Beautiful railway architecture

[editor]

Allow me to start this thread off with what I think is a near perfect design for a country station, the now closed Rowden Mill Station on the former Bromyard Branch between Leominster and Worcester.

Built in 1984 for the GWR and designed by William Clark.

Rowden Mill Station - Railway Station Cottages

Located in the rolling hills of North Herefordshire, Rowden Mill Station is a restored GWR railway station on the former Leominster / Worcester line. Externally the restoration is done in exacting detail, recreating the look of the station during the latter years of operation and features...

www.railwaystationcottages.co.uk

More famous and iconic stations can be found here The 37 most beautiful train stations in the world

 

[smmudge]

Ouse Valley viaduct





So nice someone is pole dancing underneath?

Sorry I don't have a anything else to say about it!

 

[Bus Honeygun]

It's no Polsloe Bridge, but I do like Barcelona França....

 

[Pickman's model]

toronto's union station. around the walls are the names of places, including moose jaw, which you can't actually get to from the station

you can see the moose of moose jaw on the right hand side of the picture

 

[Pickman's model]

and i liked ventimiglia station, particularly the graffiti in the foreground

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

 

[Pickman's model]

the train station in vladivostok

 

[Pickman's model]

and irkutsk isn't shabby either

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

toronto's union station. around the walls are the names of places, including moose jaw, which you can't actually get to from the station

you can see the moose of moose jaw on the right hand side of the picture

Awful station, people just wandering around, totally lost.

 

[Pickman's model]

Awful station, people just wandering around, totally lost.

i hope you found someone to give you directions while you were there

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

i hope you found someone to give you directions while you were there

Fortunately the airport express leaves from the end that most people enter. Place is a maze.

 

[T & P]

I've always wanted to go to Canfranc station. It still serves as a train station, but the main station building has been turned into a luxury hotel (though to be fair, it had been completely abandoned to the elements for decades and was practically in ruins, so at least it hasn't been lost altogether)

 

[Winot]

Similarly, Tokyo Station Hotel (I’m staying there for a night in May)

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I've always wanted to go to Canfranc station. It still serves as a train station, but the main station building has been turned into a luxury hotel (though to be fair, it had been completely abandoned to the elements for decades and was practically in ruins, so at least it hasn't been lost altogether)

Astonishing building, know some people who held a small rave in it. Something mad about Franco not wanting t change track gauges fucked it, or did I dream that?

 

[T & P]

Astonishing building, know some people who held a small rave in it. Something mad about Franco not wanting t change track gauges fucked it, or did I dream that?

It has a rich and fascinating history, due to a combination of different gauges, international agreements that kept the station open long after it had outlived its commercial usefulness, the Spanish Civil War and WWII, and various other factors. As some point during WWII it was described as the Casablanca of Europe, a kind-of neutral meeting point where spies, Nazi agents and French Resistance operatives helping Jews escape Hitler's grasp would find themselves under the same roof at the same time...

During the Second World War, the station and the surrounding area acquired a reputation as the "Casablanca in the Pyrenees" due to its serving as a key crossing point for goods, as well as being a center of espionage for Nazi and Spanish authorities.[1] Officially neutral Spain had formed an operational agreement with the Wehrmacht, which saw freight trains carrying mined tungsten northwards while French grain, as well as trans-shipped Swiss gold, was borne southwards. Passenger services also continued during the conflict, which provided an escape route into Spain for both Jews and Allied soldiers alike.[3] Aware of these movements, Nazi agents frequently sought to intervene against passengers of interest.[1]

Canfranc International railway station - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Mumbles274]

St Ps

The river under Leeds and the old goods bay

Wagon lift in Huddersfield

 

[Joe Chi Min]

I never knew places like Surrey and Berkshire existed. It’s another country down there.

Anyway my proleteriat arse had to stay here cos some very fit people were running around London on Sunday:

Leatherhead railway station - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

(2nd picture not mine)

 

[editor]

Box Hill & Westhumble is a pleasing country affair

The châteauesque glory of Box Hill railway station - urban75: art, photos, walks

I'm a big fan of Victorian railway architecture, and although a lot of fine vernacular buildings have been senselessly destroyed since the 1960s, it's always heart-warming to find some inspiring examples still standing. A particularly pleasing survivor is the splendid Grade II listed Box Hill &...

www.urban75.org

 

[StoneRoad]

Sadly, this viaduct has been lost - replaced by a modern concrete carbuncle ...

Briwet Bridge / Pont Briwet par StoneRoad2013, on ipernity

 

[T & P]

In a similar fashion as the modern long haul airplanes that provide multiple camera views of the flight for the passengers, it’d be great if train passengers travelling over majestic viaducts and landmark places could see the ground level view of the spot they were going through. There are so many great images of trains travelling through stunning landscapes as photographed by an outside observer, that whilst providing a nice view from the train, don’t look nearly as impressive.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

i'll nominate bromley north as a lesser known station - smallish suburban branch line terminus

larger versions on similar lines used to exist at hastings and still exist at exeter central

architect james robb scott started with the london + south western railway, and designed the 'victory arch' at waterloo post 1919, and the 1930s art deco surbiton station for the southern railway.

 

[Joe Chi Min]

i'll nominate bromley north as a lesser known station - smallish suburban branch line terminus

larger versions on similar lines used to exist at hastings and still exist at exeter central

architect james robb scott started with the london + south western railway, and designed the 'victory arch' at waterloo post 1919, and the 1930s art deco surbiton station for the southern railway.

A Gorbals lad no less

 

[editor]

OK it's the tube but what a beauty

 

[T & P]

As a lovely bit of Victorian brickwork, I must nominate the platform arch walls at North Dulwich station.

I have a particular fond memory of them from many years ago, when I was returning home from an away football game, absolutely shitfaced intending to alight at Tulse Hill. I inevitably fell asleep on the train, woke up at North Dulwich without knowing where I was, and instinctively got off the train. After I established I was just a stop away from my destination, I spent the next twenty minutes admiring the fine brickwork

 

[Puddy_Tat]

the london, chatham + dover railway's crystal palace (high level) station was quite impressive

some of the other stations on the line weren't quite in the same league

 

[Joe Chi Min]

I spent the next twenty minutes admiring the fine brickwork

Hopefully not whilst hurling vomit all over it

 

[T & P]

Hopefully not whilst hurling vomit all over it

No, luckily for all concerned, even when I get completely hammered I never throw up. Not necessarily because of my burning desire not to make a mess at any cost, but because I hate throwing up so much I’ve become quite proficient in preventing myself from performing the reflex my body is begging me to do.

 

[petee]

Allow me to start this thread off with what I think is a near perfect design for a country station, the now closed Rowden Mill Station on the former Bromyard Branch between Leominster and Worcester.

Built in 1984 for the GWR and designed by William Clark.

Rowden Mill Station - Railway Station Cottages

Located in the rolling hills of North Herefordshire, Rowden Mill Station is a restored GWR railway station on the former Leominster / Worcester line. Externally the restoration is done in exacting detail, recreating the look of the station during the latter years of operation and features...

www.railwaystationcottages.co.uk

More famous and iconic stations can be found here The 37 most beautiful train stations in the world

love that deep awning. the recently renovated LIRR stations have shallow awnings, so shallow that I can't imagine what the designers were thinking.

 

[Epona]

I never knew places like Surrey and Berkshire existed. It’s another country down there.

Surrey definitely exists because I grew up there.

Anyway here is a rural station in Surrey!



(Probably doesn't come under the heading of beautiful railway architecture, nice telephone box though!)

 

[SpookyFrank]

Meldon viaduct, Dartmoor. An extraordinary feat of engineering that never actually went anywhere. The train line only got another mile or so past this point then ended at Lydford, which is barely a place at all.

In another universe Brunel's coastal line never worked and this bridge now carries the only train line from the rest of the UK to Plymouth and Cornwall.