Greenpeace held a protest at St Pancras Station today
The purpose of the protest was to make the public aware of the success of the revamped station and to get more people to use it to get to Paris and Belguim and to stop using the airports
Can we get the detail right please Jim? The protest was not at St Pancras, it was at St Pancras International. The latter is the Eurostar Terminal for Europe. The former serves Midland Mainline, which serves Derby, Nottingham, Leeds, Burton-upon Trent etc, with stops at Luton Parkway (for the Airport), Luton, Bedford, Kettering, Wellingborough, Market Harborough, & Leicester (interestingly, all MM trains stop at Leicester &/or Derby & Nottingham). Oddly, the Nottingham trains leave Nottingham from the same direction from whence they came, (it's a dead loop) so forward facing passengers find themselves facing backwards. They use a mixture of plastic "Meridian" sets, (4 & 8 car), & HST hauled 8 carriage slam-door rakes. (Not too many slam-door rolling stock left these days). The HST's have been in use since the 70's, & are the most charismatic & beautiful Diesel Locos in use today. Though hardly "green", spewing out, as they do, oodles of filthy diesel exhaust.
PS - Corby is no longer used, you get off at Kettering & a MM Bus takes passengers to Corby.
Corby hasn't had a train station for years now. But that's going to change as the green light has been given for a new station to be built. Not sure if it's going to be on a different mainline to Kettering though - it would make sense if it was.
Corby is the largest town in Europe without a train station.
It also only has one nightclub, the lowest percentage of graduates in the town's population of any town in the UK, the highest percentage of people off sick in the UK, one of the best state schools in the country, a population made up of many first and second generation Scots (the typical Corby accent is Glaswegian), and was the place I spent my teenage years, and in 2001 had a population of a little under 55,000. With all the new house building in Corby, the population might possibly double by the year 2020.
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