1 February 2015 | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien | Rubric: General, House of the Month, London
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Model of the extended St Pancras station (left) and Kings Cross station (right) © Andrew Dunn – www.andrewdunnphoto.com/cc-by-sa-2.0
, also known as
London St Pancras and since 2007 as
St Pancras International, is a
central London railway terminus and Grade I listed building located on
Euston Road in the
St Pancras area of the
London Borough of Camden. It stands between the
British Library,
King’s Cross station and the
Regent’s Canal and is a structure widely known for its
Victorian architecture. It was opened in 1868 by the
Midland Railway as the southern terminus of
its mainline which connected London with the
East Midlands and
Yorkshire. When it opened, the arched
Barlow train shed was the largest single-span roof in the world.
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