Reply Tue 16 Oct, 2007 04:35 pm
Hugh Pearman article HERE, in the GABION


The start of the article -

On November 14, you will be able to board a Eurostar train that will get you from London to Paris in a little over two hours, or to Brussels in a little under. Building the "High Speed One" international line has cost £5.8 billion, or nearly $10 billion at current rates. And where will you catch that train? The gothic fantasy of St. Pancras, a station that missed out on the 20th century altogether. It is an almost surreal conclusion to a 40-year saga....

http://www.hughpearman.com/2007/illustrations/stpancrassept07%20005a.jpg
(I'm not clear re the photo credit, probably HP, see article)


I suppose I could have put this under Europe.. but architectural and engineering design really is an art... especially when it works.

I'll be interested to find out if A2kers who go to and through the station have comments...
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 5 Nov, 2007 08:19 pm
The station opened today....

good article on it HERE.
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McTag
 
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Reply Sun 20 Apr, 2008 05:47 am
I've been there. Definitely worth a vizz.

I'll be back (BM)
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McTag
 
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Reply Sun 20 Apr, 2008 05:59 am
Big statue

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c277/Tags1/DSC_0545.jpg

Innocent bystander

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c277/Tags1/DSC_0548.jpg

Eurostar trains

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c277/Tags1/DSC_0553.jpg
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sun 20 Apr, 2008 06:09 am
Good pics - waiting for more.


(The statue, btw, was orginally designed to show the couple kissing but station organisers later considered it to be too "risqué". Artist Paul Day "Meeting Plac")
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McTag
 
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Reply Sun 20 Apr, 2008 07:20 am
Walter Hinteler wrote:
Good pics - waiting for more.


(The statue, btw, was orginally designed to show the couple kissing but station organisers later considered it to be too "risqué". Artist Paul Day "Meeting Plac")


Okay, wait a bit. The photographer was not too pleased with her pictures btw, and we didn't spend too long there, as we were schlepping our stuff onto the Tube and on up to my brother's.
The "undercroft", where all the shops and cafes are, is evidently very popular with travellers, tourists and passers-by. The floor above is where the trains and statues are. But of course, big openings for light and escalators connect the two.
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McTag
 
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Reply Sun 20 Apr, 2008 07:36 am
The international travellers have the corral in the middle.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c277/Tags1/DSC_0540.jpg

The statue is really quite splendid

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c277/Tags1/DSC_0544.jpg

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c277/Tags1/DSC_0543.jpg

A smaller one, of the poet John Betjeman. Evidently he was important to the campaign for preserving the former station from the developers.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c277/Tags1/DSC_0552.jpg
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farmerman
 
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Reply Sun 20 Apr, 2008 09:32 am
Isnt ST Pancras the patron saint of unemployment insurance?
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McTag
 
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Reply Sun 20 Apr, 2008 11:15 am
Hey, jokes about unemployment are coming from the land of the sub-prime mortgage lending morass.
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farmerman
 
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Reply Sun 20 Apr, 2008 11:23 am
McT, relax. Im dead serious. The CAtholic Church assigns patron saint responsibility to many of their dead guys. Im almost certain that St Pancras was a patron saint of employment and hence unemployment insurance.
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McTag
 
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Reply Sun 20 Apr, 2008 01:20 pm
Oh.

Catholics here were shunted by Henry VIII, no worries. In the C of E, St Pancras is the patron saint of lost property.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Sun 20 Apr, 2008 01:33 pm
Wonderful photos, McT..
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Sun 20 Apr, 2008 01:41 pm
yeah really good pics mct

who's the good looking innocent bystander?
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McTag
 
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Reply Mon 21 Apr, 2008 02:32 am
Steve 41oo wrote:
yeah really good pics mct

who's the good looking innocent bystander?


The appeal of the high victorian gothic style with its facade of ornamentation and its period charm is to be found chiefly on the outside of the subject, as with the railway station.

Smile
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Fri 10 Oct, 2008 11:27 pm
A report in today's Independent to a new fries at Pancras station:

http://i33.tinypic.com/14v692e.jpg

Online (with photos): An unusual and controversial welcome to Britain


(Might take some photos myself since I'll be in London in a fortnight.)
ossobuco
 
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Reply Sat 11 Oct, 2008 12:18 am
@Walter Hinteler,
Tnx, Walter.

(paying attention though I suppose I'll never visit)
Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Fri 28 Nov, 2008 05:04 pm
@ossobuco,
Since already all the best views have been posted here, I've tried to get some different perspective.

Here's one of my pics

http://i33.tinypic.com/2itgffk.jpg
Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Fri 28 Nov, 2008 05:09 pm
@Walter Hinteler,
And another one

http://i33.tinypic.com/2urwh94.jpg
ossobuco
 
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Reply Fri 28 Nov, 2008 05:13 pm
@Walter Hinteler,
That's 'wild', or wild-ish. I suppose you don't want me to give a discourse on high heels - the proportions are wrong, for right now, on the heel height. Art, so subject to mores.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Fri 28 Nov, 2008 05:15 pm
This is a more "normal" postcard photo

http://i37.tinypic.com/2ptcknn.jpg
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