“Beyond the throb of the engines is the throbbing heart of all.”
John Betjemen
St. Pancras station in
London is quite the most amazing space, a vast vaulted ceiling headed by a gold clock, set high above a fleet of sleek Eurostar trains.
The station dodged the Luftwaffe’s bombs, but fell out of favour during the Sixties rush to sleek modernism. Somehow, it survived, a dirty and half derelict relic from another age.
Then came the Eurostar.
The Victorian soot was sand (...)
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