St Pancras – step 4 – answers to the exercise

1 The Queen of England, Queen Elizabeth II.
That is what the journalist means when he refers to the queen having opened ‘a venerable British institution’.
2 Guillaume Pépy, the Head of SNCF, the French railway.
3 The Times journalist, Alan Hamilton
4 Guillaume Pépy.
5 William Henry Barlow
6 Gordon Brown.
7 Ken Livingstone
8 David Cameron
9 Timothy West.
10 John Betjeman
11 London and Continental Railways
12 (The) Eurostar
13 Until now Eurostar trains have usually left London from Waterloo station, but from now on Eurostar will usually leave London from St Pancras station.