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Article: THE REAL EURO-STAR - ; The dome: William Henry Barlow's roof, dating back to the 1860s, still makes travellers gasp in awe Gothic cathedral to the railway: St Pancras, cleaned, buffed and polished to its old splendour.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- September 14, 2007
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Byline: Michael Williams
ST PANCRAS was a 14-year-old Christian boy who was martyred in Rome bythe Emperor Diocletian.
In England, he is better known as a railway station. With these immortal words,Sir John Betjeman set in motion the most astonishing transformation of fortunesof any British building in modern times.
When the first Eurostar from Paris pulled in at its new link station at 12.46pmearlier this month after its record-breaking 2hr 3min run through the ChannelTunnel, who would have thought that just 40 years earlier, this magnificentlyrestored cathedral to the railway age was being proposed for demolition.
As they stepped off ...