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| No date for this great postcard of St Pancras - from the buses, it looks to be just pre-WW1 |
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| An artist's view of St Pancras Station. |
| A nice early view of St Pancras. |
| A couple of Midland Railway engines leaving St Pancras. |
| St Pancras Station was built in the 1860s and opened in 1868 for the Midland Railway with trains serving Yorkshire and the East Midlands. The station layout was designed by William Barlow, whilst the actual buildings design was by George Gilbert Scott. The frontage of the station is the Midland Grand Hotel, a magnificent building which is currently (2009) being rebuilt as a 5-Star hotel with apartments and penthouses with its interior features being preserved. |
| Towards the end of the Twentieth Century it was decided that St Pancras should be rebuilt and take over from Waterloo as the terminus for Eurostar trains to France and Belgium. This engineering feat was completed and the new station opened in 2007. |
| During the late 1880’s it was reported that an employee of the Midland Grand Hotel found herself pregnant and, unable to cope, threw herself down the staircase in the east wing. Her ghost is reputed to haunt the hotel. |
| St Pancras was built on the site of an old cemetery and several bodies had to be removed and reburied during the station's construction. This has given rise to several ghost rumours ! |
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