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Article: Joining the pieces of St. Pancras' jigsaw: integrating the crucial power, ventilation, and security systems in a station is a vital and sometimes overlooked part of construction. At London St Pancras International, the opening date has already been set, meaning the systems have to work perfectly from the off.(Station Systems)
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- International Railway Journal
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
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LONDON St Pancras is one of the most challenging station construction projects anywhere in the world, and the pressure is now on for it to open fully in November in time for the completion of Britain's first high-speed line, from London to the Channel Tunnel.
St Pancras is especially complex due to the number of interfaces within it. Eurostar will operate high-speed international services to Paris and Brussels; South Eastern Trains will, from around 2009, run 225km/h domestic services to the south coast using a new fleet of emus from Hitachi; Midland Main Line (MML) runs 200km/h trains to the north of England; a new underground station is being built for ...