The station
Ebbsfleet International has been constructed by London & Continental Railways the organisation responsible for the delivering the UK’s first high speed line – High Speed 1 (formerly known as the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.)
500 tonnes of structural steel and 2200 square metres of glass has been used, to create a station as long as a football pitch, 45 metres high, and with six platforms, two for Eurostar services, four for high speed domestic journeys. To connect with other networks they have allowed for parking of 9000 cars and built a new 1.6mile link between High Speed One and the old North Kent Line. Above all, the new High speed line (HS1) will transport passengers at 186mph – a speed not seen before in England. With this line, Ebbsfleet International will be connected to the continent in just over and hour and from 2009 (when the high speed domestic services start) to St Pancras International in just 17 minutes.