| The first Irwell Press Great British Station was Kings Cross, published back in 1990 (now out of print) and this long awaited sequel, in similar non-conformist style, peers into just as many nooks, crannies, and mouldering corners as before. It is a highly individual ac-count which in other circumstances might well have been entitled 'Old Euston' - a phrase, paradoxically, finding ever greater usage, for Euston was the one great London station to be utterly destroyed, and the infamous demolition of the Great Arch, despite so much protest, made for a high water mark in a tide of destruction that threatened to sweep our towns and cities away before our very eyes. Kings Cross and St Pancras would have been next and it is an astonishing reversal that their disappearance, viewed as a ludicrous im-possibility today, was seen as more or less inevitable (indeed, the sooner the better) little more than 20 years ago. So Euston, sacrificed on the altar of 'comprehensive redevelopment' enabled in a way a halt to be called to the worst excesses. This book celebrates that eccentric old mausoleum, Euston - the story ending, be warned, before the monstrous rebuilding of the 1960s. Go there now, run the gauntlet of vicious, swiping wind blasts across its inhuman frontage, and wonder at what has gone. Contents:
- 1. ANCIENT GREECE TO PREMIER LINE
- 2. ROUND AND ABOUT
- 3. WAR AND PEACE
- 4. TRAINS TO REMEMBER
- 5. GLOOM AND GLORY: DEMISE
- 6. CAMDEN BANK AND SHED
Continent: Europe
Country: UK
Area: UK London |
