That's why the cross-city link is crucial: once completed, in 2014, it will match that increase by doubling the capacity of the station.

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In January 1994 the then Transport Secretary, John MacGregor, told MPs that Union Railways - the company set up to construct the Channel Tunnel link - had concluded that "St Pancras is preferable to King's Cross as the terminus on environmental, operational and commercial grounds".

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