By Tim Ferguson, 8 October 2007 10:01
This is the impressive 1868 façade of St Pancras train station in London. The station is nearing completion after a 10 year renovation project making it into London's Eurostar terminal, which will take over from Waterloo on 14 November.
The station is the final element in the High Speed 1 rail link project which was initiated by the Channel Tunnel Rail Link Act in 1996.
silicon.com went along to the station a month before its official opening to take a look at what will - according to its developers, London and Continental Railways (LCR) - make it the most technologically advanced railway station in the world.
Photo credit: Tim Ferguson
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1. anonymous
Ah, but the time signal isn't broadcast from Rugby any more it's broadcast from Anthorn.
See http://www.npl.co.uk/time/msf/msf_questions.html
for more info.
2. Peter Trinder
PLEASE can we use proper English - It a 'Railway Station'
3. Alastair Macfadyen
It's unfortunate that the creeping americanisation of our language has been allowed to give this magnificent edifice the incorrect title of "train station".
St Pancras, along with all other such buildings, is a RAILWAY STATION.
4. Graham Coles
What's the point of having the most technologically advanced railway station, if the only things arriving at it are the current trains running on an appalingly bad railway infrastructure?