{"id":9381,"date":"2012-08-17T14:15:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T13:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=9381"},"modified":"2022-09-05T17:40:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T16:40:51","slug":"st-pancras-railway-station-a-decade-ago-graffiti-smoke-and-wooden-panelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/st-pancras-railway-station-a-decade-ago-graffiti-smoke-and-wooden-panelling\/","title":{"rendered":"St Pancras railway station in 2001: graffiti, smoke and wooden panelling"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s now been renovated, refurbished, given a big posh polish and pushed upmarket, but back in 2001, St Pancras railway station was a different place.<\/p>\n

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When I visited in May 2001, the glorious original wood panelled booking office was still in use. Shame\u00a0about the modern BR signage though.<\/p>\n

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Carved into the exterior wall of the station was this seventy year old graffiti, presumably inscribed by a visiting\u00a0London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS&R<\/a>) employee who was there in 1932, 1933, 1934 and 1935. I’m guessing the ‘SM’ part could mean signalman.<\/p>\n

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Looking towards Euston Road.<\/p>\n

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A diesel train lets off a thick plume of smoke before departing for the north.<\/p>\n

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The station remains a marvel of Victorian Gothic architecture.<\/p>\n

Read more about St Pancras: St Pancras railway station – photos, features and panoramas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s now been renovated, refurbished, given a big posh polish and pushed upmarket, but back in 2001, St Pancras railway station was a different place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,193,90],"tags":[10,1200,388],"class_list":["post-9381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-places","category-railways","tag-london","tag-railways","tag-st-pancras"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/st-pancras-station-2001-05.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-2rj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9381"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20772,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381\/revisions\/20772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}