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London’s 598 railways stations have made the capital what it is

31 October 2020

9:00 AM

31 October 2020

9:00 AM

Cathedrals of Steam: How London’s Great Stations Were Built — And How They Transformed the City Christian Wolmar

Atlantic, pp.352, 25

I began this book waiting for a diesel train to Derby, under the windy, boxy, flat-roofed bit which one of Sir Norman Foster’s team added to the back end of St Pancras station. At around 7 p.m. on a weekday only a dozen or so people were travelling. In the arcade below — built by the proud Midland Railway, as Christian Wolmar reminds us, to the dimensions of the Burton beer barrels the space was designed to store — shops are being boarded up.

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