The implementation of a new EU border system has been “quite encouraging” at London’s St Pancras railway station, a Eurostar executive said. Simon Lejeune, the cross-Channel train operator’s chief safety and stations officer, told peers that some passengers are being processed through the Entry Exit System (EES) in 50 seconds.

EES, introduced on Sunday, involves people from third-party countries such as the UK having their fingerprints registered and photograph taken to enter the Schengen area, which consists of 29 European countries, mainly in the EU. For most UK travellers the EES process will be done at foreign airports.

But travellers boarding international services from St Pancras, the Port of Dover and Eurotunnel’s Folkestone terminal complete the checks in the UK. Eurostar has cre

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