Some have called it Britain’s greatest case of cultural vandalism. In 1837, work was completed on Euston Grove, the country’s first inter-city train station, which connected London with points north. Three years later, after Queen Victoria’s inauguration, the station embarked on a significant expansion, which came to include a massive waiting hall, the world’s first railway hotels, and a 70-foot tall, free-standing entablatured Doric propylaeum—the largest arch of its type ever built. Euston Station, as it came to be known, was considered one of the finest examples of Victorian train…
