Heritage railway stations · London
St Pancras railway station
St Pancras railway station — a Grade I-listed railway station in england-london, United Kingdom.
DS Pugh — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Free entry
- Wheelchair accessible
About
St Pancras railway station is a Grade I-listed building in england-london, United Kingdom. Grade I status is conferred by Historic England (or Cadw, Historic Environment Scotland or NIEA equivalents) on buildings of exceptional national interest. See the linked Wikipedia article for full historical and architectural details.
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From the Wikipedia article
St Pancras International () is a major central London railway terminus on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden. It is the terminus for Eurostar services from Belgium, France and the Netherlands to the UK. It provides East Midlands Railway services to Leicester, Corby, Derby, Sheffield, Luton Airport Parkway and Nottingham on the Midland Main Line (or MML), Southeastern high-speed trains to Kent via Ebbsfleet International and Ashford International, and Thameslink cross-London services to Bedford, Cambridge, Peterborough, Brighton, Horsham and Gatwick Airport. It stands between the British Library, the Regent's Canal and London King's Cross railway station. Beneath both main line stations is King's Cross St Pancras tube station on the London Underground; combined, they form one of the country's largest and busiest transport hubs. The station was constructed by the Midland Railway (MR), to connect its extensive rail network, across the Midlands and North of England, to a dedicated line into London. After rail traffic problems following the 1862 International Exhibition, the MR decided to build a connection from Bedford to London with its own terminus. The station was designed by William Henry Barlow, with wrought iron pillars supporting a single-span roof. At 689 feet (210 m) long by 240 feet (73 m) wide, and 100 feet (30 m) high, it was then the largest enclosed space in the world. Following the station's opening 1 October 1868, the MR built the Midland Grand Hotel on the station's façade. George Gilbert Scott won the competition to design it, with an ornate Gothic red-brick scheme. St Pancras has been widely praised for its architecture and is now a Grade I listed building. St Pancras came under threat during the 20th century; damaged in both World War I and World War II by bombs, and then in the late 1960s by plans to demolish it entirely and divert services to King's Cross and Euston stations. A passionate campaign to save the station, led by the Victorian…
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Background
History
The station's name comes from the St. Pancras parish, whose name originates from the fourth-century Christian boy martyr Pancras of Rome. The station was commissioned by the Midland Railway (MR), who had a network of routes in the Midlands and in south and west Yorkshire and Lancashire, but no route of its own to London. Before 1857 the MR used the lines of the L&NWR for trains into the capital; subsequently, the company's Leicester and Hitchin Railway gave access to London via the Great Northern Railway (GNR). In 1862, traffic for the second International Exhibition suffered extensive delays over the stretch of line into London over the GNR's track; the route into the city via the L&NWR…
Architecture
The original plan for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) involved a tunnel from south-east of London to an underground terminus in the vicinity of King's Cross. However, a late change of plan, principally driven by the then Secretary of State for the Environment Michael Heseltine's desire for urban regeneration in east London, led to a change of route, with the new line approaching London from the east. This opened the possibility of reusing St Pancras as the terminus, with access via the North London Line, which crosses the throat of the station. The idea of using the North London line was rejected in 1994 by the transport secretary, John MacGregor, as "difficult to construct and…
Visiting
at St Pancras Station]] In early November 2007, Eurostar conducted a testing programme in which some 6000 members of the public were involved in passenger check-in, immigration control and departure trials, during which the "passengers" each made three return journeys out of St Pancras to the entrance to the London tunnel. On 4 September 2007, the first test train ran from Paris Gare du Nord to St Pancras. Children's illustrator Quentin Blake was commissioned to provide a huge mural of an "imaginary welcoming committee" as a disguise for one of the remaining ramshackle Stanley Building South immediately opposite the station exit. St Pancras was officially re-opened as St Pancras…
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- Coordinates
- 51.5300, -0.1253
- District
- Camden
- Parish
- Camden, unparished area
- Postcode
- NW1 2AR
- Parliamentary constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Established
- 1868
- Official site
- pauldaysculpture.com
Sources
- wikidata: Q720102 (CC0)
- wikipedia: St Pancras railway station (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is St Pancras railway station?
- St Pancras railway station is in London, United Kingdom (postcode NW1 2AR), in the parish of Camden, unparished area.
- Who owns St Pancras railway station?
- St Pancras railway station is owned by HS1 Ltd.
- Is St Pancras railway station a listed building?
- St Pancras railway station is officially recognised as Grade I listed.
- Is St Pancras railway station free to visit?
- Yes, St Pancras railway station is free to enter.
- How do I get to St Pancras railway station?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode NW1 2AR. It sits within the Holborn and St Pancras parliamentary constituency.