By a coincidence, yesterday, we were watching the French women’s #Rugby team play in the #WorldCup and today, here we are in #Paris. We decided to come by #Eurostar which means avoiding flying and is a much greener and altogether more pleasant and convenient way to travel. Who says #Britain is an island where you can get on a #train at #StPancras station and within two and a half hours, your at the #GareDuNord right in the middle of Paris?
Un escalier digne d’un conte de fées ✨🏰
Le grand escalier du St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel, à Camden (Londres), mêle faste victorien et élégance gothique. Chaque marche semble inviter à entrer dans l’histoire… ou dans un film d’époque 🇬🇧
#Londres #Architecture #Patrimoine #StPancras #Voyage #Hôtel

Solar Panels at the British Library

Image courtesy of the British Library

The British Library has installed solar panels on its roof, which went live last year.

The panels are a mixture of solar hot water, and some solar electricity. The installation was especially tricky because the Library building is Grade 1 listed (the highest level), and the new solar panels weren’t allowed to be seen from the street.

In the past 12 months, they have generated 186 MWh of heat, and 14.8 MWh of electrical energy.

The British Library needs a lot of heat to generate steam which allows them to closely control the humidity levels inside, which is required to help preserve the historical documents that they store.

The British Library is aiming to be Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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#BritishLibrary #CamdenTown #KingsCross #Solar #SomersTown #StPancras

Coward, as well as bigot....

Tommy Robinson 'punched old man so hard it knocked him out', witness claims.

A witness has claimed Tommy Robinson 'knocked out' an 'old man' at St Pancras station prior to a video which showed the far-right activist saying 'he come at me'.

https://archive.is/G0px2

#TommyRobinson #StephenYaxleyLennon #Coward #Bigot #StPancras

Photo of the day: 201/365 #stpancras
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@jon #Gemini have been in the UK press this week promoting a Stratford-Ebbsfleet-Europe competitor to #Eurostar again. Difficult to see how they can finish/reverse/start at #Stratford without major track works, running empty into #StPancras and back out, or resignalling the Camden Road ramp to enable HS1-only stock on it. Then there's the problem of fitting border posts into Stratford's constrained pre-Brexit station space.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/travel/35145828/uk-railway-station-new-trains-europe-paris/
#uktrains
Huge boost for Brits as UK railway station set to get first direct trains to Europe in nearly a decade...

A MAJOR UK train station could get new routes to Europe again – five years after they were scrapped. Ebbsfleet International in Kent used to be a stopping station for Eurostar. This included …

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