Inside St Pancras Station
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- See the parts of St Pancras Station not accessible to the public, as Londonist's Matt Brown and Mike Paterson from London Historians get an exclusive tour of the iconic building, including a trip to the roof, with Sam Lane, who lives in the station building!
I can't believe they were going to demolish St Pancras and replace it with a modern concrete building like they did with Euston and London Bridge. That would've been an architectural war crime.
Would've been a total disaster. Protesters would've turned up in the thousands.
Been plenty of architectural war crimes already in London with most of the victorian station roofs gone . . forever.
London bridge cannot be lumped in with euston 😂
@Micah the Nerd Saxophonist EXACTLY!!! As Vincent Scully put it mildly, "One entered the city like a god. One scuttles in now like a rat." I love my city but I HATE our station. We need to take a lesson from St. Pancras. Good thing they're remodeling the post office across the street to serve as part of Penn Station.
If they did that I would spray paint all the trains to make them look better and sabotage all of them
Wow, it's great to see someone so passionate about something they love!
she lives IN a train station HOLY CRAP ITS MY DREAM HOME
+Traindude1234 Shields yea
Traindude1234 Shields SAME
That building above the station used to be a hotel!
Apparently the place costs £6 million.
David Frankal I'll take two!
David Frankal wow
Seven for me
Every sentence: *certain view* is so fabulous
I wasn't aware you could buy an apartment in *****. That's something else for the "When I Win The Lottery" bucket list.
Nickie O'Hara the lottery is fake
LDN BOY Explain how.
Nickie O'Hara ii
One apt was on sale in 2012 for £500k
@@archstanton6102 Now in 2019 it looks like you might need 2 million pounds to buy something there. I could not even afford the property tax.
What a place to live in, fabulous!
Bet it's ludicrously expensive
Hamish Ashcroft plays minecraft cheap for London and the place it is.
I’ve played that piano in the clock tower! A bit of jazz during a breakfast event to thank all the companies involved in the refurb.
She must be loaded. It's a hard life.
She's not in charge of our economic system. If she earned her money, pays her taxes, supports a fairer country and is a decent person then I wish her nothing but enjoyment from her magnificent home.
March to September 1969, I was working in an office of BritRail International on the fourth floor of St Pancras. happy days !.
Hey Londonist Ltd. Love your videos especially the railroad themed episodes (bit of a railroad nut here in NZ). Is there a chance you could please do some more inside looks at railway stations? Would really value one on Waterloo Station as I'm modelling that for an N Gauge layout. Keep them coming and "Mind the gap" :)
The eurostar ride is fun, and i have been on the Eurostar from St. Pancras
Well done Sam - excellent presentation - and I had no idea whatsoever that the Olympic Rings had been converted into public benches - wonderful !
You can live in St. Pancreas Station? I never knew. Well I learnt something new and great video.
Same here and I passed it so many times I thought it was a hotel or something not apartments
Amazing. My favourite station. So glad it was saved. Pure class.
Wow! I learned something new again. Thanks!
Fabulous, loved it.
Brilliant video, Geoff. St Pancras is my favourite station because of its beautiful Victorian architecture, I even made a short film about it! Keep up the amazing work, it's great finding out all these new facts!
Even though your original comment is over 2 years old now, could you post a link to your
...to your film. I had a look on your channel but couldn't find it amoungst your other videos. I would be very interested to watch it.
Fascinating!
Must make the morning commute easier as you just have to walk down the stairs to the station to get a train. I'm guessing the tube station isn't too far away either.
also she could be in Paris in just over 2 hrs
I didn't know that i can stay in this station. It's amazing!
Her love is infectious!
That clock tower..amazing...what a stunning place to live
did not really think about the living places in the gorgeous Grade 1 listed building. love it😍
So jealous... This is one amazing home!
such a beautiful building .. love to live there
Fab-u-LOUS!! What a great video.
she made rubbing his belly a bit awkward
It looks bad don't it 😂😂😂, although the statue wairs his trousers very high :p
***** ***that's what we where implying***
How fabulous, we lived near the station, great area although a little busy! If you are a people watcher it would be the place to be.
I love London.
Thank you for the tour. That was really nice....Apartments/Flats are there for you to apply to.
St Pancras is one of the most impressive buildings in London together with Houses of Parliament and Tower Bridge, there are quite a few actually the list would be quite long....
This video is fabulous
A great video thaks.
Very interesting!
Brilliant, love it. What a great place to live in especially if you like to people watch. 👍
Always get excited at St Pancras. Not so much for the station itself (notwithstanding its undoubted splendour), but for the promise of more exotic shores and climes. Yeah, the Eurostar holding-pen resembles nothing so much as an airport departure lounge, but just reading ‘Paris’, ‘Brussels’, or ‘Amsterdam’ on the departure boards quickens the pulse.
fabulous
If you like to live in London this must be 1 of the best places! I LOVE that they saved & restored this precious building; beautiful work. Tho' the kissing statue's a bit meh - But they should've also honoured the fab *Jane Fawcett* and The Victorian Society; J.Betjamin was great but there's now a common myth, which I fell for, that he saved St Pancras virtually single handed.
Kings Cross looks way better too since they removed the naff 1970s canopy! Rare that buildings look better these days; it's usually cuter older 1s getting flattened & replaced by cult-of-ugly boxes; feels uplifting to see things improving instead! 💜
Very cool.
Heavy breathing... fabulous!
Wonderful video. Was it difficult to get access.
I stayed in the hotel it was just OK very expensive but great location and classic building. I could easily live in an apartment like this.
I read that as "St. Pancreas" at first
I know how it's actually pronounced.......but I don't care. I still call it St. Pancreas.
Can you do other stations in London such as kings cross or Liverpool Street
Who remembers Whiteley’s near Bayswater..?
Thought it said "Pancreas station."
I will take one ticket to "Spleen station."
Great video thank you for sharing your house!
Bit concerned about the security aspect - so anyone can just walk around on the roof?
The station roof is off limits: the filmmakers here were granted special access on this occasion.
+St Pancras International that's a shame, would love to walk up there
Can't believe they were going to demolish St Pancras station, but then again many amazing building in London has been demolished.
Strictly speaking, nobody lives in St Pancras Station.
The Midland Hotel at the front of the Station was converted into flats in recent years.
How many platforms does the Eurostar have?
WHOAH! Wait, are there more apartments you can buy?
David Frankal I know. I hate city living but living above St.Pancras or similar would be brilliant. So jealous.
David Frankal They're crazy expensive. O.o
Up to 2 million...
Nardex I'll have 3.
I wonder if the offices above Victoria station in Manchester could be used as flats...
Vivement que la gare du Nord a Paris soit elle aussi rénové car elle en a grand besoin
One thing I find strange at St Pancras: The back of the hotel - particularly the layout and placement of windows, building heights etc..etc.. and the trainshed don't seem to belong to each other. There's no attempt to co-ordinate the 2 designs. It's like two separate buildings maybe 20 feet apart designed and built entirely independently of each other with no attempt to make a coherent whole. Didn't Barlow and Scott meet to work out how to fit the two buildings together? Doesn't look like it.
For those Americans not in the know, these are two distinct buildings made at two distinct times by two distinct architects. The hotel, and now residential apartments, of brick was constructed in 1873 to accommodate travelers on the St. Pamcras line; the Train-shed (St. Pancras Station) was built in 1868. Several on line sites explain the Station. Apparently, by 2000 the Midland Grand Hotel had fallen into some decrepitude. It was scheduled to be demolished in the mid-sixties but a concerted effort to save it was made and now is a Grade I building, here in in America would be called Architectural Heritage.
Vivement que la gare du Nord a Paris soit elle aussi rénové car elle en a grand besoin
If you look at the even older neighboring King's Cross Station, which can be seen in the video, the architect, Lewis Cubbitt, did a much better job of designing the station facade so that it expresses the same modernity as the state of the art train shed which lies behind. Notice that it contains none of the faux Gothic features that dominate the Midland Hotel face of St. Pancras Station. In college, I had to write a paper comparing the two stations. Victorian architects could be so modern and daring when it came to the structural aspects of a building (such as the St. Pancras train-shed) yet, most still opted for the stylistic ques from antiquity when it came to the public faces of a building.
I remember St Pancras before it was revamped and redeveloped. It was quite grey, dark and miserable except the booking hall which was beautiful. I can’t see they kept the booking hall which is great shame.
I was born in the center of london at St Thomas’ Hospital next to the london eye and i've always loved being in the center of london what would i do to have a flat like that
I'd love to live in a train station I love London I love trains and plains its my dream ( even though these apartments arent near an airport
Traindude1234 Shields Not many capital cities have an airport in the middle of them! Heathrow is only about ten miles away though. City airport even closer...
how much do i want to live there?!
wow >> tharts Cool tc
Bank you!
Vivement que la gare du Nord a Paris soit elle aussi rénové car elle en a grand besoin
0:37 Yeah, why would anyone want to visit "The North"? Sign...
I Like Bananas Sometimes people who like London thinks that anywhere outside the m25 is countryside. Midlands is cast as northern England and Bermingham is actually bigger than London. IN SIZE.
She's only talking about trains that depart from St Pancras directly.
FAB
As a child I called it st pancakes 😂
Here's a close-up of the fabulous sculptures: th-cam.com/video/m0n1-ik7ksU/w-d-xo.html
St. PANCREAS station. OW MI FUCKING PANCREAS!
Why is euston kings X and St Pancras Intl so close together in 1 place? Why not make a huge station?
Kings X and sp are pretty interconnected, was walking around the shops in st pancras today and popped out for some fresh air and realised I'd popped out of kings X
Liam Gaine and how about London Euston? And Why X you just call the 2 stations King‘s X St Pancras like the underground?
They will be connected if crossrail 2 is built
William Thomas so, Euston Cross Pancras?
Guess what? A 3-bedroom penthouse at St Pancras is on the market for 4.5 million pounds. Would love to own it myself.
ianwyj1 Pocket change! I'll take two!
Very nice but I wouldn't call the roof extension "fabulous", At the time of the extension Butterley were still going, they should have continued with the original design.
Haha, love the fact that the tummy of the statue is rubbed clean for good luck. The man should have been knighted for the tremendous service he did for Britain.
Love JB, but should've also had a statue of *Jane Fawcett!*
Victorians knew how to build, modern architecture is soulless
Imagine - Eating your breakfast, and walking down the staircase and you’re on your way to France, all within 10 minutes.
I was with you until the 'on your way to France'; I'd rather saunter down the road to a lovely English Pub, maybe I'm just not the 'travelling type'.. 😂
No excuses to be late for a train.
I want to live in a train station.
You can stay in the clock tower for £150 a night... www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/501171
Trains that go to the midlands
Choose Marylebone instead
Marylebone is a very nice station. Much smaller, less commercial. At a more human scale, yet elegant. Somewhat tucked away in a calmer setting.
POV: you watch this because your English teacher suggested :)
I love the Betjeman statue, but don't like the lovers one...
Recycle rings when London next get's the games they rebuil the rings
1:35... I don't think she is rubbing his tummy...
As much as i would love to live there, i would be so scared.. what if there was a terrorist attack or fire or something? Like, that's your home...
TheQueenaby I'd imagine fire would be less likely in St Pancreas to be honest, given it's a major overground station with modern design and constant monitoring.
Terrorist attacks are exceedingly rare, bare in mind St Pancreas has security as an international station, even then they're unlikely to bring down the whole building (most likely targeted at densely packed passengers on the platform, or in a ticket hall).
Now that's Britons out of the EU we will hopefully have to worry a bit less ;)
EuroStar is very fucking EURO.
IT IS THE FAT CONTROLLER!!
'Kinda like trains eh' . . nice one! Shame about the glass-house, who ever added that on it should be executed imo :D
She needs to work on her cardio, those stairs were killing her.
Weird video - weird that the resident is the host of the entire video, not one of the Londonist staff member
Jack Hackett
And with good reason, she likely knows more about the entire station than Geoff
Interesting, but I found her a tad annoying.