And behind that is a vast new building in aluminium and concrete. Learn more…, Subject/theme: Feature: St Pancras Station, 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD | +44(0)20 7580 5533 |, Banister Fletcher History of Architecture 21st Edition. In 1923, St Pancras was transferred to the management of the London Midland & Scottish Railway; the LMS focused its activities on Euston, and so began the decline of St Pancras over the next 60 years. In 2012, Hitachi Class 395 EMUs will get you to the Stratford Olympics in seven minutes. St Pancras railway station , also known as London St Pancras and officially since 2007 as St Pancras International, is a central London railway terminus on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden. The new station is the conclusion of a dream about seamless travel that began when Europhoria following the 1751 Treaty of Amiens led to proposals for a Channel tunnel. The amazing new London Tunnel from Stratford to St Pancras is six miles long, an exercise in geometry and daring that wriggles between sewers and tubes and beneath 2,600 properties. It is likely these bricks were made and fired on site. The station was designed and constructed in two parts; the train shed and the hotel frontage. An additional train shed to the rear of Barlow’s original designed by architecture firm Foster & Partners enabled extended platforms to accommodate Eurostar trains. Proud to support The Railway Heritage Trust, People and the railway: The Railway Heritage Trust, Incredible Stephenson railway history rediscovered, Read the George Stephenson notebook online, Step back in time… and inside Britain's busiest signal box. London and Continental Railways, presiding genius over the whole Channel Tunnel Rail Link (which we must now call High Speed 1) has saved St Pancras, an achievement often attributed to John Betjeman. The new St Pancras International station officially opened on in November 2007 with Eurostar and East Midland services, and with Thameslink services joining that December. At 689 feet long, 240’ wide and 100’ high it was in 1868 the largest single-span building in the world. “Built on beer” above this undercroft is the station and its magnificent, single span, slightly pointed arched train shed designed by Barlow assisted by Rowland Mason Ordish. Some restive members of the crocodile were mumbling about the Millennium Dome crowd-control calamity. The original St Pancras was opened in 1868 after two years of construction. The face of St Pancras is an architectural phantasmagoria. the length of a beer barrel meaning that the train loads of beer could be easily stored at St Pancras. The limestone beautifully carved into intricate foliate designs. Like the approach to neighbouring King’s Cross station the tracks had to cross Regent’s Canal but Barlow chose to bridge over rather than tunnel under the canal hence giving St Pancras its elevated position. From the outset the station was designed to impress and to act as a showcase for the products and skills of the Midlands. Housing to accommodate the workers and others newly arrived in London followed with the development of Somers Town and Agar Town.

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