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In 1962, workers demolished the Euston Arch with sledgehammers. The great Doric gateway — built in 1837 as a symbol of railway ambition — was gone in weeks. Nobody planned to give St Pancras the same treatment. They simply assumed it was inevitable.
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Betjeman’s statue stands in the station he saved, forever looking up at the roof above the platforms. The Eurostar slides out beneath the iron and glass. The clock on the tower ticks. St Pancras endures — because one man refused to let it go.
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