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Hail the new golden age of the train

Discussion in 'On Track.' started by Pewsey Beaste, Mar 20, 2007.

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    Pewsey Beaste Part of the furniture

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    Once the pride of the Victorian railway era, St Pancras is now about to put the glamour back into rail travel, says our architecture critic, Stephen Bayley.

    This is the Age of the Train, Version 2.0. Or soon will be. From 14 November, the Eurostar begins its service from St Pancras, moving to a radically restated version of WH Barlow's engine shed in north London and out of Nick Grimshaw's Waterloo terminus in the south, the latter surely the most elaborate, finest and most successful temporary building of all time?

    For the full (long and interesting) article, visit http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/s ... 47,00.html
     
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