Pyromancer wrote:


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".

I don't know. Despite its faults, Euston does at least get one thing
right: it keeps the trains firmly out of sight of the concourse. For
many people, it's bad enough having to make a long journey by train,
without having to be reminded of how depressing trains can be by
actually having to look at them while you wait.

That's one thing that St Pancras only managed to get right with the
latest redevelopment, giving us that new basement-level shopping mall
and concourse, tucked nicely away from the trains. (After all, unlike
stations, shopping malls are places that most people actually enjoy
visiting spending time in.) And before it was redeveloped, St Pancras
was one of the bleakest, gloomiest, most depressing stations in London.