Planning to catch a Eurostar train between London and Amsterdam next summer?
Sorry, the bad news is that you might have to fly instead.
It was announced this week that Eurostar’s Amsterdam service could be facing a suspension of up to 11 months due to renovations to be undertaken at Amsterdam’s main railway station (above).
The work at the station will limit space, meaning a lack of facilities to complete post-Brexit passport checks for Eurostar Amsterdam travellers. Yet another Brexit bonus.
The work will last from June 2024 to May 2025, Travel Mole reports.
The Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure says it could complete the renovation work within seven months. But the best estimate is 11 months.
The work will eventually shift the Eurostar terminal to a lower level beneath the main rail station.
Eurostar Amsterdam trains run four times daily.
“We calculate it means 21 extra flights between Schiphol and London and that is crying shame,” Eurostar said in a statement.
Eurostar CEO Gwendoline Cazenave is in the Netherlands this week for talks with government officials.
Unless a solution can be found, the suspension would see the Eurostar network reduced from a pre-Brexit total of 13 year-round stations to just four: London, Lille, Paris and Brussels.
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