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St Pancras railway station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia St Pancras station is a railway station in north central London, United Kingdom, between the new British Library building to its west and King's Cross station to the east. St Pancras station spires; in the foreground is the trainshed undergoing renovation. St Pancras was built in the 19th century, and includes two of the most celebrated structures built in Britain in the Victorian era. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/St_Pancras_railway_station   (2546 words)

King's Cross railway station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pancras railway station was used, as its Gothic façade was considered more impressive than the real King's Cross. King's Cross station is a railway station in the King's Cross district of north east central London. The King's Cross fire of 1987, in which 31 people died, was at the adjacent King's Cross St. Pancras Underground station. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/King's_Cross_railway_station   (1364 words)

St. Pancras Station, London Pancras the terminus of the Midland Railway, is, with the exception of the Gt. The station entrance for cabs and carriages is on the west side of the station from Euston-rd, whence also on the east side a subway for foot passengers only leads at a sharp incline up to the end platform, connecting the departure with the arrival side. Each girder is broad at the base, tapering gradually as it bends over to meet its fellow, and the whole station is thus simply a vast roof springing directly from the ground, the brick walls at the side being in fact mere screens of no structural value in the way of support. www.victorianweb.org /art/architecture/pancras/1.html   (382 words)

Arts Unlimited Arts features St Pancras station's facelift St Pancras is now to be the showpiece of a £600m railway construction project. In short, this is the plan: from 2007, St Pancras station, expanded from eight to 13 platforms, will be the principal London terminus for Eurostar trains scything through the North Downs, under the Thames and by means of viaducts and tunnels to North Pole Junction, the Regent's Canal and Barlow's train shed. A revived St Pancras will lead on to the rebuilding and restoration of King's Cross station next door, and to the wider regeneration, already under way, of the local area. arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,11710,797009,00.html   (1236 words)

History of St Pancras railway station, Midland Grand Hotel, St Pancras Chambers, Euston Road, England, London UK History of St Pancras railway station, Midland Grand Hotel, St Pancras Chambers, Euston Road, England, London UK « Midland Grand home In May 1865, (while the station was still being constructed), the Midland Railway Company launched a competition for the design of a 150 bed hotel, with eleven architects asked to submit their entries. The new station was designed by Engineer-in-Chief to the Midland Railway, W.H. Barlow (1812-1902) was had previously helped Paxton with his design for the famous Great Exhibition building. www.urban75.org /london/st_pancras1.html   (884 words)

Railways On Line - St Pancras Station View of St Pancras Station on 6 June 1951, with LNWR-type signals showing on the right and the St Pancras hotel edifice behind the station roof. View of the Midland Grand Hotel which fronts St Pancras Station. The trainshed was built in 1868 for the Midland Railway company by W.H. Barlow and is now recognised as the greatest example of Victorian monumental Gothic in the country. www.hmilburn.easynet.co.uk /enthuse/stations/lms/stpancras.htm   (513 words)

The Railways (Closure Provisions) (Exemptions) (St. Pancras) Order 2001 "St. Pancras station" means the railway station that is situated at St. Pancras, adjacent to the Euston Road, London, NW1. This Order provides that section 41 of the Railways Act 1993 (notification of proposals to close of railway facilities used in connection with passenger services) is not to apply to St. Pancras railway station in London. (b) the railway lines running to St. Pancras station from the junction immediately beneath the bridge known as "Bridge number 13", which carries the North London Line over the Midland Main Line; www.opsi.gov.uk /si/si2001/20011768.htm   (705 words)

Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society St Pancras station and hotel are now admired architecturally but at one time were considered vulgar. The area to the north of King's Cross and St Pancras Stations was generally regarded as the best in London for industrial archaeology but recent redevelopment has changed this. This famous station was built relatively cheaply (£123,500) and has long been admired architecturally. www.glias.org.uk /walks/kgx.html   (836 words)

London Sights / Attractions However, the station's entrance is not without virtue, comprising as it does, of a medieval cloister with a main arched passage, flanked on either side by two smaller passages. Originally serving as the deer park of St. James's palace (which is across on the other side of The Mall) it was turned into a garden/park during the 17th century at the behest of King Charles II. Although beached on an island in the middle of the Strand, St. Mary's is a charming Baroque style church, built by James Gibbs in 1717. www.talkingcities.co.uk /london_pages/sights_alpha12.htm   (2646 words)

station * Intelligent Workstations for Professionals Proceedings... Stations of the Nativity Meditations on the Incarnation of Christ. Stations of the Resurrection Meditations on the Fourteen Resurrection Appearances. Stations for Teens Meditations on the Death and Resurrection of Jesus. www.riffhai.com /riffuuustation.html   (1186 words)

Patrons: Great Libraries of the World: New British Library In all its flawed grandeur, the new British Library at St. Pancras is a signal achievement. Yet all these matters were eventually resolved, and the officially-titled British Library at St. Pancras was opened with great fanfare by Queen Elizabeth II on June 25, 1998. It was discouraging to cross a large entry courtyard virtually devoid of trees, benches and landscaping: a bare stone surface with gratuitous steps going up only to go down again, an impediment to the disabled and a peril to those whose eyes were lifted to architecture. www.library.fullerton.edu /Patrons/patrons_new_british_library.htm   (985 words)

BBC NEWS England Church welcomes new graves plan The graves had first been disturbed in the 19th Century when St Pancras railway station was built. The cemetery, near St Pancras station in north London, dates back to the 18th Century and includes the graves of refugees who fled to England during the French revolution in 1789. The Reverend Nicholas Wheeler, who is in charge of St Pancras Old Church, adjacent to the burial site, said the new plans were "an improvement". news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/2541121.stm   (359 words)

European Federation of City Farms Skylinks connect the three airport terminals to the upper level of the railway station. The Trent Barton Rainbow 58 connects the airport to Long Eaton railway station in ½ hr. If you are arriving by bus or coach, make your way from the bus station (191 on the right of the map) to the front of the train station. efcf.vgc.be /sheffield.html   (745 words)

a300 St. Pancras Station The MR continued to use their running powers into Euston Station over track owned by the London and North Western Railway Company but neither arrangement was entirely satisfactory as, quite naturally, the other companies gave priority to their own traffic. The Midland Railway reached the Great Northern Railway main line at Hitchin in May 1857 and by the 1st of February 1858 Midland Railway trains were running into the capital over Great Northern Railway Company tracks. Extensive clearance of slum dwellings in an area called Agar Town for the proposed site at St. Pancras was necessary and even the relatively new church of St. Luke had to be demolished and rebuilt elsewhere. www.redfern83.freeserve.co.uk /St_Pancras_Station/a300_st_pancras_station.html   (443 words)

B-G Forums - St Pancras Station In the mid 1960's he was awarded 'a gold watch' for 40 years service and was working at St Pancras Station in London. I have just found a site which suggests that the boat train from St Pancras may have gone to Stranraer in Scotland. Railway records, those of which that survive are kept at the TNA in Kew see www.british-genealogy.com /forums/showthread.php?t=319   (649 words)

Print Article: Visiting all the game's colours The grandiose 19th-century architecture of St Pancras Railway Station is worth a look, as is St Pancras Church, which resembles aspects of Athens' Acropolis. The only pub actually on the board is The Angel, which is opposite the underground railway station of the same name. Marylebone Station was more of a household name than Buckingham Palace, yet I never understood the significance of either property. www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/11/08/1036308479179.html   (1498 words)

The Clifton Suspension Bridge Barlow is famous for his work with railways, in particular with the Midland Railway and St Pancras railway station in London. Hawkshaw designed the Hungerford Bridge over the River Thames into the then new railway station at Charing Cross. He invented a new system of rails which were wide enough to be laid down directly onto ballast without the use of sleepers. www.clifton-suspension-bridge.org.uk /news2.php?id=31   (234 words)

Edward Baber This church has no connection with modern well-known area around the nineteenth century St Pancras railway station, which is well outside the boundaries of the seventeenth century City of London. In Leland's time the fine old manor house of the St. Loes here was evidently one of his stations in surveying the county. The St. Loes continued to hold the place till Sir William St. Loe, captain of the Guard to Queen Elizabeth and styled chief butler of England, settled it, with other possessions here-about and in Gloucester, upon his wife the celebrated Bess of Hardwicke. baberfamilytree.org /Balmer/edward_baber.htm   (4067 words)

Opposing Forces in Victorian Architecture -- The Example of St. Pancras Looking at massive structures like London's St. Pancras Railway Station and attached gothic building, which began its existence as a luxurious hotel, one sees the Victorians trying both modes at the same time. Either we build industrial structures in such a way that they fit into received categories of beauty, or else we refashion those categories so that they fit the railway station and the factory. The station itself, particularly the covered train shed, embodied pure engineering while the appeneded station structure, which often included a hotel, embodied aesthetic opportunities. www.victorianweb.org /art/architecture/pancras/conflict1.html   (341 words)

Victorian London - Publications - History - The Queen's London : a Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Streets, Buildings, Parks and Scenery of the Great Metropolis, 1896 - St. Pancras Station : The Exterior On the right of the picture is shown the entrance to King's Cross railway station, the terminus of the Great Northern Railway, with part of the Station Hotel. Victorian London - Publications - History - The Queen's London : a Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Streets, Buildings, Parks and Scenery of the Great Metropolis, 1896 - St. Pancras Station : The Exterior Vehicles enter the station through the arch under the western tower, and leave through the one nearer the centre of our view. www.victorianlondon.org /ql/queenslondon369.htm   (210 words)

Railway Technology - The roof of the new St Pancras station is under construction. Railway Technology - The roof of the new St Pancras station is under construction. The roof of the new St Pancras station is under construction. Home > Industry Projects > Heavy Railways > Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) www.railway-technology.com /projects/chunnel/chunnel9.html   (50 words)

Amazon.co.uk: St. Pancras Station: Books Pancras station and its Midland Grand Hotel manage to combine high art and design with a masterpiece of engineering in an incredible, exuberant, completely 'over-the-top' statement of Victorian company confidence. When he wrote his account of the London railway station (1968, George Allen and Unwin), not only did it demonstrate his devotion to incorporating artifacts and social history into descriptions of the past, it also contributed greatly to the preservation of the st This new edition is revised and enhanced with interesting new photographs and plans, and an additional chapter by architectural historian Robert Thorne about the revival of St. Pancras. www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0948667680   (519 words)

Greg Hawkes (In London) The map of London's Underground railway is clear, concise, easy to use, instantly recognisable, and a example of classic design. Looking west from the bridge over St. James' lake on a beautiful sunny autumn day, this is my favourite view of London. Looking east from the same bridge, toward Duck Island and the Admiralty building. users.bigpond.net.au /rivergum/travel/199711   (332 words)

UNBAR 6 Travel and Accommodation Information London Luton airport is on the London – Nottingham railway line.There are a few direct trains from Luton Airport to Nottingham, otherwise travel from Luton Airport station either to Luton or to Bedford and change to a Nottingham train. St Pancras station is at the King’s Cross Underground (Metro) stop which is served by direct Underground trains to London Gatwick airport has a railway station from which you should take a “Thameslink” train to either Luton or Bedford and then change to the Nottingham train. www.nottingham.ac.uk /u6/u6travelandhotels.htm   (826 words)

Overdue Metropolis Magazine October 1999 The library's neighbors include Gilbert Scott's flamboyant red brick Gothic Revival St. Pancras railway station, a series of bleak but harmless postwar office buildings, and, to one side, a housing project from the Twenties, modeled on the social housing of Red Vienna. The most demanding neighbor is St. Pancras, because of both its size and its extraordinary quality. Finally complete after a 36-year slog (as much time, the architect likes to point out, as it took to build St. Paul's), the project has been a nightmare of changing site and program, financial obstacles and critical assaults, foot-dragging, cultural warfare, Tory philistinism, and harassment by the egregious Charles. www.metropolismag.com /html/content_1099/oc99wgu.htm   (1699 words)

St. Pancras - Saint of the Day - American Catholic St. Pancras Railway Station in London got its name from an early Christian martyr about whom we have very little information. Pope Gregory the Great built a monastery for Benedictines and, when Augustine of Canterbury (a Benedictine) came to England, he named the first church he erected after Pancras. Pancras (Pancratius) appears in fictionalized form in Cardinal Wiseman’s novel Fabiola. www.americancatholic.org /Features/Saints/saint.asp?id=1382   (310 words)

History of St John's In 1547 however, King Edward VI seized all the ‘Free Chapels' and in 1551 the chapel at Epping was vested in trustees under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of London. The connection between the two churches is maintained within St John’s; the Chapel to the left of the High Altar is known as the ‘All Saints’ Chapel' after the dedication of the Church at Epping Upland. Under the Epping Act which allowed for the building of St. John’s, eight seats were reserved in the Church for the ‘owner and occupier’ of Copt (Copped) Hall and a further six for their servants. www.eppinganglicans.org.uk /HistoryPage.htm   (2661 words)

Verdigris The ship, which looks exactly like St Pancras railway station, is populated by characters from works of literature, all of whom are preparing to board trains for departure. The people from the railway carriage are taken to hospital, where one of them awakens, claims that her name is Mrs Bennett, and asks the Doctor to care for her daughters. As soon as the coast is clear she enters the mirror ball, which shuts up behind her; she forgets her handbag behind, however, and eventually the troll enters the building and collects both it and the cardboard Yates. www.drwhoguide.com /whobbk30.htm   (3160 words)

St. Pancras Station Museum/Attraction Review London Frommers.com The London terminus for the Midland Railway, St. Pancras Station (built from 1863-67) is a masterpiece of Victorian engineering. Designed by W. Barlow, the 679-foot-long (207m) glass-and-iron train station spans 236 feet (72m) in width and rises to a peak of 98 feet (30m) above the rails. The platforms were raised 20 feet (6m) above the ground because the tracks ran over the Regent's Canal before entering the station. www.frommers.com /destinations/london/A24152.html   (219 words)

Nat' Academies Press, Degrees Kelvin: A Tale of Genius, Invention, and Tragedy (2004) After years of planning, the university relocated to a new building, designed in high Victorian style by George Gilbert Scott, who had been responsible a few years earlier for that most magnificent of Victorian buildings, St. Pancras railway station in London. As long ago as 1845, James Thomson had written to his son in Cambridge to say that the railway company had agreed to buy the old college site for £30,000, in order to build a new railway station for Glasgow, and would kick in another £70,000 to help the university move. But the railway boom came to a bust a few years later, and the deal fell through. www.nap.edu /books/0309090733/html/195.html   (569 words)

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