THE ORIGINAL STATION When St Pancras Station was built in Victorian times, it took 6,000 It and 1,000 horses five cost £436,000 opened in 1868, years to complete, an the great in and designed by Below, w H. He created a cathedral on two floors for there was an enormous basement, used as a storage area beer coming south from breweries in Above this floor, the Midlands. he built a vast crystal palace, the tallest and widest of its day, and one of the great feats of Victorian engineering. glass all feet The roof, the(75 wide, appeared to float ported. It crossed five platforms in a single, undivided span.