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Old February 1st 09, 12:53 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default Euston Station

On 1 Feb, 13:31, Pyromancer
wrote:
Upon the miasma of midnight, a darkling spirit identified as
lonelytraveller gently
breathed:

On 1 Feb, 00:50, Mizter T wrote:
And a short Building Magazine news piece from 2007 on British Land
winning the redevelopment contract for Euston:
http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=3084568

I don't know why they bother wasting the money; they're planning to
build an ugly monstrosity that's nearly identical to the horrific
inhumanity that's there now.


Euston is pretty much a lost cause, I think. *The only real solution
would be to send a team of trainee architects untainted by the scourge
of "modernism" to examine St Pancras, and Glasgow Central, and
Manchester Piccadilly, and learn how a main line terminus station should
be designed, with beautiful and imposing buildings, a glass roof
supported by impressive-looking steelwork, and using traditional
materials like brick and stone. *And of course to include a replica of
the "arch".

But that'd cost money

Or they could just rebuild it as it used to look, but scaled and re-
oriented appropriately for the modern size and location of the
station.