Pancras at the moment Britain officially filed for divorce from the European Union. “We should be moving together,” he said of Europe, “instead of moving apart.” “We’ve made a horrible statement to the rest of the world, and it’s very sad,” said Martin Eden, a publisher waiting to catch the Eurostar to Paris the other day, to celebrate his 43rd birthday. This article is part of a series examining whether “Brexit” will sink a great global city. The trains are still running, but the era that created modern London appears to be over. At least that was the idea until now, and the beginning of the process known as Brexit. To ride the Eurostar was to marvel that the capitals - London so prosaic and straightforward, Paris so romantic and mysterious, the two with their long history of rivalry and discord - were part of the same larger enterprise.Įurostar symbolized an era in which London seemed to be inevitably rushing toward Europe, too. It was both shocking and thrilling, at first, that you could catch a Eurostar from a platform in London, slide under the English Channel, hurtle through the French countryside and less than three hours later pull into the Gare du Nord in Paris. Pancras International rail station, a wonder of Victorian architecture resurrected for the 21st century, opened 10 years ago as the embodiment of a particular notion: that Britain is part of something bigger than itself and that belonging to a fellowship of nations is as easy and natural as stepping onto a train. Visitors reflected in the glass of a viewing platform at the top of the Shard, Western Europe’s tallest building.
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