The Shires Bar, St Pancras Station [Closed] - pub details

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Shires Bar
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Address: St. Pancras Station, London, N1 9AP [map] [gmap]

Tel: 0871 917 0007 (ref 611)

Nearest tube stations King's Cross St. Pancras (0.1 miles), Euston Square (0.6 miles), Euston (0.6 miles)

Nearest train stations London Kings Cross (0 miles), London Kings Cross - Thameslink (0.1 miles), London St Pancras (0.2 miles)

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> Current user rating: 5.2/10 (rated by 4 users)
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user reviews of the Shires Bar, St Pancras Station

please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.

Happy times spent here waiting for the train back to Derby - it felt more like something from there than a London pub. Not tried the replacement Betjeman Arms, but somehow I don't think it will quite match the character of this place. Still, it beats the portakabin temporary replacement on platform 12 which I guess has (thankfully) gone.
OldRogue - 2 Jan 2009 11:19
I totally agree with Loz, and so the closure of this pub is a great shame. It will no doubt reopen properly one day but I expect it will reappear as a swanky bar instead.

As someone who regularly passes through St. Pancras, this pub felt like a local. It was smelly, old-fashioned with bad beer but friendly none the less. As a result it was far more like a locals pub than a tourist or business one.

The one downside was the prevelance of beggars in the pub or beggars from outside who came in to use the fruit machines.
anonymous - 7 Jul 2005 23:07
Note, that this has now been closed because of the St Pancreas station re-build for the channel-tunnel link and has been replaced with a like-named portakabin affair at the end of the new platforms.

One assumes that this is temporary until the old station is re-opened (though that's a while off yet).
stabbogaz - 2 Aug 2004 15:13
Pubs on railway stations are either transient and soulless (e.g. Coopers), or expensive, aimed at the passing posh City totty (e.g. Reef Bar). In contrast, this feels like a local pub, old fashioned, dark and dingy, and might not be to the taste of people with 21st century expectations. However, I would consider this pub not to be solely for passing trade, more than just a Quicksnacks with a license.
Loz - 18 Aug 2002 01:52

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