RAG @ St Pancras International
The redevelopment of St Pancras International Station has transformed it in to the place to be seen, you can still see that it remains one of the greatest Victorian buildings in London and the new home of the Eurostar, but now has a shopping arcade, farmers market, its own specially commissioned art work not to mention top quality restaurants and bars including the longest champagne bar in Europe.
But in 2009 the St Pancras International Hotel will reopen its doors after being closed for 73 years, the hotel once the Midlands Grand Hotel, designed in 1865 by George Gilbert Scott at a cost of £315,000 opened on 5th May 1873 but sadly closed by 1935.
The hotel and station were saved from demolition in the 1960's due to a public out cry led by the then Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman, but even as a Grade 1 listed building it was only ever used as offices.
1994 the decision to use St Pancras Station as the core for the Channel Tunnel rail link gave hope for the hotel, then in 2005 planning consent was granted for the refurbishment of the former Midland Grand Hotel to be extended as a hotel and apartment block to be opened in 2009.
Its in the St Pancras International Hotel that RAG have installed one of our Fully Automated Wireless Temperature Monitoring Solutions so the former glory of the Hotel will live again as a 5 start International hotel with its Gothic shell but state of the art kitchens being monitored 24/7 365 days of the year by the leading innovation in wireless temperature monitoring from RAG.
