London St Pancras Station Drawings

One roll of 17 contract drawings for construction of London St Pancras Station. Predominently for the roof structure and ironwork.

London Saint Pancras station was built as the terminus of the Midland Railway's London extension, opening in 1868. Prior to the construction of the railway, the Midland Railway had no independenty line to the capital and trains to and from London had to run over railways owned by other companies. The station was designed by William Henry Barlow. The iconic single span roof was the largest of its kind in the world when the station opened. It is 689 feet long, 240 feet wide and 100 feet long.