 Euston railway station opened in 1837, the first railway station connecting London with the industrial heartlands of the West Midlands and Lancashire.Railways were banned by a Parliamentary commission from operating in London itself and the station was built on the northern boundary.Other termini north of London followed at Paddington (1838), Bishopsgate (1840), Fenchurch Street (1841), King's Cross (1852) and St Pancras (1868).