All ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV articles in Channel Tunnel Rail Link Supplement December 2005

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  • Tessa Jowell
    Features

    From train to track

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    As well as being a vital part of the UK’s economic infrastructure, the Channel Tunnel Rail Link will play a key role in making London’s Olympics a success.

  • Connecting east London to the Continent: two views of the vast Stratford International Station
    Features

    Stratford-upon-Thames

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    The grim accumulation of brick and concrete known as the London Borough of Newham is about to become an international demonstration of what skill, inspiration and a great deal of money can achieve …

  • Angus Boag
    Features

    Once in a life time

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    One of the things about the grandeur of the King’s Cross projects is that they provide up-and-coming developers with a chance to step up to the superleague. Elaine Knutt found out how the Manhattan Loft Corporation’s Angus Boag is planning to do just that

  • Track laying under London
    Features

    The incredible journey

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Who’d have thought that building a simple rail line from Kent to London would involve so much work, undertaken by so many people, touching so much of the country and affecting so many water voles? Here’s a quick look at the big picture

  • The large hallways, which, in its day would  have been very grand
    Features

    St Pancras Midland Grand Hotel: A hotel to remember

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    The Midland Grand Hotel used to be a vast, obsolete luxury liner moored alongside St Pancras station. Then it was an office, then a ruin, and in a few years it will become something truly splendid.

  • Rural Kent
    Features

    The state of the garden

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    If Kent’s the garden of England, then Alan Titchmarsh would have something to say about the way it’s been kept. Much of the north coast, for example, is a post-industrial mess – but that is about to change.

  • Stephen Jordan
    Features

    Right down the line

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    When the CTRL is built, it promises to create a kind of chemical reaction all down its length: grey, post-industrial landscapes will turn into sleek mixed-use developments, business parks and green spaces. Katie Puckett asked LCR’s Stephen Jordan how he intends to keep that promise

  • ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV

    Right down the line

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    What the Channel Tunnel Rail Link means for the South-east

  • Roger Madelin
    Features

    A confident man

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Roger Madelin has waited 20 years to tackle the father, mother and great aunt of all regeneration projects: London King’s Cross. So how come he’s looking so calm, so relaxed?

  • The City of Dreadful Night, captured by Dickens and still going strong today
    Features

    A tale of two cities

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    The one on this page shows the City of Dreadful Night, captured by Dickens and still going strong today; the other exists only in computers, but if all goes to plan, it’ll be with us tomorrow.

  • Features

    The big picture

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Here, gathered in the soon-to-be-restored gothic splendour of St Pancras Chambers, are a tiny fraction of the people who’ve made CTRL a reality.

  • The roof of St Pancras has had its ugly post-war roof covering replaced with glazing and slated areas to engineer William Barlow’s original design.
    Features

    This’ll be the big one

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    The vast industrial cathedral of St Pancras is testament to the ingenious engineering of our Victorian forebears and the endurance of wrought iron. But how can it be made into a 21st-century terminus?