"Stations," writes Derek Jarman in Modern Nature (1991), "attract all those who have no journey to take; they provide warmth, a roof in a sudden storm, and the illusion of being at the hub of things."
The picture up top is of the Lewis Cubitt-designed King's Cross Station (1852) 43-years after it's construction, circa 1895.
King's Cross Station appears in the third verse of The Proclaimer's "It Broke My Heart" (1987):
Saw the son who's been gone two weeks
And he's down already with a job to seek
And he's in King's Cross and there's no one speaking that
Broke my heart
And then the refrain, which sounds familiar in light of the royals:
Talked about it with the family now who
What began in sadness ended up a row
All the guys with the clever mouths
They were saying we should move south
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