St Pancras railway station
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London St Pancras International (station codes: STP / SPX) is a major international rail interchange and shopping destination in London. It is the British capital's only international station, with Eurostar services connecting the city with destinations in mainland Europe. St Pancras is also served by domestic intercity trains from Gatwick and Luton airports, the East Midlands, South Yorkshire and Kent, stopping services from the East and South East of England, and the London Underground from all over the city, including Heathrow airport. It is in Camden, next to London King's Cross station and half a mile (800 metres) from London Euston station, termini for the two major railways to Scotland and Northern England.
St Pancras railway station旅遊指南
城市概覽
London St Pancras International is a large station with 13 mainline and international platforms, and two further platforms for stopping Thameslink route services. The National Rail station ranks among Britain's busiest, with some 36 million passenger entries and exits a year, in addition to 25 million at next-door King's Cross and 36 million at Euston, less than half a mile away. Every National Rail station in the UK has a three-letter station code similar to IATA codes used for airports. St Pancras uniquely has two station codes: STP for the domestic station, and SPX for the international area managed by Eurostar. Only the former can be used on the National Rail journey planner. Passports and luggage checks are required for international travel between St Pancras and destinations in mainland Europe. St Pancras houses a range of gift shops, small supermarkets, restaurants and pubs, including a small number of outlets in the international departures area, beyond passport control. The mainline station opened in 1868, built by the Midland Railway Company. During its construction, the St Pancras burial ground was shut to make way for the new line, with the St Pancras and Islington cemetery opened as its replacement in East Finchley. Novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, the Far from the Madding Crowd and Jude the Obscure author who was tasked with excavating the St Pancras Old Church graveyard in the 1860s, stacked graveyards at the base of an ash tree in the Old St Pancras Churchyard. Known as the Hardy Tree, it fell in 2022 after storms that year. Engineers William Henry Barlow and Rowland Mason Ordish led the station's design and layout. Its Victorian Gothic frontage in Euston Road is the work of George Gilbert Scott. Built as the Midland Grand Hotel and completed in 1876, it is today the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel London. Before St Pancras came along, King's Cross (now King's Cross St Pancras) was a station on the original Metropolitan Railway. The line opened between P
購物
The Arcade at St Pancras features a range of shops, including fashion, souvenirs and gifts. There are a series of high-street chains throughout the station including Boots, M&S (Marks and Spencer) and WHSmith. Also find FatFace clothing, Levi's jeans, Accessorize, Calvin Klein and MAC Cosmetics. There are several iconic British brands in the building, including Hamleys toy shop, Hatchards - one of the capital's oldest bookshop brands, since 1797 - and Fortnum & Mason high-end hampers, food and drink. A full list of outlets is on the St Pancras International website. For international passengers, a World Duty Free souvenir shop lies beyond passport control.
住宿
There is a cluster of budget hotels nearby in Bloomsbury, as well as some splurge hotels in this corner of Camden. Great Northern Hotel is the oldest of London's railway hotels, built by the namesake railway company for the King's Cross station and opened in 1854, while St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel is the rebirth of the former Midland Hotel that operated the space 1873–1935, inside the heritage-listed St. Pancras station building. The latter is definitely outside the budget of many travellers, but for architectural aficionados this is one hotel that should be stayed in at least once in a lifetime (note that the hotel rooms are in a side wing of the building constructed in the 2000s, the public areas are original but the original hotel rooms are now private apartments). The real budget option is YHA London St Pancras. If you don't need to sleep close to the station, there are hundreds of options elsewhere, easily in reach on foot or by public transportation.
城市概覽改寫自 Wikipedia，旅遊指南來自Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA)。照片來自 Wikimedia Commons.