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The museums, the machines and the men and women who worked it out: laboratories kept as they were, beam engines under steam, the tunnel, the barrier, the roofs, and the plaques on the houses where the ideas came.
William Barlow's roof of 1868, a single iron arch two hundred and forty feet across, the widest in the world when it went up.
Engineering landmarksFree
The Midland Railway wanted a station that beat King's Cross next door and got the largest enclosed space on earth: Barlow's wrought-iron ribs spring from platform level and meet a hundred feet up without a tie, because the ties are the floor - the platforms sit on a deck of iron columns spaced to the width of a Burton beer barrel, since the undercroft was built for beer. Restored for the Eurostar in 2007, the shed is now sky-blue again with the champagne bar down the middle, and the Betjeman statue looks up at it. Scott's hotel in front is the other half of the building.
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