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Having been to London yesterday, I must say that St Pancras station is now a truly remarkable building, If I hadnt had a variety of places to go and people to meet, I could happily have wandered and gazed for hours. A true cathedral of the railways.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Jan 7th, 2009 at 04:18:16 PM EST
It is nice now. Shows what can be done.

Liverpool St is a good-sh example of what can work and also how sometimes things get buggered up. It used to be a real dump, then they did it up and it looks great, then they had to add commercial units to pay for it and that ruied all the views.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Jan 7th, 2009 at 04:21:20 PM EST
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it became that way thanks to a secret law that gives it extra-territorial diplomatic status as an extension of the EU ;)

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Jan 7th, 2009 at 05:34:00 PM EST
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The sooner we can extend that the better.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Jan 7th, 2009 at 05:42:00 PM EST
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One of Douglas Adams' more inspired ideas in the

Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

is that the Norse gods' world exists in parallel with our own - and that the undercroft of the unrestored St Pancras railway station was Valhalla.

I don't know what Thor would make of it now....

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Wed Jan 7th, 2009 at 08:33:36 PM EST
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Well there was a rather hairy large Norse looking bloke in one of the coffee shops, but maybe he was just getting a drink before catching the steam train from the plaatform 9 3/4 at the station next door.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Jan 7th, 2009 at 08:55:07 PM EST
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