Photos: High-tech London St Pancras on track

Full steam ahead for "most technologically advanced train station in the world"...

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. 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.

    • 9 October 2007 09:33
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  2. 2. Peter Trinder

    PLEASE can we use proper English - It a 'Railway Station'

    • 9 October 2007 10:42
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  3. 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.

    • 9 October 2007 11:59
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  4. 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?

    • 10 October 2007 14:40
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