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The London station group is a group of 18 railway stations served by the National Rail network in central London, England. The group contains all 14 terminal stations in central London, either serving
The first London terminal station, London Bridge, in 1836
The distinctive Gothic architecture of St Pancras railway station survived demolition, unlike neighbouring Euston.
Broad Street station was one of the few in the London station group to be closed and demolished.
The building of railway lines into London took up a substantial amount of land, particularly south of the Thames.
St Pancras railway station
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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 station group
…of modernisation works to the station, while the area around Kings Cross became run-down. An important exception was the Victorian Gothic structure of St Pancras, which became a Grade I listed building in 1967 after being threatened with demolition. Similarly, King's Cross and Paddington became Grade I listed…
View from Euston Road
The train shed under construction in 1868
The station was damaged by a bomb in May 1941 during the Blitz.
An express to Leicester awaiting departure in 1957