Euston tube station (or is it Eweston?) is certainly doing big adverts these days! In October 2018 hordes of people were visiting the station, often going out of their way just to see the impressive Twenty One Pilots advert which featured the music duo’s latest album, Trench. The pics IRead More →
On this day fifty years ago the Queen opened the new Euston station. This embedded video (below) from You Tube shows pretty much the whole proceedings. The large stone unveiled by the Queen still stands to this day near the escalators leading to the tube station. Euston station is aRead More →
This is the third of my reports on HS2. The previous was made in May 2018 thus four months has elapsed. HS2’s progress is quite well underway with some demolition already having taking place. The earliest structure to be demolished was Euston Downside Carriage Maintenance Depot in Park Crescent West/GranbyRead More →
Since the first post on Euston HS2 just over two months ago there have been a number of changes. The biggest perhaps is the pedestrian diversions that began at Easter. Whilst these might seem sensible I found they were somewhat misleading in terms of distances to Euston Square station. TheRead More →
Almost fifty and a half years ago the very first Victoria Line station opened. What?? No that can’t be possible, the line didn’t open until later in 1968. This is no anniversary of any sort! Get your facts right LondonBlog! Please let me have a say, thanks! This new station’sRead More →
In my previous articles on Euston Square, I’ve discussed it’s dreadful condition. This week Londonist listed six reasons the Euston Arch should’nt be rebuilt, some in jest of course. I add a seventh, serious, reason – the damn authorities can’t look after the square! There’s a growing hole in theRead More →
London’s Euston Square is a well-known tube station, but where is the REAL Euston square? Like many others, I always assumed this station denoted a grand square someplace. Let’s face it Leicester Square, Russell Square, Sloane Square, and the old Trafalgar Square tube stations were adjacent to real majestic LondonRead More →