The works, which will include demolishing and replacing the station’s international rail terminal, are estimated to run from June 2024 to April 2025.
Eurostar currently operates four trains a day between London and the Dutch capital, offering capacity equivalent to around 20 flights at a fraction of the carbon output.
Eurostar estimates passengers’ carbon footprint from just one London-Amsterdam flight is equivalent to seven Eurostar journeys between the two capitals.
The service has been in operation for just over five years now, and has carried in excess of 1.6 million passengers since the inaugural journey in April 2018.
In a letter to the Dutch parliament last week, the country’s infrastructure minister Vivianne Heijnen confirmed services would not be able to depart Amsterdam for the UK due to work at Amsterdam Central station, which could run for "seven to 11 months".
Last year, Heijnen told Dutch MPs it would be "unacceptable" if the renovation works were to prevent Eurostar services from operating between the Netherlands and the UK.
The Netherlands’ state rail infrastructure firm, ProRail, had previously intimated it was hopeful of identifying a new, temporary location for Eurostar departures.
Eurostar chief executive Gwendoline Cazenave met with ProRail, Netherlands Railways and the country’s infrastructure ministry on Monday (5 June) to discuss developments, stressing she was "convinced" a solution could be found to maintain services between London, Rotterdam and Amsterdam during the works.
