I have just been sent Ptolemy Dean’s excellent and admirably clear account (see below) of the renovation of Liverpool Street Station in the 1980s which is itself now an integral part of the history of the station, done with sensitivity following the battle to save the station in the 1970s.

It seems so strange that this battle should have to be fought all over again, as if nothing has been learned.  And that Network Rail is so impoverished that they cannot afford to put in proper disabled access without selling off the air space over the station.  And that Herzog & de Meuron should lend their international architectural authority to such a horrible scheme.