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Article: Express route to the continent; The Great Escape STEVE CHILTON enjoyed a luxury break in a London hotel, and then decided to take a quick trip under the Tunnel on Eurostar from the newly refurbished St Pancras station.(Features)
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- Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
- Article date:
- December 19, 2007
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Byline: STEVE CHILTON
THE opening of St Pancras station is great news for travellers from the Midlands heading for the continent.
No more trudging to Waterloo over the "wrong" side of the Thames.
The newly-restored St Pancras International, now home to Eurostar, is just a few minutes walk from Euston.
Arrival at the huge neo-Gothic "cathedral of stations" is an event in itself.
The pounds 800 million restoration hasn't perhaps fully achieved the glory and glamour of the golden age of rail.
But it is nevertheless highly ...