Connections with Eurostar from and to The UK

Discover where you can travel on to by direct express train from the major stations served by the Eurostar services to and from the UK - see at a glance which other destinations you can access most easily.

This is a guide intended for leisure travellers, so the non-comprehensive destination lists focus on locations and routes popular with tourists.
The day train frequency guides are based on the usual schedules between 08:00am and 17:00pm, but the availability of the trains can be impacted by temporary timetable alterations.

From Bruxelles/Brussels

This guide explains how to make the transfer from Eurostar Arrivals on to the other trains services at Bruxelles-Midi/Brussel-Zuid station.

More than 1 x train per hour:
to Antwerp, Brugge, Charleroi, Gent, Liège, Mechelen, Mons and Rotterdam

1 or 2 x trains per hour:
to Paris

1 x train per hour (*= in most hours):
to Aachen, Amsterdam Centraal*, Amsterdam-Zuid, Köln/Cologne*, Luxembourg, Mons, Oostende

1 x train every other hour:
to Frankfurt Airport and Frankfurt (Main)

0 to 2 x trains per hour to
Lille

Less frequent trains:
to Avignon, Dusseldorf, London, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nimes and Strasbourg

Night trains (not every night):
to Berlin, Dresden, Linz, Prague and Wien/Vienna

For full details see the journey guides on ShowMeTheJourney.

Rail services in Belgium are comparatively uncomplicated with all routes having fixed interval timetables with  a minimum of 1 x train per hour

From Lille

*= from Lille Flandres station, the other trains depart from Lille-Europe station

1 x train per hour (in most hours) 
to Amiens*, Antwerpen*, Gent* and Paris*, 

Less frequent trains
to Aeroport CDG, Aix-en-Provence TGV, Amsterdam, Angers, Avignon, Beziers, Bordeaux*, Brussels, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Narbonne, Nantes, Nimes, Poitiers*, Rennes, Rotterdam, Rouen* and Strasbourg

1 x train per day
to Beziers, Narbonne and Perpignan

For full details see the journey guides

Note that train services in France aren’t typically arranged around regular, fixed interval train departures, so the frequencies for national journeys included above are very much a guide.The number of departures to each destination tends to vary from hour to hour.

From Paris

Eurostar trains from and to London arrive and depart from the Gare Du Nord.

From and to Gare De Lyon

How to make the transfer from the Gare du Nord to the Gare de Lyon is explained on this guide.

1 or more x trains per hour (in most hours) 
to Lyon

0 to 2 x trains per hour:
to Avignon-TGV, Marseille and Valence-TGV

Less frequent trains:
to Aix-les-Bains, Aix-en-Provence TGV, Annecy, Antibes, Avignon Centre, Basel, Besancon, Barcelona, Beziers, Bourg St Maurice (winter only), Cannes, Chambery, Dijon, Evian-Les-Bains, Geneva, Girona, Grenoble, Milan, Montpellier, Narbonne, Nice, Nimes, Perpignan, St Gervais (winter only), St Raphael, Toulon, Turin and Zurich

For full details see the journey guides on ShowMeTheJourney

From and to Gare Montparnasse

How to make the transfer from the Gare du Nord to the Gare Montparnasse is explained on this guide.

0 to 2 x trains per hour:
to Bordeaux, Nantes and Rennes

Less frequent trains:
to Bayonne, Brest, Biarritz, Hendaye (connect for San Sebastian), La Rochelle, Lourdes, Morlaix, Quimper, Poittiers, St Malo, Toulouse, Tours and Vannes

For full details see the journey guides on ShowMeTheJourney.

From and to the Gare de l’Est

How to make the transfer from the Gare du Nord to the Gare de l’Est is explained on this guide.

1 or more x trains per hour (in most hours) 
to Strasbourg

Less frequent trains:
to Colmar, Luxembourg, Frankfurt (Main), Karlsruhe, Nancy, Reims and Stuttgart

1 x train per day:
to Berlin, Freiburg Im Breisgau and München/Munich

Night trains (not every night):
to Berlin, Linz, Salzburg  and Wien/Vienna

For full details see the journey guides on ShowMeTheJourney

From and to Gare Austerlitz

Metro Line 5 (direction Place d'Italie) provides a direct link from Gare Du Nord to Austerlitz.

Or if time is on your side, take bus line 91 from this stop on Rue de Saint-Quentin.

Up to 1 x train per hour (in most hours):
to Orleans

Less frequent trains:
by Intercités train to Limoges, Brive and Toulouse; and by Ouigo Classique trains to Le Mans, Nantes and Rennes; and by Intercités de Nuit train to Antibes, Bayonne, Briancon, Cannes Foix, La Tour de Carol, Lourdes, Nice, Rodez and Tarbes

From and to the Gare Saint Lazare

The RER Line E station at Gare Du Nord is named Magenta, there are trains  every 5-10mins to Haussmann – St-Lazare.station at the Gare Saint Lazare.

1 or more x trains per hour (in most hours) 
to Rouen

1 x train every one or two hours:
to Bayeux, Cherbourg Caen and Le Havre

For full details see the journey guides

Note that train services in France aren’t typically arranged around regular, fixed interval train departures, so the frequencies for national journeys included above are very much a guide.
The number of departures to each destination tends to vary from hour to hour.

From Amsterdam

The Eurostar trains arrive at and depart from Amsterdam Centraal station and the frequencies below are for onward trains from Centraal.

4 x trains per hour
to Alkmaar, Eindhoven, Haarlem, Hoorn, Leiden and Utrecht

2 x trains per hour
to Arnhem, Delft, Den Haag-Centraal, Den Haag-HS, Gouda, Maastricht and Rotterdam (see below)

1 x train per hour (in most hours)
to Antwerpen and Bruxelles (see below)

Less frequent trains
to Lille. London and Paris

1 x train every other hour
to Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt Airport, Frankfurt (Main), Hannover and Köln/Cologne

1 x train per day 
to München/Munich and Stuttgart

Night trains (*= not every night):
to Basel, Berlin*, Dresden*, Innsbruck, Linz, München/Munich, Prague*, Wien/Vienna and Zurich

The trains to Groningen, Leeuwarden, fast ICD trains to Breda and Rotterdam and the hourly ECD trains to Antwerpen and Bruxelles depart from Amsterdam-Zuid - which is linked to Centraal by line 52 of the Amsterdam Metro.

For full details see the journey guides on ShowMeTheJourney

From Rotterdam

6 x trains per hour
to Delft and Den Haag HS

4 x trains per hour
to Amsterdam-Zuid, Gouda, Leiden, Schiphol Airport (fast trains) and Utrecht (fastest route)

2 or 3 x trains per hour
to Antwerpen and Bruxelles-Midi

2 x trains per hour
to Amsterdam-Centraal, Den Haag-Centraal, Eindhoven, Haarlem and Middleburg

1 x train per hour
to Bruxelles Airport, Bruxelles-Central and Bruxelles-Nord

Less frequent trains
to Lille, London and Paris

Rail services in The Netherlands are comparatively uncomplicated with all longer-distance routes having fixed interval timetables with a minimum of 2 x fast IC trains per hour.

From London

Close to all long-distance train services in Great Britain operate to fixed interval timetables with a minimum of 1 x train per hour, but most routes from and to London have 2 x trains per hour.  

In London the Eurostar trains arrive at and depart from St Pancras International station.

From and to St Pancras International

More than 4 x trains per hour
to St Albans, London Bridge, Gatwick Airport and Luton Airport Parkway

4 x trains per hour
to Brighton and Leicester

2 x trains per hour 
to Cambridge, Derby, Greenwich, Nottingham, Margate, Rochester (hiSpeed) and Sheffield

1 x train per hour to
Broadstairs, Canterbury, Deal, Folkestone and Whistable

Less frequent trains
to Amsterdam, Brussels, Lille and Paris

For full details see the journey guides

From and to King’s Cross

King’s Cross station is literally across the street from St Pancras International.

2 or 3 x trains per hour
to Edinburgh, Newcastle and York

2 x trains per hour 
to Cambridge (non-stop trains) and Leeds

1 x train per hour 
to Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Ely and King’s Lynn

Less frequent trains
to Aberdeen, Bradford, Dundee, Durham, Harrogate, Leuchars (for St Andrews) and Lincoln

1 x train per day
to Aviemore, Inverness, Perth and Stirling

For full details see the journey guides

From and to Euston

Euston station is less than a mile from St Pancras International, this guide explains how to make the transfer between them.

5 x trains per hour (in most hours) 
to Birmingham 

3 x trains per hour (in most hours) 
to Manchester (or take trains from St Pancras to Sheffield and connect there for Manchester)

1 or 2 x trains per hour 
to Liverpool

1 x train per hour 
to Chester and Glasgow* (fastest route)
*= or take trains from Kings Cross to Edinburgh and connect there for Glasgow

Less frequent trains
to Blackpool, Holyhead (for ferries to Dublin), Llandudno Junction, Oxenholme - The Lake District and Penrith North Lakes

Night trains
to Aberdeen, Aviemore, Dundee, Edinburgh, Fort William (Scottish Highlands), Glasgow, Inverness and Perth

For full details see the journey guides.

From and to Paddington

Paddington station is the gateway when travelling on to destinations west of London including Cornwall, Devon, The Cotswolds and South Wales.
This guide explains how to make the transfer to Paddington from St Pancras International.

More than 4 x trains per hour
to Slough (for Windsor)

2 x trains per hour 
to Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Oxford

1 or 2 x trains per hour 
to Exeter and Plymouth

1 x train per hour
to Moreton-In-Marsh (The Cotswolds) and Worcester

Less frequent trains
to Great Malvern, Hereford, Penzance, St Austell, Torquay and Truro

Night train
to Penzance, Plymouth, St Austell and Truro

For full details see the journey guides

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