Eurostar to Brussels - how do we get to Bruges?

I know that there are trains but I want to try and get the tickets in advance for the onward hrs long journey for outbound and return or at least find a timetable - can anyone help - trainline.com and eurostar don%26#39;t seem able to help

Many thanks in advance for your help.

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Your Eurostar ticket is good for onward travel to Bruges. Same station, just around the corner. If I remember right I think the trains to Bruges depart about every thirty minutes. This past summer when I did this trip we just missed the train, but waited less than 30 minutes for the next one.

You will have to pay for a return to Brussels though.

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If you are coming on Eurostar, you will already have your ticket as it includes onward travel to any Belgian station (ABS), for free - provided that this is within 24 hrs of your arrival in Bxl! You just have to get off the Eurostar at Bruxelles-Midi and transfer to a local train for Brugge, which takes 1 hr on the InterCity (IC) trains bound for Oostende or Knokke/ Blankenberge. You cannot book seats on these trains so unlike for Eurostar, you will not have an assigned seat and carriage number. You just take whichever train is convenient for continuing your journey, of which there are at least 2 ICs an hour (and IR stopping trains, which take nearly twice as long, as well).

For timetables use reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en, indicating Bruxelles-Midi (or if you prefer, London St. Pancras, when it will also give you connections) as departure and Brugge (not Brugge St. Pieters, it will ask you to choose) as destination, or of course vice versa for the return.

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P.S. Contrary to what is stated in the first response, you do not have to pay for the return from Brugge to Brussels if you are continuing on to London on Eurostar within 24 hrs of arriving in Bxl on return journey! ABS option applies as much to the return as the outward journey, you would only need to pay if you were not returning to London, or if you were breaking your journey in Brussels for more than 24 hrs.

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Super - I am sure that the question had been asked many times before but I just wanted to check.

Much obliged