Eurostar Group: strong momentum across Europe
The company aims to carry 30 million passengers a year by 2030. To support this goal, it has placed a €2 billion order with Alstom for up to 50 new trains—30 firm orders and options on 20 more.
Over 20 million passengers in 2025
Eurostar Group carried more than 20 million passengers in 2025, up 500,000 from 2024. With a network that now spans five countries and 28 destinations, Eurostar reached another milestone during the year: over 400 million passengers carried since its launch in 1994.
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20m
Eurostar passengers carried in 2025
+500,000
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400m
passengers carried since Eurostar’s launch in 1994
Fast-growing routes
Core routes with the strongest passenger growth in 2025 include:
- London - Amsterdam (+18.3%)
- Paris - London (+5%)
- Paris - Brussels (+3.7%)
Our new "Eurostar Celestia" will launch in 2031
On 22 October 2025, Eurostar announced its order for 30 new trains, with an option for a further 20, from Alstom: a €2 billion investment (including €1.4 billion for Alstom) as the Group gears up to reach 30 million annual passengers by 2030.
Named Eurostar Celestia, from the Latin word caelestis meaning "celestial", this new fleet will be interoperable across all five countries served today plus new destinations Geneva and Frankfurt.
Designed with sustainability and accessibility at its core, supporting the company’s long-term environmental goals, these future trainsets will offer 20% more seat capacity and increased comfort. They will bring the total fleet to 67 trains – a 30% uplift overall versus today.
100 renewable energy
Eurostar Group has also committed to powering its trains with 100% renewable energy by 2030. The Group has indeed joined the RE1002 alliance of companies committed to sourcing 100% renewable energy in order to start working with partners and regulators towards this goal. In the Netherlands, Eurostar trains have been running on 100% wind power since 2017, and in the UK this figure has risen to 40% since 2023.
A sustainable alternative to air and road
The new Eurostar Group can whisk passengers from London to Paris in 2h15, London to Amsterdam in 3h52 and Paris to Amsterdam in 3h19. Serving 5 countries and a catchment area of 245 million consumers, it has the largest high-speed network in Western Europe. Its purpose is to accelerate the modal shift to rail by offering an attractive alternative to road and air transport.
About Eurostar Group
The Eurostar-Thalys merger effort was launched in September 2019 and approved by the European Commission in late March 2022. The Eurostar Group holding company was founded on 1 May 2022, with SNCF Voyages Développement (a subsidiary of SNCF Voyageurs) taking 55.75% of its shares. Other shareholders are CDPQ with 19.31%, SNCB with 18.50%, and funds managed by Federated Hermes Infrastructure with 6.44%. The holding company is based in Brussels and owns 100% of shares in Eurostar International Limited (Eurostar) and THI Factory SA (Thalys), which remain rail companies in their own right. Eurostar is headquartered in London and Thalys in Brussels.
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