Volunteers turned a major London train station into a homeless shelter for Christmas by Kieran Corcoran on Dec 25, 2017, 6:54 AM Advertisement
 Volunteers have transformed one of London's busiest train stations into a homeless shelter on Christmas Day, where people with nowhere else to go can get a warm, festive meal. Dozens of people gave up their Christmas Day to turn Euston station, a major terminus which connects the capital with Scotland and the Midlands, into shelter for around 200 homeless people. Christmas is the only day of the year where no trains at all run from Euston, which is also a major interchange on the London Underground. Since it was due to be empty, owners Network Rail allowed Steve Naybour, one of their their engineers, to organise a massive charity effort, which saw the concourse transformed. Scroll on to take a look: Euston station is the fifth busiest in the UK, and is usually rammed with travellers. 
But Christmas is the one day of the year where no trains at all come or go. So staff and volunteers decided to turn it into a shelter for the homeless.
They stayed up on Christmas Eve to get everything ready. This tweet was posted at 5.25 a.m.
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