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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]
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.
Euston and Euston Square underground stations need to be urgently upgraded or will "both cease to function as reliable stations in peak hours" due to overcrowding, according to a leaked report ...
It started at Euston Station in London, went north-west to Rugby, where it turned west to Coventry and on to Birmingham. It terminated at Curzon Street Station, which it shared with the Grand Junction Railway (GJR), whose adjacent platforms gave an interchange with full connectivity (with through carriages) between Liverpool, Manchester and London.
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 ...
The Euston Arch in the 1890s. The Euston Arch, built in 1837 (and demolished in 1962), was the original entrance to Euston station, facing onto Drummond Street, London.The arch was demolished when the station was rebuilt in the 1960s, but much of the original stone was later located—principally used as fill in the Prescott Channel—and proposals have been formulated to reconstruct it as ...
A controversial large advertising screen above the concourse at Euston railway station will be used to display train information, Network Rail said. The screen stopped being used to show adverts ...