E27002 wrote:
On Oct 29, 6:34 pm, Miles Bader wrote:
Theo Markettos writes:
A few weeks ago the best food King's Cross could offer was a sandwich. Not
a hot meal in sight. There's now a West Cornwall Pasty Company stand (back
near where it used to be, on the extended concourse between plat 7 and 8)
but I think that's it as far as hot food goes.
Wait, isn't KC ... world famous and all that... the departure point for
the wilds of Scotland ... etc?

Which brings to mind the last movie remake of "The Thritynine Steps".
In which, IIRC, the train for Scotland departs from St Pancras instead
of the more accurate Kings Cross.

The Thirty Nine Steps is set in the period immediately before the first
world war.

At that time, competing trains departed for Scotland from Kings Cross
(for the Great Northern Railway/North Eastern Railway/North British
Railway services, primarily to Edinburgh and the East Coast via Berwick)
from St Pancras (for Midland Railway services via Carlisle) and from
Euston (for London & North Western Railway services via Carlisle).

Much of the action of the original novel takes place in the wilds of
Galloway in south-west Scotland, served by the Glasgow and South Western
Railway. This railway had a strong relationship with the Midland
Railway, thus someone heading to Galloway _would_ have left London from
St Pancras.

In any film that was true to the book, the Forth Bridge wouldn't appear
at all, because this is considerably to the north and east of Galloway,
just west of Edinburgh on the North British Railway.
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