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...government announced it would merge St. Pancras with Kings Cross, demolishing the former in favour of a sports center and social housing. But a campaign led by the then poet laureate Sir John Betjeman galvanized public opinion already stung by the demolition of the nearby old Euston station a few years earlier...
...Every morning, around 9:10 a.m., the 59 bus creeps out of Streatham Hill Bus Garage to start its journey through London to Euston Station. By the time it reaches Brixton about 10 minutes later, it?s standing room only, filled with people jostling for space on their morning commute. And it?s noisy. People chat loudly to each other or on their mobile phones, while mothers try to comfort wailing babies and kids turn their MP3 players up so high that the music seeps out from their headphones in a buzzing, tinny beat. It stays that way until...
...elegiac title poem Westward is about another journey, from London's Euston Station by rail toward the Western Isles of Scotland. Contemplating Margaret Thatcher's England, she reflects on the "frayed-/ out gradual of the retreat from empire." The Prairie is a reverie, expressed with extreme simplicity, on the peregrinations of her forebears from the Midwest to California and back again. "To be landless, half a nomad, nowhere wholly/ at home, is to discover, now, an epic theme/ in going back," she concludes. Clampitt is wisest when she is plainest. At her best, she writes poetry that, in Marianne Moore...
...bomb was only the first in a stepped-up campaign of terror last week in Britain. Police believe it is the work of the Irish Republican Army. Forty-five minutes after the King's Cross explosion, a second bomb ripped through a snack bar at Euston station, half a mile away. Later in the week two more bombs exploded at office buildings in the heart of London. Although there have been more than 40 bombing incidents in the past month, no one−extraordinarily−has been killed. But as the risks and casualties have mounted (31 people injured...
...Royal Mail train pulled out of Glasgow one night last week, bound for London's Euston station, 401 miles to the south. Aboard were 70 employees of the General Post Office, locked into twelve maroon-colored coaches, each bearing the royal coat of arms and the royal cipher, E R II. As they sped along at 80 m.p.h., the postal clerks busily sorted letters from hundreds of mailbags scooped up from gantries en route. In the "High Value" coach right behind the diesel locomotive, five particularly experienced sorters were on duty, sealed into their car with a pre cious...