Good news for regular users of Euston station in London! One day they will die. Then they won’t have to go to Euston station ever again. Most Observer readers have probably been to Euston station at some point in their lives but I do advise any of you who haven’t to stick that fact on the list the next time you count your blessings. It’s horrible. Its architects have managed to design a place compared with which arriving in Birmingham seems nice.
Nevertheless, humanity being such a relentlessly self-defeating species, this nasty building bizarrely suffers from a phenomenon known as the “Euston rush”, when it becomes even more unpleasant, and potentially dangerous, because there are so many people there. So many thousands of people desperately trying to be in Euston station for thousands of different reasons of their own. But also, in a way, the same reason: they go to Euston station in the hope of leaving it as soon as possible. So a glimmer of sanity there.
