St Pancras International Railway Station, London. Free Entry. Open Daily.
Details
Accessibility:
There are disability toilets in several places at St Pancras - the Arcade area, opposite Eurostar departures, and the Circle areas, beside the cash dispensers. Further toilets can be found in the international departures lounge. There is a car park for the station (http://stpancras.com/maps/parking), which includes twelve disability spaces.
Customer Service Assistants are on hand throughout the station to aid visitors - this is best booked in advance. Further details regarding accessibility can be found on the station’s website http://hs1.directenquiries.com/information/London%20St%20Pancras%20International/731089/summary/information.aspx.
St Pancras International railway station is set in one of the greatest Victorian buildings in London. It is a key destination for the Eurostar to mainland Europe and high-speed rail in the UK, as well as a retail and hospitality destination.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Pancras_railway_station
"St Pancras railway station (/ˈpæŋkrəs/), officially known since 2007 as London St Pancras International, is a major central London railway terminus on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden. It is the terminus for Eurostar services from Belgium, France and the Netherlands to London. It provides East Midlands Railway services to Leicester, Corby, Derby, Sheffield and Nottingham on the Midland Main Line, Southeastern high-speed trains to Kent via Ebbsfleet International and Ashford International, and Thameslink cross-London services to Bedford, Cambridge, Peterborough, Brighton, Horsham and Gatwick Airport. It stands between the British Library, the Regent's Canal and London King's Cross railway station, with which it shares a London Underground station, King's Cross St Pancras.
The station was constructed by the Midland Railway (MR), to connect its extensive rail network, across the Midlands and North of England, to a dedicated line into London. After rail traffic problems following the 1862 International Exhibition, the MR decided to build a connection from Bedford to London with its own terminus. The station was designed by William Henry Barlow, with wrought iron pillars supporting a single-span roof. At 689 feet (210 m) by 240 feet (73.2 m) wide, and 100 feet (30.5 m) high, it was then the largest enclosed space in the world. Following the station's opening 1 October 1868, the MR built the Midland Grand Hotel on the station's façade. George Gilbert Scott won the competition to design it, with an ornate Gothic red-brick scheme. St Pancras has been widely praised for its architecture and is now a Grade I listed building."
Further Information:
Address:
St Pancras International Station, Euston Road, London, N1C 4QP
Email:
General Information info@highspeed1.co.uk + https://stpancras-highspeed.com/contact/
Phone:
0207 843 7688
Website:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg5d6l5lz4jo
Opening Hours:
Open daily.
Directions:
St Pancras International is located on Pancras Road (A5202) just off the A501 Euston Road/Pentonville Road.
OS TQ300830
Transport:
Tube and bus services operate in and around the station.
Amenities:
The station complex has many outlets to buy food and drink, including burgers, sushi and an M&S foodhall – for a full list click here: http://stpancras.com/eat-and-drink.
+ Nearby, Platform 9¾ at King's Cross Station https://www.kingscross.co.uk/harry-potters-platform-9-34
King’s Cross
Euston Rd.
London N1C 4AP
"There are several works of art on public display at St Pancras. A 9-metre (29.5 ft) high 20-tonne (19.7-long-ton; 22.0-short-ton) bronze statue titled The Meeting Place stands at the south end of the upper level beneath the station clock. It was designed by the British artist Paul Day to evoke the romance of travel through the depiction of a couple locked in an amorous embrace.[116] Controversy was caused by Day's 2008 addition of a bronze relief frieze around the plinth,[117] depicting a commuter falling into the path of an Underground train driven by the Grim Reaper. Day revised the frieze before the final version was installed.[118]
On the upper level, above the Arcade concourse, stands a bronze statue of John Betjeman, depicted gazing in apparent wonder at the Barlow roof. A work of the British sculptor Martin Jennings, the statue commemorates Betjeman's part in a successful campaign to save the station from demolition in the 1960s.[44][119] The 2-metre (6 ft 7 in)-high statue stands on a flat disc of Cumbrian slate inscribed with lines from Betjeman's poem Cornish Cliffs: There are a number of upright pianos in the main St Pancras concourse that are available for anyone to play. In 2016, Elton John gave an impromptu performance here on a piano he subsequently donated to the station as a gift.[121]"Travel Information
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NB London ULTRA-LOW EMISSION ZONE
This started on 8 April 2019 in the Central London Congestion Charge Zone, and will extend to the whole of the London area within the
M25 Motorway from 25 October 2021.
For more details please see:
https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/check-your-vehicle-35896
Vehicles registered with a 'disabled' or 'disabled passenger vehicles' tax class will benefit from a grace period after the ULEZ starts until 26 October 2025 as long as their vehicle doesn't change tax class, and this also applies to a 'disabled' vehicle registered outside the UK.
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