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Quote in italics from London 4:
North by Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner
(2001), Yale University Press, New Haven and London:
TRAIN SHED. The iron shed ... is one of the outstanding surviving
examples of Victorian functionalism and daring, designed by W.H. Barlow,
assisted by R.M. Ordish. The iron work was made by the Butterley Company
and was originally painted sky-blue (and has now been
restored to that colour). Wrought-iron lattice arch ribs rise
100 ft to meet in a slightly pointed apex. They spring from platform
level, without supporting columns. The floor supporting the platforms and
tracks acts as the tie to the arch. The upper part of the roof was
entirely glazed (the glass was reduced to two narrow strips when repaired
after damage in the Second World War). The iron-pillared 'vaults' beneath,
of dimensions precisely calculated (on a grid of 14 ft 6 in) for storing
Burton beer barrels, raise the tracks nearly 20 ft above Euston Road, so
that the trains could run on the level from Camden Town, over the Regent's
Canal and Fleet River. (These beer barrel vaults are now the arrival
and departure area for Eurostar - see picture above). ... |
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