Global InformationSt Pancras railway station information
St Pancras  | |
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| London St Pancras International | |
 View from Euston Road | |
  St Pancras Location of St Pancras in Central London | |
| Location | St Pancras |
| Local authority | London Borough of Camden |
| Managed by | Network Rail (High Speed) for HS1 Ltd[1] Eurostar[2] Network Rail (Thameslink and Midland Main Line service platforms) |
| Owner | HS1 Ltd |
| Station code | STP, SPX, QQS (IATA) |
| DfT category | A (mainline platforms) C1 (Thameslink platforms) |
| Number of platforms | 15 |
| Accessible | Yes[3] |
| Fare zone | 1 |
| OSI | King's Cross St Pancras  London King's Cross London Euston  [4] |
| Cycle parking | Yes – external (in car park) |
| Toilet facilities | Yes |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2018–19 |  35.984 million[5] |
| – interchange | 4.518 million[5] |
| 2019–20 | 36.040 million[5] |
| – interchange | 4.777 million[5] |
| 2020–21 |  6.363 million[5] |
| – interchange | 0.926 million[5] |
| 2021–22 | 18.995 million[5] |
| – interchange | 2.878 million[5] |
| 2022–23 | 33.296 million[5] |
| – interchange | 5.673 million[5] |
| Railway companies | |
| Original company | Midland Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Midland Railway |
| Post-grouping | London Midland & Scottish Railway |
| Key dates | |
| 1 October 1868[6] | Opened as terminus for Midland |
| 15 July 2006 | New domestic (Midland Main Line) platforms opened |
| 6 November 2007 | Relaunched by HM The Queen/Elizabeth II. Renamed London St Pancras International |
| 14 November 2007 | Eurostar services transferred from London Waterloo International |
| 9 December 2007 | Low-level Thameslink platforms opened |
| 13 December 2009 | Southeastern high-speed domestic services introduced |
| Other information | |
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| Coordinates | 51°31′48″N 00°07′31″W / 51.53000°N 0.12528°W |
 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 the then 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.
- ^ "Station Facilities: London St Pancras Domestic (STP)". National Rail. Retrieved 9 September 2008.
- ^ "Ownership and Structure". Archived from the original on 8 May 2009. Retrieved 9 September 2008.
- ^ "London and South East" (PDF). National Rail. September 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2009.
- ^ "Out of Station Interchanges" (XLSX). Transport for London. 16 June 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Opening of the new Midland terminus in London". Leicester Journal. 9 October 1868. Retrieved 29 July 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/publications/our-membership-magazine-the-victorian/50th-anniversary-issue-saving-a-century
- ^ https://www.ontheluce.com/london-st-pancras-station/#:~:text=But%20Poet%20Laureate%20John%20Betjeman,move%20in%2010%20days%20later.