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St Pancras railway station (/ ˈ p æ ŋ k r ə s /), 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.
1851 map showing Agar Town (top left), Somers Town and Pentonville. Illustration from 1854, showing Paradise Row in Agar Town. Agar Town (also known as Ague Town, Hagar Town, Agar-Town and Agar-town) was a small, historically poor neighbourhood of St Pancras in central London. Most of the area was demolished making way for St Pancras railway ...
It lies in St Pancras and King's Cross: stretching over a kilometre from St Pancras railway station in the south, over the Regent's Canal, and to Agar Grove in the north. Camley Street is the location of Camley Street Natural Park, a local nature reserve. Adjacent to the natural park is St Pancras Basin, home to the St Pancras Cruising Club.
The platforms are proposed to be under Somers Town: from just south of the Eversholt Street and Drummond Crescent junction in the west, to just north of the British Library at Ossulston Street in the east. Entrances to the station are proposed to be the existing entrance to Euston Underground station, and new entrances at the corner of ...
London St Pancras: St Pancras, London: 1868 15 31.724 High Speed 1 diverges north of St Pancras Kentish Town: Kentish Town, London 1868 4 2.844 Branch from to Gospel Oak to Barking line north of station West Hampstead Thameslink: West Hampstead, London 1871 4 3.710 Cricklewood: Cricklewood, London 1868 4 1.057 Dudding Hill Line diverges north ...
When St Luke's Church, near King's Cross, was demolished to make way for the construction of the Midland Railway's St Pancras station and its Midland Grand Hotel, the estimated 12,000 inhabitants of Somers Town at that time were deprived of that place of worship, as the church building was re-erected in Kentish Town, though St Mary's remained and St Matthew's Oakley Square was added in 1856. [8]
From 9 December 2007, Thameslink services began to call at the new platforms at St Pancras. [57] The ticket office on Pentonville Road and the foot tunnel linking it with King's Cross St Pancras tube station were retained and made available as an additional access point for tube passengers, albeit only between 07:00 and 20:00 on weekdays. [58]
King's Cross St Pancras tube station, a London Underground station attached to the railway station; Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras, a local government area (1900-1965) St Pancras, Soper Lane, a church in the City of London; St Pancras, a church in the village of West Bagborough, Somerset; Church of St. Agnes and St. Pancras, Toxteth Park, a ...