Image 45143, 17.00 London St. Pancras-Bedford (2G17), London St. Pancras station
45143, 17.00 London St. Pancras-Bedford (2G17), London St. Pancras station
45143, 17.00 London St. Pancras-Bedford (2G17), London St. Pancras station A wide angled photograph of the grand train shed at St. Pancras that is seen undergoing some British Rail 'style' improvements! By now the decision to save the station from demolition had been made but BR simply did not have the funding to complete a full and much-needed restoration so there was a repair and make do approach until the much-heralded transformation that we are all so familiar with commenced in 2002. In this view, 45143 '5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards' is waiting to depart leading the 2G17 17.00 commuter service to Bedford. There were a number of locomotive hauled morning and evening peak services (excusing the pun!) composed of a scratch set of Mk. 1stock hauled by a locomotive of some kind. Notice the contractors' cars parked on the platform near their scaffolding. There is a blue Vauxhall Viva HC Firenza Coupé and a now ultra-rare red 'N' registered Fiat 124 Special with its twin headlights and period bumper-mounted fog or driving lamps. Because of using the wide-angled lens, this photograph did need a fair amount of Photoshop tweaking to straighten out the curved verticals and horizontals producing what I think is a great result! Keywords: 45143 17.00 London St. Pancras-Bedford MIdland 2G17 London St. Pancras station 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards Peak
45143, 17.00 London St. Pancras-Bedford (2G17), London St. Pancras station A wide angled photograph of the grand train shed at St. Pancras that is seen undergoing some British Rail 'style' improvements! By now the decision to save the station from demolition had been made but BR simply did not have the funding to complete a full and much-needed restoration so there was a repair and make do approach until the much-heralded transformation that we are all so familiar with commenced in 2002. In this view, 45143 '5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards' is waiting to depart leading the 2G17 17.00 commuter service to Bedford. There were a number of locomotive hauled morning and evening peak services (excusing the pun!) composed of a scratch set of Mk. 1stock hauled by a locomotive of some kind. Notice the contractors' cars parked on the platform near their scaffolding. There is a blue Vauxhall Viva HC Firenza Coupé and a now ultra-rare red 'N' registered Fiat 124 Special with its twin headlights and period bumper-mounted fog or driving lamps. Because of using the wide-angled lens, this photograph did need a fair amount of Photoshop tweaking to straighten out the curved verticals and horizontals producing what I think is a great result! Keywords: 45143 17.00 London St. Pancras-Bedford MIdland 2G17 London St. Pancras station 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards Peak


A wide angled photograph of the grand train shed at

St. Pancras that is seen undergoing some British Rail 'style' improvements! By now the decision to save the station from demolition had been made but BR simply did not have the funding to complete a full and much-needed restoration so there was a repair and make do approach until the much-heralded transformation that we are all so familiar with commenced in 2002. In this view, 45143 '5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards' is waiting to depart leading the 2G17 17.00 commuter service to Bedford. There were a number of locomotive hauled morning and evening peak services (excusing the pun!) composed of a scratch set of Mk. 1stock hauled by a locomotive of some kind. Notice the contractors' cars parked on the platform near their scaffolding. There is a blue Vauxhall Viva HC Firenza Coupé and a now ultra-rare red 'N' registered Fiat 124 Special with its twin headlights and period bumper-mounted fog or driving lamps. Because of using the wide-angled lens, this photograph did need a fair amount of Photoshop tweaking to straighten out the curved verticals and horizontals producing what I think is a great result!