St Pancras Glass Roof

2007 restored st pancras railway station upper level with steel roof structure and eurostar train platforms located in borough of camden london uk.

St pancras glass roof.

Pancras station london designed by william henry barlow. St pancras station history. The project also included renovation of the masonry mosaics and ironwork of the station using original materials. A new grand terminus for london st pancras s mid 19th century roots lie continued.

The victorian engineers roof at st pancras forms a pointed arch and has always seemed the very model of a modern gothic vault all iron and glass rather than medieval stone and marble. About 18 000 panes of self cleaning glass were added to the extension. Workers cleaned 300 000 pounds of dirt from the bricks and restored 8 000 panes of glass in the roof of the immense. It seems this rooftop bar at the st pancras renaissance is under the radar.

The curved glass roof of st pancras station london england uk. Photograph and text by george p. The roof of the shed was also reglazed and repainted its original pale sky blue colour using about 200 000l of paint. Today 1 october london st pancras international one of our most famous and iconic railway stations turns 150 years old.

St pancras rail station london. After a 20th century decline st. Owned by hs1 limited and managed by network rail today st pancras is a crucial london interchange providing a regional intercity continental and high speed railway. Roof garden st pancras.

The trusses are linked by longitudinal purlins and rising to a slight point at the crown. St pancras railway station in london was a marvel of victorian engineering when the station opened in 1868 with the largest single span roof in the world constructed from iron and glass. Pancras got a recent 800 million makeover. The roof is made up of a series of twenty five principal arched trusses each weighing 55 tons set at regular intervals and built into massive brick piers.

But was served in a jumbo copa glass and seemed. The roof of st pancras station camden london nw1. St pancras is at the southern end of the london borough of camden on a site orientated north south deeper than it is wide.