Trains to the Motorcycle Show in Birmingham go from here! It's important to know that! LOL
It's a very busy station, and is going to get even busier, with the addition of the HS2 High-speed rail link being built. The station opened in 1837, and it was controversially rebuilt in the mid-1960s when the Arch and the Great Hall were demolished to accommodate the electrified West Coast Main Line, and the revamped station still attracts criticism over its architecture.
It is now being re-modelled again.
The original Euston Road underground station was a typical Leslie Green one, covered in oxblood red tiles. During the 60s remodelling, a new entrance to the underground was included with access straight from the mainline station concourse. Somehow, the Leslie Green building was never demolished.
When I walked around the site for the new HS2 terminus today, I found it still standing. Everything around it has been demolished and cleared, and the one building stands surrounded by fencing. I had to poke my camera through a tiny gap in the fence to get this rather poor picture.
But I hope this means that a use will be found for it, and it will be incorporated into the new station.
The building works on the old station are all-pervasive, and it was difficult getting any decent photographs at all. However, as it's a station I use from time to time, I will try and replace the pictures as and when
The entrance to the main station is marked by these twin buildings. The walls are engraved with the names of all the places you can get to from Euston by train.
Euston war memorial was erected in 1921 to honour the railwaymen who lost their lives in the First World War. Additional panels were later added to commemorate the men and women of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway who died in the Second World War.
No comments:
Post a Comment