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Euston railway station (/ ˈ j uː s t ən / YOO-stən; or London Euston) is a major central London railway terminus managed by Network Rail in the London Borough of Camden.It is the southern terminus of the West Coast Main Line, the UK's busiest inter-city railway.
An underground station to serve Euston station was first proposed by the Hampstead, St Pancras & Charing Cross Railway in 1891. [7] [n 1] The company planned a route to run from Heath Street in Hampstead to Strand in Charing Cross with a branch diverging from the main route to run under Drummond Street to serve Euston, St Pancras and King's Cross stations. [9]
Map of Zone 1 Underground stations, pre 2021. London is split into six approximately concentric zones. Zone 1 covers the West End, the Holborn district, Kensington, Paddington and the City of London, as well as Old Street, Angel, Pimlico, Tower Gateway, Aldgate East, Euston, Vauxhall, Elephant & Castle, Borough, London Bridge, Earl's Court, Marylebone, Edgware Road, Lambeth North and Waterloo.
Euston Square is a London Underground station at the corner of Euston Road and Gower Street, just north of University College London – its main (south) entrance faces the tower of University College Hospital. The multi-interchange Euston station is beyond Euston Square Gardens, which is one street east.
Euston station became London’s first inter-city railway station when it opened on 20 July 1837 on land adjacent to the north side of Euston Square. [3] The London and Birmingham Railway company was denied the legal right to press further into the city and the line halted at the edge of the Southampton Estate, two blocks north of Euston Square.
IN FOCUS: Dubbed in one memorable tweet as ‘a Petri dish of chaos’, London’s Euston station has become a living metaphor for Britain’s crumbling infrastructure – a dire hub of delays ...
Euston and Euston Square stations were meant to be upgraded and expanded when HS2 rebuilt the mainline station for high-speed services. Work on HS2 Euston was paused by the then Conservative ...
The DfT document also stated that a planned tunnel between Euston and Euston Square Tube station had been axed. HS2 work at Euston was paused in February because costs had ballooned to £4.8 ...
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