On Mar 16, 12:18 pm, "Paul Scott"
wrote:
The new underground station at St Pancras for Thameslink services is usually
referred to as 'Midland Road' in the various documentation available on the
web.

However - does it actually need a separate name when it comes into use?


Probably does need a single name when it comes into public use - but
the two names might have been in legal use at least for now because
there are 2 projects there - one of which has been overtaken by the
other.


While the whole of TL2000 continues to be stalled, the new St Pancras
station for that stand alone project pre-dates by a very long margin
anything to do with rebuilding the main Stancras station for CTRL and
European services.

I am fairly certain that before CTRL came along, there was no plan to
rebuild the main station undercroft [or if there was, it was not for
rail passenger facilities] and SP Midland Road was (in the main) to be
a seperate station - possibly with some kind of direct subway access -
rather like KX Thameslink is also a seperate entity but connected by
passages if one counts going via the tube lines.

Then along came CTRL embracing MML and CTRL-DS as well as Eurostar and
the complete rebuild added into the TL2000 idea of the new low level
Thameslink station. Almost certainly this has a different planning
permission and/or other legal or documented name. Two projects with
two names than have combined.

Thats only my suggestion why there are 2 names to date, and does not
answer the valid point about what the names will be or could be when
the whole complex is open.

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Nick