Eurostar may cap services due to post-Brexit passport checks, warns station owner

Facilities at St Pancras too inadequate' to process new checks without hour-long queues' at peak times, says operator HS1

Eurostar could be forced to limit passenger numbers travelling from St Pancras each day under post-Brexit plans to bring in biometric border controls later this year, the owner of the station has warned.

HS1, the owner and operator of the line and stations between London and the Channel tunnel, has raised concerns that planning for new Entry/Exit System (EES) checks at the London rail station are severely inadequate", and would lead to long delays and potential capping of services and passenger numbers.