Article: All change: St Pancras Station reopens this month as London's European terminal. Michael Hall reviews an incisive short history of a Victorian masterpiece.(BOOKS)(Book review)

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St Pancras Station SIMON BRADLEY Profile Books, 14.99 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9781861979964

On 14 November Eurostar opens its service between London and the continent on the new rail link connecting St Pancras Station with the Channel Tunnel. This is the first main line to be thrust into central London since the opening of Marylebone station in 1899. In 2001 work began on transforming St Pancras and the land around it in a vast engineering project that recalls the railway's arrival in the 1840s, smashing through the fight-packed terraces of north London. There is eager anticipation about the unveiling of St Pancras in its ...

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