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To: TobagoJack who wrote (180720)	11/24/2021 7:47:35 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218617

St Pancras is a wonderful Train Station, I was using it regularly recently on trips North until I moved. The history of London St Pancras International station - Network Rail It was close to getting demolished in the 1970's. I did consider turning into a squat at one point, but we lowered our sights later to some condemned flats for railway workers (condemned in the 19th century) but also were never demolished for some reason. Later I left them to move to the USA and my brother stayed in them as a pennyless poet. Margeret Thatcher made him get a job in a Library, and he still works there... not that he has to really. The big break came when the French, bless their hearts, finished up the Channel Tunnel rail infrastructure way ahead of Britain make us look like silly laggards, which we were. Thatcher made the Chunnel rail infrastructure top priority, and St Pancras was chosen as the Terminus. The new Chunnel rail network had to go right through a point where some squatters were living in flats that had been condemned in the 19th century. Yep... that was an interesting negotiation :-) So I have fond memories of the place, and London generally. St Pancras is a huge station on three levels, and very near both Kings Cross & Euston stations too. St. Pancras International \| London Travel, Shopping & Dining (stpancras.com) Trains are so much cheaper and environmentally friendly than roads. Especially for freight. We need "container terminals" for train stations so the truck drivers just have to do the last 50 miles or so. It will make their lives better too, just having to drive locally. The idea of driverless trucks on the roads travelling from one end of the country to the other is particularly numbskull thinking when trains are designed for doing that exact job with much simpler and reliable technology. Far cheaper when all things are considered. Boris is "stressed" so he isn't doing anything right, and that guy planned to put a bridge over to Northern Ireland at one point. I doubt he can even piss in a pot these days. Just noticed there is a $250k reward on Fauci's head. I wonder if we could crowd fund it to make that a much bigger number. -g- (June 2021). $250,000 reward for Fauci whistleblowers (trialsitenews.com)