Eurostar, the high speed train service from London to the continent, said it will move to its new station, St. Pancras International in north London in a year's time.
The new station will be served by the UK's first high speed rail line, High Speed 1 which will cut up to 25 minutes off train times to Paris and Brussels.
Richard Brown, ceo of Eurostar, said the new fastest times between London and Paris would be two hours, 15 minutes, London-Brussels 1 hour 51 minutes and London-Lille 1 hour 20 minutes.
He also said services from St. Pancras, Brussels and Paris would start earlier, getting business travellers to the continent by 9am and to London by 8am, "allowing them time for a full day's work."
The last trains from the three stations would also be later than now.
Mr Brown said that would after the move to St. Pancras, there would be a minimum of 17 trains a day to Paris and 10 a day to Brussels. On weekdays and holidays, there would be many more services.
Mr Brown said Eurostar was also looking at the possibility of running services to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris because of the growing network of TGV trains servicing the airport and the opportunities for interlining there with air services.
St. Pancras International, now being built as part of the major re-furbishment of the existing mainline station will open on November 14, 2007.
Eurostar is planning to run services from its current London terminal Waterloo International until the evening of November 13 and then switch overnight to St. Pancras to minimise disruption.
Mr Brown said: "This move will be the most significant event in Eurostar's history since we started running passenger services 12 years ago today.
"It will mark the start of a new era in travel between the UK and mainland Europe, making high-speed rail an even faster, more reliable and less environmentally damaging alternative to flying."
Mr Guillaume Pepy, Eurostar chairman, said 2007 would see three advances in the high speed rail network of Europe.
Besides the opening of the UK's first high speed line, the East TGV service between Paris and Strasbourg would open as well as the high speed link between Brussels and Amsterdam.
Mr Pepy said the East TGV would cut travel times between Paris and Strasbourg to two hours 20minuytes as well as link up with services to Munich, Frankfurt, Luxembourg and Zurich.
The other new link would cut the journey time between the two cities to under 90 minutes.
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