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  • Because of the dominating presence of the EuroStar trains, it has to be admitted that St Pancras is now something of a cross between a railway station and an airport.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • That means in a few weeks time … a link from St. Pancras, which is two stops away on the tube.

    holiday 2007

  • The train left from St Pancras, which is right next to King’s Cross, so it was on the way.

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • The train left from St Pancras, which is right next to King’s Cross, so it was on the way.

    A Quick Hello and Some New Books 2007

  • The train had now stopped at King's Cross St Pancras, and they watched as a young woman struggled to make her way into the crowded compartment with a suitcase and a baby in a sling and two small children.

    Helen Simpson | Cockfosters 2011

  • Best of all, at less than two hours by train from St Pancras station in London and less than an hour by car from Calais or Dunkirk, it's practically on our doorstep.

    Enjoy an autumn city break in Flanders 2011

  • So far, there is just one line of 100 kilometers connecting the channel tunnel with St. Pancras Station in north London.

    Expect Delays Christian Wolmar 2011

  • The Channel Tunnel rail link, the renovation of St Pancras and the Jubilee Line extension show how we can get big projects right .

    If we can organise the Olympics, why can't we get the basics right? | Matthew Taylor 2011

  • Thanks to brand new track laid through Kent, it now takes only two hours and fifteen minutes to go from Paris Gare du Nord to London St. Pancras: an hour and twenty minutes to Calais via Lille (approx 190 miles); twenty minutes at low speed through the Chunnel; and thirty-five minutes to cover the 75 miles or so from Dover to London.

    Eurostar 2009

  • In Horse Guards Parade David Cameron played a spot of beach volleyball, while at St Pancras Station, Lord Coe, chairman of the organising committee, and Colin Jackson, a silver medallist in the 110m hurdles at Seoul in 1988, were having their famous feet cast to represent "the first steps to the Games".

    London 2012: Ten best of the web | Callum Davies and Sam Joiner 2011

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