{"id":30510,"date":"2026-07-27T15:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/30510\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:47:12","slug":"direct-london-to-antwerp-trains-from-eurostar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/30510\/","title":{"rendered":"Direct London to Antwerp Trains From Eurostar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Author:<br \/>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/oleksandr-batrak-558259112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><br \/>\n        Batrak Oleksandr<br \/>\n    <\/a><br \/>\n    \u2014 Editor-in-Chief at Railway Supply<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-date mb-4\">27.07.2026 <\/p>\n<p>UK\u2013BELGIUM: Eurostar will launch four daily direct London to Antwerp trains on 14 December 2026, cutting the journey to 2 hours 41 minutes and removing the current change at Brussels-Midi\/Zuid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railway.supply\/eurostar-to-launch-four-daily-direct-london-antwerp-trains\/img_4523\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-185332 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-185332 size-full\" title=\"Eurostar train beside passengers at London St Pancras International\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/img_4523.webp\" alt=\"Eurostar train beside passengers at London St Pancras International\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\"  \/><\/a>A Eurostar train at London St Pancras International. Photo: FrogsLegs71 \/ Wikimedia Commons \/ CC BY-SA 3.0<br \/>\nDirect trains will save 34 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2026\/07\/26\/eurostar-is-launching-a-new-direct-route-from-london-to-antwerp-this-december\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new one-way direct service<\/a> will run from London St Pancras International to Antwerpen-Centraal. It will be Eurostar\u2019s first direct London-to-Antwerp connection, giving UK passengers a through journey to the Belgian port city.<\/p>\n<p>Today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurostar.com\/us-en\/train\/london-to-antwerp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eurostar\u2019s London-to-Antwerp itinerary<\/a> sends passengers to Brussels-Midi\/Zuid, where they transfer to an SNCB train for the final section. Eurostar lists a total journey time of about 3 hours 15 minutes and allows the combined journey to be booked in a single transaction. The 2-hour 41-minute direct train will therefore reduce the scheduled trip by 34 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>For the current itinerary, Eurostar says the SNCB connection ticket is valid on any train along the same route that day, reducing the impact if a passenger misses the planned connection.<\/p>\n<p>The operator plans four scheduled departures a day in the London-to-Antwerp direction. The change will add Antwerp as a direct destination from London but will not create an equivalent direct trip back to the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.railway.supply\/amtrak-moves-richmond-converter-replacement-into-design\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amtrak Moves Richmond Converter Replacement Into Design<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Return trips will still require a Brussels transfer<\/p>\n<p>Eurostar currently has no plan to run direct Antwerp-to-London trains. According to the operator, Antwerpen-Centraal does not have the dedicated UK border and customs facilities needed for direct departures to London.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers returning from Antwerp will therefore continue to use an SNCB service to Brussels before boarding Eurostar. The operator\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurostar.com\/uk-en\/train\/antwerp-to-london\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Antwerp-to-London travel page<\/a> currently gives a total journey time of about 3 hours 50 minutes for that itinerary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railway.supply\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News on railway transport<\/a>, industry, and railway technologies from Railway Supply that you might have missed:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Author: Batrak Oleksandr \u2014 Editor-in-Chief at Railway Supply 27.07.2026 UK\u2013BELGIUM: Eurostar will launch four daily direct London to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[19,16459,3080,16675,3868],"class_list":["post-30510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-antwerp","tag-antwerp","tag-high-speed-trains","tag-passenger-rail-transportation","tag-rail-transport-in-the-uk","tag-railway-traveling"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116992727173355060","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}