After doing service for nearly a century Euston Station is 10 be rebuilt. "It will be the most important scheme to be carried out by the IMS. under the Government's Joan scheme for transport development, My. Percy 'Thomas, the Royal Institute of British Architects' youngest president for a hundred years, has been appointed consulting architect. He will cole Inborate with the company's architect, 'Mr. W. H. Hamlyn, and the Chief Civit Engineer, Mr.' W. K, Wallace. Reconstruction of the station will Me volve the complete demolition of all the buildings, including the hotel, between the station and Euston Road. The new building will be brought nearer the main thoroughfare. This wil enable the platforms to be iengthened—a matter which has become urgent now that the trains are longer. A start is to be made as soon as the Anal designs have been approved by the Board, Demolition of the old station will involve the fate of two unique features in railway architect ture. The flat panelled ceiling of the great hall, the biggest waiting room in the British isles, is copied from the famous root of St.. Paul outside-the-Walls at Rome. The only other specimen is in Buckingham Palace. It has not been decided whether or not this and the famous Done portico reputed to have cost £30.000 will be embodied in the new
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