Full steam ahead for "most technologically advanced train station in the world"...
By Tim Ferguson, 8 October 2007 10:01
Arriving passengers walk into the original Barlow train shed from the new part of the station where domestic trains have been continuing to operate.
The six Eurostar platforms are to the left.
The original train shed was the largest enclosed space in the world at the time of its construction in 1868 and it seems that it will once again become one of the major gateways into London.
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?