The excitement mounts.......

[TightEnd]

http://www.stpancras.com/

After several years of refurbishment the architecturally stunning St Pancras station re-opens soon as a cross-channel International terminal

My excitement is building...

Consider this thread a gift tikay...enjoy!!

[Snatiramas]

St. Pancras, after whom this district is named, was a young Phrygian nobleman who suffered martyrdom at Rome under the Emperor Diocletian for his adherence to the Christian faith; he became a favourite saint in England.

A liitle ancient history for you Tikay

[Snatiramas]

As lately as the year 1745, there were only two or three houses near the church, and twenty years later the population of the parish was under six hundred. At the first census taken in the present century it had risen to more than 35,000, and in 1861 it stood at very little under 200,000. There has, however, been a decrease since that time on account of the extensive clearances made for the terminus of the Midland Railway, of which we shall speak presently.


More good stuff

[kinboshi]

St. Pancras, after whom this district is named, was a young Phrygian nobleman who suffered martyrdom at Rome under the Emperor Diocletian for his adherence to the Christian faith; he became a favourite saint in England.

A liitle ancient history for you Tikay

He remembers it well.  I think he played HU against him in the Colosseum (an early EPT event).

[Snatiramas]

In the following year the same railway company obtained further powers from the Legislature (who offered little or no opposition) to take a corner of the St. Pancras Churchyard for part of their main line, ostensibly for the purpose of erecting a pier for the viaduct which crosses the entire yard, and which, from being constructed on arches, would be the means of allowing trains to be constantly flying past the very windows of the church, and at the same time to be rumbling over the tombs of the hallowed dead.

Rumbling over the tombs of the hallowed dead..........don't be surprised if you see a ghost or two

[AndrewT]

As lately as the year 1745, there were only two or three houses near the church, and twenty years later the population of the parish was under six hundred. At the first census taken in the present century it had risen to more than 35,000, and in 1861 it stood at very little under 200,000. There has, however, been a decrease since that time on account of the extensive clearances made for the terminus of the Midland Railway, of which we shall speak presently.

More good stuff

Around that time, London as we know it hadn't got that far north - Oxford Street was as far as it had got. Tottenham Court Road had farms either side of it.

[AndrewT]

Isn't this thread in the wrong place - shouldn't it be in The Rail?

Anyway, they had a test day at St Pancras yesterday and one blogger was there.

http://londonist.com/2007/11/instant_bloggin.php

[kinboshi]

Isn't this thread in the wrong place - shouldn't it be in The Rail?

[Delboy]

This is quite amazing:

With this new terminal it would quicker for me to get to Paris than it does to drive to Brighton!

[Snatiramas]

This is quite amazing:

With this new terminal it would quicker for me to get to Paris than it does to drive to Brighton!

And both such wonderfully Gay cities

Got some great shoes in Brighton mind

[Rod Paradise]

Isn't this thread in the wrong place - shouldn't it be in The Rail?

TBH he's right - but if Obergrupenfuhrer Tightend's put it here I'm scared to move it