 St Pancras. Gone. Michael McCarthy writes in the Independent: It was grimy but grand, murky but magnificent, and when it closed last night, something that was the very essence of railway travel in Britain disappeared. At 20 minutes to midnight, St Pancras station in London ceased to be the great Victorian gateway to the cities of the English East Midlands when the last express for Loughborough, Nottingham and Derby pulled out from William Barlow's steel and glass trainshed, one of the engineering wonders of the world when it was built in 1868.Thanks to this thing called Internet, here's a Virtual Tour of St Pancras, created by Jonathan Hall.
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