Great Britain Railway Stations
London ST Pancras International
London St Pancras International is the terminal station for trains coming from the East Midlands and always has been since the station opened. Now there are new destinations that go from St Pancras including High speed international Eurostar services to Paris, Disney, Brussels, South of France including (Lyon, Avignon TGV, Aix En Provence and Marseille) and Winter service to Bourg St Maurice along with the introduction of an all round service to Amsterdam in late 2016. St Pancras is also home to Southeastern's high speed services to Margate, Folkstone and Dover.
The station was due to be demolished some years after the Second World War in the 1960s but was greatfully saved by poet Sir John Betjeman and is now listed as a Grade 1 listed Buiding. In 2001 it underwent an £800 million renovation project which saw a new section of the CTRL now HS1 and a new home for Eurostar with a new terminal and departure lounge along with the new southeastern high speed network introduced to serve the 2012 Olympic town of Stratford City. |
London Kings Cross
King's Cross railway station is a major London railway terminus which opened in 1852 on the northern edge of central London. King's Cross is the southern terminus of the East Coast Main Line, providing high speed inter-city services to Yorkshire, the North East and Scotland. Virgin Trains East Coast is the main inter-city operator with destinations including Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh. Other inter-city operators serving the station include Hull Trains and Grand Central.
King's Cross is also a terminus for Great Northern which provides commuter services to North London, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Norfolk. Immediately to the west across Pancras Road is St Pancras International, the London terminus of Eurostar services to continental Europe. The two stations share King's Cross St. Pancras tube station on the London Underground network and taken together form one of Britain's biggest transport hubs. The station is 820 yards (750 m) north-east of Euston, the southern terminus for the West Coast Main Line. Quoted from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_King%27s_Cross_railway_station With thanks to Wikipedia |
London Euston
Euston railway station or London Euston is a central London railway terminus and one of 19 stations managed by Network Rail. It is the sixth busiest railway station in the UK.
Euston is the southern terminus of the West Coast Main Line, the busiest intercity passenger route in Britain and the main gateway from London to the West Midlands, the North West, North Wales and parts of Scotland. Virgin Trains provides high-speed intercity services to these regions. Its most important long-distance destinations are Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Glasgow. Euston is also the London terminus for London Midland trains providing local commuter and regional services via the WCML from London to Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire as well as long-distance services to the West Midlands county, Staffordshire and Cheshire. Euston is also the terminus for suburban services on the Watford DC Lineoperated by London Overground. Quoted from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euston_railway_station With thanks to Wikipedia |