St Pancras Station in central London is hoping to reach agreement to be twinned with Grand Central Station in New York. St Pancras has been undergoing a massive redevelopment in the run up to taking over this November from Waterloo Station as the London Terminus for the Eurostar and Channel Tunnel Rail Link, and wants to learn from Grand Central how they made the whole station into a financial success.
It seems like they’ve been building down there forever and the project is costing over £800million. They’re expecting more than 45million people a year to be using the new terminal and are trying to make it more than just a train station. St Pancras originally opened in 1868 and the trainshed roof was the world’s largest single span structure up to that point.
On the Euston Road side is the red bricked Victorian gothic building that used to be the Midland Grand Hotel, but that closed for good in 1935 and the building was used as offices as well as for scenes in Batman Begins and a Spice Girls video. Its now being refurbished as a part of a new hotel and as apartments.
The new station will have an area of regular high street shops as well a section called the Arcade with independent and boutique shops, restaurants, cafes, a 90m champagne bar (Europe’s longest) and a daily farmer’s market selling fresh fruit and vegetables, meat, fish as well as arts and crafts.
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