St Pancras railway station

St Pancras National Rail
London St Pancras International
St Pancras Station from Euston road
View from Euston Road
St Pancras is located in Central London
St Pancras
St Pancras
Location of St Pancras in Central London
LocationSt Pancras
Local authorityLondon Borough of Camden
Managed byNetwork Rail (High Speed) for HS1 Ltd[1]
Eurostar[2]
Network Rail (Thameslink and Midland Main Line service platforms)
OwnerHS1 Ltd
Station code(s)STP (domestic), SPX (international), 70154005 (SNCF)
DfT categoryA (mainline platforms)
C1 (Thameslink platforms)
Number of platforms15
AccessibleYes[3]
Fare zone1
OSIKing's Cross St Pancras London Underground
London King's Cross National Rail
London Euston London Overground National Rail[4]
Cycle parkingYes – external (in car park)
Toilet facilitiesYes
National Rail annual entry and exit
2019–20Increase 36.040 million[5]
– interchange Increase 4.777 million[5]
2020–21Decrease 6.363 million[5]
– interchange Decrease 0.926 million[5]
2021–22Increase 18.995 million[5]
– interchange Increase 2.878 million[5]
2022–23Increase 33.296 million[5]
– interchange Increase 5.673 million[5]
2023–24Increase 35.960 million[5]
– interchange Decrease 2.566 million[5]
Railway companies
Original companyMidland Railway
Pre-groupingMidland Railway
Post-groupingLondon Midland & Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 October 1868[6]Opened as terminus for Midland
15 July 2006New domestic (Midland Main Line) platforms opened
6 November 2007Relaunched by HM The Queen/Elizabeth II. Renamed London St Pancras International
14 November 2007Eurostar services transferred from London Waterloo International
9 December 2007Low-level Thameslink platforms opened
13 December 2009Southeastern high-speed domestic services introduced
Other information
External links
Coordinates51°31′48″N 00°07′31″W / 51.53000°N 0.12528°W / 51.53000; -0.12528
London transport portal

St Pancras railway station (/ˈpæŋkrəs/), 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 provides East Midlands Railway services to Leicester, Corby, Derby, Sheffield and Nottingham on the Midland Main Line, Southeastern high-speed trains to Kent via Ebbsfleet International and Ashford International, and Thameslink cross-London services to Bedford, Cambridge, Peterborough, Brighton, Horsham and Gatwick Airport. It stands between the British Library, the Regent's Canal and London King's Cross railway station, with which it shares a London Underground station, King's Cross St Pancras.

The station was constructed by the Midland Railway (MR), to connect its extensive rail network, across the Midlands and North of England, to a dedicated line into London. After rail traffic problems following the 1862 International Exhibition, the MR decided to build a connection from Bedford to London with its own terminus. The station was designed by William Henry Barlow, with wrought iron pillars supporting a single-span roof. At 689 feet (210 m) by 240 feet (73.2 m) wide, and 100 feet (30.5 m) high, it was then the largest enclosed space in the world. Following the station's opening 1 October 1868, the MR built the Midland Grand Hotel on the station's façade. George Gilbert Scott won the competition to design it, with an ornate Gothic red-brick scheme. St Pancras has been widely praised for its architecture and is now a Grade I listed building.

St Pancras came under threat during the 20th century; damaged in both World War I and World War II by bombs, and then in the late 1960s by plans to demolish it entirely and divert services to King's Cross and Euston. A passionate campaign to save the station, led by the Victorian Society, Jane Hughes Fawcett, and Poet Laureate John Betjeman,[7] was successful, and St Pancras was awarded Grade I listed status just 10 days before demolition was due to commence.[8]

At the start of the 21st century, the complex underwent an £800 million refurbishment to become the terminal for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link/High-Speed 1/HS1 as part of an urban regeneration plan across East London, and opened by Queen Elizabeth II in November 2007. A security-sealed terminal area was constructed for Eurostar services to mainland Europe via High Speed 1 and the Channel Tunnel, with platforms for domestic trains to the north and south-east of England. The restored station has 15 platforms, a shopping centre, and a coach facility. London St Pancras International is owned by HS1 Ltd and managed by Network Rail (High Speed), a subsidiary of Network Rail.

  1. ^ "Station Facilities: London St Pancras Domestic (STP)". National Rail. Retrieved 9 September 2008.
  2. ^ "Ownership and Structure". Archived from the original on 8 May 2009. Retrieved 9 September 2008.
  3. ^ "London and South East" (PDF). National Rail. September 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2009.
  4. ^ "Out of Station Interchanges" (XLSX). Transport for London. 16 June 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Estimates of station usage". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
  6. ^ "Opening of the new Midland terminus in London". Leicester Journal. 9 October 1868. Retrieved 29 July 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ^ "50th anniversary issue: Saving a century". www.victoriansociety.org.uk.
  8. ^ "London's St Pancras station: Saved by a poet". 6 December 2011.

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