St Pancras International is a railway terminus on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden, designed by the engineer William Henry Barlow and opened on October 1, 1868 for the Midland Railway. Barlow's single-span train shed roof, 689 feet long, 240 feet wide and 100 feet high, was the largest enclosed space in the world when built, and its wrought iron lattice framework remains the station's defining feature. The Gothic Revival hotel that fronts the station on Euston Road was designed separately by George Gilbert Scott. Threatened with demolition in the 1960s, St Pancras was saved by a campaign led by the poet John Betjeman and the Victorian Society, and after an 800 million pound refurbishment it reopened in November 2007 as London's terminus for Eurostar services to France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
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George Gilbert Scotts Midland Grand frontage, a flagship of High Victorian architecture.
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