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Information on London St Pancras International Station



The Midland Railway had its headquarters at Derby and its initial access to London was via Bedford to Hitchin and then over the Great Northern metals into King’s Cross. Since the two railways were rivals in many areas it is hardly surprising that these arrangements were unsatisfactory, leading the Midland to build a separate route to London and create there, one of the most striking of stations. The Midland Railway went out of its way to put Euston and King’s Cross stations in the shade.

St Pancras station includes two of the most celebrated structures to be built in Britain during the Victorian era, first came the train shed with iron work by the Butterley Company from Derbyshire which opened in1868 and raised above street level to avoid the gradients suffered by its neighbours, Euston and King’s Cross stations.

William Henry Barlow was the engineer who designed the single span roof which was 240ft wide and 100 ft high, with decorated side walls and a paneled booking office on the west side. The frontage of the station is formed by the Victorian gothic architecture of Gilbert Scott, namely the Midland Grand Hotel built in 1873. Gilbert Scott was the winner of a design competition set by the MR.

The Midland Grand Hotel faces Euston Road with the main Barlow train shed elevated 20ft (6m) above street level, the area below forming the station undercroft ( ground level (street level) area which is relatively open to the sides but covered by the building above). On the west side is Midland Road, and across the other side of the road stands the new British Library. On the east side is Pancras Road, with King’s Cross station on the far side of the road. To the north is King’s Cross Central, a multi billion pound mixed use property development,  formerly known as Railway Lands with a complex of intersecting railway lines crossed by several roads and the Regent’s Canal.

The Midland was forced to merge with the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS), as part of the Railways Act of 1921, with the LMS adopting the LNWR’s Euston station as its principle London Terminus, this in turned forced the closure of the Midland Grand Hotel in 1935, 62 years after it had first opened to customers on the 5 May 1873. In 1948 British Railways was formed, previous services that were run under the LMS banner continued with London area services to North Woolwich, St Albans and Bedford and long distance trains serving Glasgow, Leeds, Nottingham, Sheffield and Manchester, with famous trains including :
  • The Palatine to Manchester.
  • The Thames-Clyde Express to Glasgow.
  • The Master Cutler to Sheffield.
With the electrification of the West Coast Main Line in the 1960s services were withdrawn from St Pancras and transferred and or consolidated with services out of Euston station, with St Pancras becoming redundant attempts were made to close the station and demolish the hotel which by then was known as St Pancras Chambers. Poet Laureate John Betjeman led a campaign to keep the station open.
1988 saw the reopening of the Snow Hill Tunnel and the birth of Thameslink trains from Bedford running through the City of London and onto Gatwick Airport and Brighton via Blackfriars and London Bridge stations.

More good news was to follow in 1996 as London and Continental Railways (LCR) was selected by the UK government to undertake the reconstruction of St Pancras and the construction of the new Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL), it would also take over the British share of the Eurostar operation.
LCR was created when British Rail was privatised, at the same time it took over the ownership of St Pancras.



On Tuesday 6 November 2007 St Pancras station was officially reopened as St Pancras International by HM the Queen, accompanied by HRH The Duke Of Edinburgh. The original station train shed was extended northwards with a new flat roof shed in order to accommodate the unusually long Eurostar trains, existing domestic services to the midlands and new domestic services on the new high speed rail link.  Below the main station new low level platforms were put in for a new Thameslink station which opened 9 December, at the same time King’s Cross Thameslink station closed.


Information on train services from London St Pancras International Station
  • Platforms 1-4 East Midlands Trains -  Mainline services to Leicester Nottingham, Derby, Lincoln, Sheffield, Corby, Leicester
  • Platforms 5-10 Eurostar – International service to Paris and Brussels
  • Platforms 11-13 Southeastern – High Speed to Kent Coast
  • Platforms A&B First Capital Connect – “Thameslink” services to Bedford, Luton, St Albans, Blackfriars, London Bridge, Sutton, Bromley South, Sevenoaks, East Croydon, Gatwick Airport & Brighton.

Domestic services operated by East Midlands Trains - with routes to the East Midlands and Yorkshire regions.
Towns and Cities served include:
  • Luton, Bedford, Wellingborough, Kettering, Market Harborough, Leicester, Loughborough, Nottingham, Derby, Chesterfield and Sheffield.
Occasional trains run to:
  • Newark, Lincoln, Doncaster, Wakefield, Leeds, York and Scarborough.
  • 4 tph to Leicester station (3 fast, 1 stopping)]
    • ½ hourly to Derby (with hourly continuations to Sheffield)
  • 1 tph to Corby (calling intermediate stations) and peak times to/from Melton Mowbray calling at Oakham.
New Thameslink platforms operated by First Capital Connect (Thameslink route)
Destinations include:
  • Bedford, Luton and St Albans (Northbound)
  • Wimbledon, East Croydon and Brighton (Southbound)
Direct services to:
  • London Gatwick and London Luton Airports.
High Speed 1 and Kent Coast operated by Southeastern Trains destinations include:
  • St Pancras to Ebbsfleet (extending to Ashford International during peak times – on High Speed 1.
High Speed Services to:
  •  Strood, Chatham, Gravesend, Margate, Ramsgate, Dover Priory, Folkestone Central, Ahford, Ebbsfleet and other Kent destinations.
International Services using Eurostar via (High Speed 1)
  • 17 pairs of trains to and from Paris Gare du Nord every day,
  • 10 pairs of trains to and from Bruxelles-Midi/Brussel-Zuid
  • 1 train to and from Marne-la-Vallee from Disneyland Paris
    • Additional services run to Paris on Fridays and Sundays
    • Reduced service to Brussels on weekends
    • Additional weekend leisure oriented trains also run to the French Alps during the skiing season, and run onto Avignon in the summer.


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