The rescue train arrived at London's St Pancras station at 0235 GMT on Monday.
The evening ceremony was compered by actor Timothy West playing St Pancras' designer William Barlow.
The work can be seen at St Pancras International, London until 31 January 2013.
The evening ceremony will involve three trains arriving at St Pancras and their drivers meeting the Queen.
King's Cross also got left behind by the new wave of 'retail destination' stations, like neighbouring St Pancras International.
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The 68-mile high speed railway line runs from St Pancras to the Channel Tunnel opening at Folkestone in Kent.
The 12-carriage trains will initially run between St Albans and St Pancras International.
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Southeastern's high speed service already stops at Stratford International from St Pancras International.
Speaking from St Pancras International finance manager Kirsty McIntyre said she had planned to spend the weekend in the Champagne region.
This will close on 8 December 2007 and a new underground station will open at St Pancras to accommodate longer trains.
Its distinctive gothic frontage, now housing St Pancras Chambers and once the Midland Grand Hotel, will re-open as a hotel in 2009.
The area between St Pancras and King's Cross is also being redeveloped.
No East Midlands' trains were running between Luton and St Pancras, while on Southeastern there were no Kentish Town to Denmark Hill trains.
She also foresees a spur linking Britain's only existing high-speed line (from the Channel Tunnel to London's St Pancras station) to Heathrow airport.
In addition to a modern extension designed to accommodate the 400 metre-long (1, 300ft) Eurostar trains, the existing building at St Pancras, will be refurbished.
Just behind Kings Cross station lies St Pancras cemetery, home to St Pancras Old Church, which has been a site of Christian worship since the 4th Century.
Now to be known as High Speed 1 (HS1), the 68-mile link runs from St Pancras to the Channel Tunnel opening at Folkestone, in Kent.
At the Javelin service at St Pancras International, there were huge queues right down to Euston Road at one point, but the crowd management system coped.
The event saw two Eurostar trains and a Hitachi Bullet Train, which will shuttle spectators to and from the 2012 Olympic Park, arriving at St Pancras.
St Pancras Coroners' Court heard on Thursday an out-of-hours doctor had booked Axel into a routine appointment when it should have been flagged up as urgent.
Eurostar is switching its terminal from Waterloo station to St Pancras and will be offering quicker journey times on services from London to Paris and Brussels.
Remember that the Eurostar station at St Pancras International does passport checks prior to departure, which can surprise travellers expecting the customs process to take place at arrival.
As you would expect, there will be bars, restaurants and retail outlets similar to St Pancras International, to make waiting for a train or a passenger more enjoyable.
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St Pancras coroner Dr Andrew Reid is holding a pre-inquest review where he will decide whether he or a top judge should hear the inquest into the death.
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The tunnel served the Butterley ironworks, near Ripley, which at its height employed 10, 000 people and provided much of the metal for St Pancras railway station in London.
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With passengers being warned to expect disruption for the rest of the day, trains were unable to run between St Pancras station in London and Luton in Bedfordshire.
The company said a reduced service was operating from Victoria station, and advised passengers to use Charing Cross, Cannon St, London Bridge and St Pancras stations as alternatives.
But the Treasury plans to sell it once it is no longer a storage yard for equipment being used to build the new St Pancras Channel Tunnel terminal.
The alternative to St Pancras would have stretched under the main King's Cross building, the carriage entrance on its north-west side, and a gasworks to the north, he says.
Linda Peanberg King, of Islington, north London, told St Pancras Coroner's Court she went to her GP once and the private Harmoni centre twice, after seven-week-old Axel fell ill.
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