November 2007 says that Waterloo International handled 82 million passengers in 13 years 1994-2007. The trains were efficiently switched to St Pancras overnight: late on 13 November Waterloo saw its last Eurostar, from early morning on 14 November trains ran from St Pancras. The staff all moved to Sp P and started work there the next day. What was unsatisfactory (to say the least) was that the Department for Transport (DfT), Railway Regulators, Network Rail and South West Trains together managed to take no less than 10 years, 2007 to 2017, to reopen the International platforms for domestic rail services. In British Rail Network South East days that would have been arranged in 6 months, maximum one year. No investigation into why the bringing of the platroms into domestic train service took so long. Christian Wolmar wrote several times in those years about the slowness of doing what was necessary.
So many memories of when Eurostar came to London and London Waterloo International station was built until 2007. That saw Eurostar moved to St. Pancras International after HS1 was built. I used to travel from Waterloo International to Paris when I was a child.
If by 'abandoned' you mean re-purposed and fully in use by domestic services, yes.. lovely to see the old Eurostar terminus as it was though! Used it many times before the move to North London!
I want to know what happened to the shoal of artictulated fish hanging from the ceiling in the long corridor by the taxi rank at 07.00. When a train came in or left the vibrations were designed to make them move.
It's been reconfigured, and now the old Eurostar Terminal at Waterloo is part of suburban rail services on Southwestern Railway (SWR). It's part of the rest of the station, rather than separate from it. But it was derelict for a very long time - well over a decade. It didn't get brought back into use until about 2021.
@@pauldavidfassam7042 It wasn't clear but was the end of the video showing that it's now in use...the trains were current stock but the roof looked like that of the Eurostar terminal.
@@soulfabukYes. I have gotten trains from that area to Windsor and Hampton Court. The lower level isn’t open (old customs and immigration) but the platforms are in use.
It’s regularly in use now. Ironically what was nicknamed “the Windsor platforms” before the station was remodelled to become Waterloo International, is now once again home to the Windsor services.
I'm not really interested in this one. Looks like a real waste of money. What was the sense of building this station, if a few years later you move service to another location?
HS1 wasn't ready. I travelled from Paris Gare du Nord to London Waterloo in 1997 the train journey was fantastic until the UK side of the tunnel. The journey from there was on tracks limited to 60 mph (from memory). A French passenger asked me "is THIS London?!" and I said yes. I was really disappointed at his reaction. Then we went past a large scrap yard which somebody had painted in large letters "it's all a load of bollocks" which made me laugh out loud.
@@thetwistedsock3253 I think it was mostly 100mph through Kent; probably slower as you approached central London but mostly because of congestion. Anyway, the exact speed doesn't matter -- it was _much_ slower than the 300km/h the trains were doing on the other side of the tunnel.
It must have been a lot as most of the station was busier than ever, but platforms 20-24 (the former Eurostar platforms) just sat abandoned with occasional use for performances of The Railway Children before the common sense decision was made to adapt them for domestic services
@@beeble2003 The Eurostar services left Waterloo in 2007 and the platforms didn't come back into domestic use until 2017/18 so it was abandoned for 10 years.
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The clip from November 2007 says that Waterloo International handled 82 million passengers in 13 years 1994-2007. The trains were efficiently switched to St Pancras overnight: late on 13 November Waterloo saw its last Eurostar, from early morning on 14 November trains ran from St Pancras. The staff all moved to Sp P and started work there the next day. What was unsatisfactory (to say the least) was that the Department for Transport (DfT), Railway Regulators, Network Rail and South West Trains together managed to take no less than 10 years, 2007 to 2017, to reopen the International platforms for domestic rail services. In British Rail Network South East days that would have been arranged in 6 months, maximum one year. No investigation into why the bringing of the platroms into domestic train service took so long. Christian Wolmar wrote several times in those years about the slowness of doing what was necessary.
So many memories of when Eurostar came to London and London Waterloo International station was built until 2007. That saw Eurostar moved to St. Pancras International after HS1 was built. I used to travel from Waterloo International to Paris when I was a child.
If by 'abandoned' you mean re-purposed and fully in use by domestic services, yes.. lovely to see the old Eurostar terminus as it was though! Used it many times before the move to North London!
Cool to know!
Where abouts in North London?
I liked it the most when they staged a version of the Railway Children there with a real train
I want to know what happened to the shoal of artictulated fish hanging from the ceiling in the long corridor by the taxi rank at 07.00. When a train came in or left the vibrations were designed to make them move.
I am gonna miss the station 😢 :(
Gonna? It was closed in 2007.
It’s still open 😂
It's been reconfigured, and now the old Eurostar Terminal at Waterloo is part of suburban rail services on Southwestern Railway (SWR). It's part of the rest of the station, rather than separate from it.
But it was derelict for a very long time - well over a decade. It didn't get brought back into use until about 2021.
I rode the eurostar out of waterloo twice
It's all Tracked up and Signalled - so why in the name of the Lord don't they find a use for it?
@@pauldavidfassam7042 It wasn't clear but was the end of the video showing that it's now in use...the trains were current stock but the roof looked like that of the Eurostar terminal.
@@soulfabukYes. I have gotten trains from that area to Windsor and Hampton Court. The lower level isn’t open (old customs and immigration) but the platforms are in use.
It’s regularly in use now. Ironically what was nicknamed “the Windsor platforms” before the station was remodelled to become Waterloo International, is now once again home to the Windsor services.
@xr6lad The lower level is now in use, it's called The Sidings and has a few shops, bars and restaurants down there.
I'm not really interested in this one. Looks like a real waste of money. What was the sense of building this station, if a few years later you move service to
another location?
Because they needed something quickly. And the platforms are now used for other services -- it's not abandoned, as the video claims.
HS1 wasn't ready. I travelled from Paris Gare du Nord to London Waterloo in 1997 the train journey was fantastic until the UK side of the tunnel. The journey from there was on tracks limited to 60 mph (from memory). A French passenger asked me "is THIS London?!" and I said yes. I was really disappointed at his reaction. Then we went past a large scrap yard which somebody had painted in large letters "it's all a load of bollocks" which made me laugh out loud.
@@thetwistedsock3253 I think it was mostly 100mph through Kent; probably slower as you approached central London but mostly because of congestion. Anyway, the exact speed doesn't matter -- it was _much_ slower than the 300km/h the trains were doing on the other side of the tunnel.
Sorry, but this is garbage. The international part of Waterloo wasn't "abandoned". It's still in use for other services.
Yes, I know it has been repurposed but the video shows what it was like when it was abandoned. Therefore is titled correctly.
@@TrainsTrainsTrains It was out of use, not abandoned.
@@beeble2003who cares?
@@Devmart53 People who dislike clickbait? People who want decent, honest content on RUclips?
@ how is that clickbait?
I dread to think how much money was thrown away when they left Eurostar Waterloo abandoned!!
They use tje platforms for suburban services now. I’ve boarded from them for trains to Windsor and /or Hampton Court.
Should have kept it open for diversion or engineering works at St pancreas.
It must have been a lot as most of the station was busier than ever, but platforms 20-24 (the former Eurostar platforms) just sat abandoned with occasional use for performances of The Railway Children before the common sense decision was made to adapt them for domestic services
It wasn't "abandoned". The platforms are in use today for suburban services.
@@beeble2003 The Eurostar services left Waterloo in 2007 and the platforms didn't come back into domestic use until 2017/18 so it was abandoned for 10 years.