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The splendour of Victorian travel
[...]it was a very efficient and practical station. First came the great train shed (Fig 9), finished in 1868, designed by the engineers William Henry Barlow and R. M. Ordish (Country Life, June 25, 2008). The commission for the hotel and the other masonry structures integrated with the train shed was the result of a typically fudged competition: the railway clearly wanted its building to be designed by a famous architect, although the estimated cost of Scott's design exceeded the brief (in the event, a whole floor had to be lopped off). [...]the building was saved by the late Lord Kennet, then Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing & Local Government, who upgraded its listing from III to I. Thwarted, British Rail then sulked for a quarter of a century, and neglected what was called St Pancras Chambers before abandoning it altogether.
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