Eurostar's chunnel vision


	Eurostar's chunnel vision

merrie

9-26-2007 8:58 PM

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london, chunnel, eurostar terminal, thames gateway,

merrie says:

Video Eurostar train breaks record Romance of rail has returned.
The engineer, William Henry Barlow, was responsible for the shed. The architect, Sir George Gilbert Scott, designed the hotel every bit as grand.

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the completion of a project that surely ranks among the wonders of
the modern age.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/united-kingdom/eurostars-chunnel-vision/2007/09/20/1189881663850.html">Involving the construction of 150 bridges and major stations at
Stratford and Ebbsfleet, the high-speed rail link between London
and the Channel tunnel has taken 11 years to build at a cost of
£5.8 billion ($13.8 billion).</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/united-kingdom/eurostars-chunnel-vision/2007/09/20/1189881663850.html">the
comprehensive restoration of its new London terminus.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/united-kingdom/eurostars-chunnel-vision/2007/09/20/1189881663850.html">It comprises two intimately linked parts: a
cavernous, cast-iron train shed and the neo-gothic Grand Midland
Hotel into which it docks.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/united-kingdom/eurostars-chunnel-vision/2007/09/20/1189881663850.html">The hotel extension is detailed in a manner broadly in keeping
with the original building, but another addition is considerably
more obtrusive. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/united-kingdom/eurostars-chunnel-vision/2007/09/20/1189881663850.html">The Eurostar trains are twice the length of the
Victorian shed, so a vast, table-like canopy has been appended to
its rear gable.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/united-kingdom/eurostars-chunnel-vision/2007/09/20/1189881663850.html">In just seven weeks, St Pancras station replaces Waterloo as
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construction project to be undertaken in Britain.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DCD4F362-A68C-4CEF-8A57-8CC5E264296B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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