“St Pancras was a 14-year-old Christian boy, who was martyred in Rome in by the Emperor Diocletian. In England he is better known as a railway station.” With these immortal words, Sir John Betjeman set in motion the most astonishing transformation of fortunes of any British building in modern times. Who would have thought, when the first Eurostar from Paris pulled in at 12.46 pm on Tuesday after its record-breaking 2hr 03 min run through the Channel Tunnel that just […]




