Eurostar St Pancras tickets on sale today

Tickets for Eurostar's new, faster services from St Pancras International in London go on sale today.

The new services, which are set to shorten journey times by around 20 minutes, will start from November 14th 2007.

The trains will run at up to 186 miles per hour on a new high-speed rail line serving destinations including Paris, Lille and Brussels, stopping at the new Ebbsfleet International station on the way, located in north Kent.

Ashford will continue to have services to Paris, Lille, Disneyland Paris, Avignon and the French Alps, Eurostar explained.

The international rail carrier published its new timetable from St Pancras International last week, which will be in operation from December 9th 2007, with an interim timetable running until this date.

"For the first time business travellers can arrive seamlessly in Paris and Brussels before 9am, ready for a full day's work. We'll be running more trains, with half-hourly departures to Paris and hourly departures to Brussels at peak times," said Richard Brown, Eurostar chief executive.