Eurostar has reported a 25.2% rise in sales for the first three months of 2008 (link below.)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7345813.stm

The high-speed passenger train service, linking Britain to mainland Europe, said sales rose to £178.4m ($352.4m), as passenger numbers increased by 21%.

It carried 2.17 million passengers from January to March, after seeing record passenger numbers during 2007.

The firm was helped by the move from Waterloo to St Pancras station, the completion of the London to Folkestone high speed link, the early Easter, the leap year and the Six Nations rugby union contest.

Numbers have also soared since last November with the introduction of low-cost through fares from 68 towns and cities across in Britain.

Demand from the East Midlands and Yorkshire was substantially up on the year before, and the West Midlands, Greater Manchester and Scotland all saw significant passenger increases.