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Euston Station
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(London NW1) London's earliest and until recently grandest terminus, which opened in 1837 and was designed by Philip Hardwick (1792–1870) for Robert *Stephenson's London and Birmingham railway. To suggest the importance of this new iron road to the industrial heart of the kingdom, the station was approached through a vast Doric arch, completed in 1838. In 1846–9 there was added the Great Hall, the concourse at which passengers arrived, designed by Hardwick's son, P.C. Hardwick. This splendour was all swept away in 1963, in spite of much protest, to make way for the present drearily functional station.
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