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If "any bike box within reason" was a full-size bike box that only needed you to turn the handlebars 90 degrees to fit in, and Eurostar are "happy to provide" said boxes, couldn't they just have a stack of these boxes at the stations? Big, rigid, heavy-duty and re-usable, with hinged end panels?
You cycle to the luggage depot at the station.
Eurostar bring you out a box.
You twist your bars, wheel it into the box, close the box.
Eurostar take the boxes away, stack them next to each other on the train.
You take the train.
You go to the luggage depot at the destination station.
You open your box, wheel your bike out, twist and tighten the bars back up, and cycle away.
Eurostar store the empty boxes.
They won't though, will they.