St Pancras railway station

St Pancras International stands as a triumph of Victorian engineering and a survivor of twentieth-century indifference. You are approaching a station that was almost lost entirely in the nineteen sixties when authorities proposed its demolition, only for it to be saved by a passionate public campaign. The station was built to provide the Midland Railway with a direct route into London, and its iconic, towering facade was designed to assert the company's dominance over its competitors. What you see is a structure that reflects the grand, often ruthless ambitions of the age of steam.