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Article: Futuristic joins gothic at new-look St Pancras
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 5, 2001
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THE gothic redbrick frontage of St Pancras station has imposed its
austere authority on the streets of
King's Cross for more than 100 years.
Now the station is to get a gleaming upgrade and an international
role in the capital's railway system.
Along with King's Cross station, St Pancras has been the centre of
rail travel to and from north London ever since steam locomotives
puffed their way to and from the country in the Victorian era.
Left unloved over the years it is now rundown in appearance, like
the forlorn streets it overlooks. However, it has been thrown a multi-
millionpound lifeline that, by 2007, should have transfor med it into
a redesigned and renovated station for the 21st ...