European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                 continued from Page 3. Trains that will run through the Channe Tunnel to France is going up on the. North Side of Waterloo station the Only major station South of the River thames. This sinuous 1,300-foot-Long Structure curves with the tracks in a Way that recalls the dramatic arching curved ironwork roofs of the station built at York in 1877. Designed by Nicholas scrimshaw amp partners the new building has a cantilevered roof built of Glass Scales and a jointed skeletal steel Frame painted electric Blue snaking and tapering gradually As it follows the curve of the tracks instead of straddling them crosswise. It adds a futuristic dimension to the existing edwardian Structure of Waterloo which resembles a vast aircraft hangar built before its time. The International terminal will be completed by summer Well ahead of the trains and according to Jonathan Clancey architecture editor of the Independent newspaper it promises to be one of the finest railway buildings anywhere in the world. Another he says is the terminal planned at King s Cross next to St. Pancras for the High Speed line that will be built to parallel the existing routes to the Channel , Germany in the Haupt Bohnhof in Cologne a dozing passenger on one of the Deutsche Bun Desbah s comfortable intercity expresses could Wake up and think he or she had arrived at a Cathedral for the gothic seat of the archbishops of Cologne is not 50 Yards away and visible from the windows of arriving trains. The trains that rumble past today Are All pulled by electric or diesel locomotives but As late As the Early 1960s, expresses to Hamburg and local trains to Aachen were often pulled by steam locomotives. The Bridge and the platforms next to the Cathedral were a magnificent spot from which i to watch 20th-Century technology billowing Clouds of steam and smoke against the backdrop of the 13th-and 1-1th-Century stones of the Cathedral apse. Most of those stones have had to be replaced in a restoration that is nearly Complete they Are Safe for the next Century for steam with its corrosive Clouds of us Lurous Coal smoke is gone. To keep automobile exhaust from doing As much damage the Dom plate a sort of giant Stone lid was built Over the streets Between the station and the North Side of die Cathedral. That the Cathedral survived at All is a tribute both to its colossal size and mass and to the accuracy of British and american the Interior of St Pancras station. Sir George Gilbert Scott the architect said after the building was completed in 1872 that possibly it was Quot too Good for its  bomber navigators in world War ii for the station and the Bridge that carries trains across the Rhine As soon As they head East were badly damaged. Much of the station is therefore literally a reconstruction. The soaring steel and Glass roof Over the station platforms gives some flavor of die original designed by Johann Eduard Jacobsthal As does die alte wart Saal hard to find but on the station s South Side right under the do Platte. This once the waiting room is How a restaurant and bar restored to its original Art Deco splendor. The platforms Are considerably longer now than they were when the station was designed in the 1890s, and to keep passengers out of the rain on the East end there is an elegant set of latticework Glass roofs Paris one would somehow expect the great railway stations of Paris to have their own distinct gastronomic zones. Auve gnat cafes Are clustered around the care d Austerlitz because this is where trains from the Auvergne arrive and depart. Similarly you can always find a crop Erie Bretonnel close to the bretons Gateway to Paris the dare de Montparnasse. Since Lyon is one of the capitals of French gastronomy it seems fitting that the Gare de Lyon is Home to a restaurant whose sumptuous Interior decor is As much an attraction As the food. The station How one of the Points of departure ,. S4s Jim of Jaheim latticework Glass roofs cover the waiting platforms near the 10 tracks that run in and out of the Cologne train station. A Sis fico the Gare de Lyon is Home to a restaurant whose sumptuous Interior decor is As much an attraction As the food. Stripes Magazine january 21, 1993