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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Abbie Llewelyn

Euston station’s marble columns ‘would fall off’ without bands, rail minister admits

Euston Station in central London has deteriorated to the point where its marble columns are held together by bands because “it would fall off without them”, the rail minister has said.

Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill, who is a former chairman of Network Rail, told the House of Lords that Euston Station, one of Britain’s busiest, is “no longer in fit condition”.

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