St. Pancras Station
Facing the Euston Road, this station frontage belies the actually quite small station behind. It used to be a busy station, serving the Grand Central Railway, but now is almost sleepy, since the line finishes at Leeds/Sheffield rather than Scotland.
A few years ago the Bedford/St. Pancras service (locally know for the old trains, then, as the bedpan line) was rejigged as Thameslink, electrified and removed from St. Pancras to pass through an old tunnel and join up with the Southern service to Brighton. The result is that this station now only serves the needs of the Midland Main Line Service.
The front aspect, actually and old station hotel
The Clock Tower. Very important in the days when built as 'Railway time' was be
beginning of time zones as we know them now.
Midland Mainline Started off with a collection of twenty years (about) old British Rail 125's. They seem to be steadily replacing them with these 170/1 Diesel Railcars
Approaching the 170
But the sod took off before I could get the internal pictures
But an old 125 came in two minutes later.
Sadly the crappy Casio camera memory failed on the other external pictures of her, so the internal ones only will have to do. This is First Class
125's are on the Kings Cross Station Page
Where the plebs squat - second class
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Keith J. (Boiler
Bill) Chesworth