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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.
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.
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 ...
King's Cross St Pancras (also known as King's Cross & St Pancras International) is a London Underground station on Euston Road in the Borough of Camden, Central London.It serves King's Cross and St Pancras main line stations in fare zone 1, and is an interchange between six lines: Circle, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan, Northern, Piccadilly and Victoria.
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 ...
The extension to Aldersgate Street and Moorgate Street (now Barbican and Moorgate) opened on 23 December 1865, [12] and all four lines were open on 1 March 1866. [13] The parallel tracks from King's Cross to Farringdon, first used by a GNR freight train on 27 January 1868, [14] entered a second Clerkenwell tunnel before dropping at a gradient of 1 in 100, passing under the Ray Street Gridiron ...
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 ...
The statue of John Betjeman at St Pancras railway station, London is a depiction in bronze by the sculptor Martin Jennings.The statue was designed and cast in 2007 and was unveiled on 12 November 2007 by Betjeman's daughter, Candida Lycett Green and the then Poet Laureate Andrew Motion to commemorate Betjeman and mark the opening of St Pancras International as the London terminus of the ...