November 21, 2007

Station Recognizes Travelers Needs With Plug Equipped Lengthy Bar

by Piers Fawkes

The revitalized St Pancreas station in London has extra features for the traveling nomadic worker (and overworked commuter). In the waiting area, Antony Mayfield spotted a very long champagne bar (95 meters) with stools and power sockets in both UK and European flavors. He says:

Determined champagne lover though I am, it was a little early for me to be able to check that out. However, I was hugely impressed by what has to be the first transport hub in the UK I’ve seen that’s been designed for the needs of the laptop age, to wit a very, very long bar with stools and loads of power sockets in European and UK formats.

Antony Mayfield’s blog
St Pancreas review in the Observer
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2 Responses to “Station Recognizes Travelers Needs With Plug Equipped Lengthy Bar”

  1. Antony Mayfield
    Posted from: 62.50.217.254

    November 21st, 2007 at 11:32 am

    Alas the champagne bar is separate from the laptop bar… probably for the best, one should never drink and blog. :-)

  2. John Voelcker
    Posted from: 66.65.161.30

    November 22nd, 2007 at 8:08 am

    Errrr, Piers, that would be St. PANCRAS station (not pancreas, which is one of the squishy bits deep inside us all). And a happy U.S. Thanksgiving to ya! (Canadian Thanksgiving was 5 weeks ago…)

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