Hebden Bridge station (and other lovely railway stations)
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That is fucking ACE!Shrewsbury doesn't just have a lovely junction box...
from the platform:
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Interesting style of building. It looks quite collegiate to me.
quimcunx
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It was designed by Thomas Mainwaring Penson, who you would perhaps know more about than I. It is indeed Collegiate.
Along with other stations TM Penson also designed Gobowen station. That, however, was in the Florentine Italianate style.
When approaching Shrewsbury I noticed a signal box but thought it different from the one I remembered you posting here. Then, as I was gathering my belongings I saw the more familiar Severn Bridge junction box you posted. The first was the Abbey Foregate one, I think. Would the building I photographed from the platform be another junction box or something else?
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hiraethified
*adjusts spoddy glasses.
The original Shrewsbury station was built by T K Penson in 1848 (substantially rebuilt in part-facsimile in 1903) but the style is described as scholastic Jacobean (it's said to have been influenced by nearby Shrewsbury School).
The rebuilding was rather odd too, with the earth dug up to create a new ground floor underneath the existing building.
quimcunx
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According to my sources although there was confusion as to which of the Penson dynasty of architects, surveyors and engineers designed Shrewsbury station, a sketch and precise details of the station confirming T M Penson, whilst working under Henry Robertson, as the architect was published in the Hereford Times on 22nd May 1855.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Due to the low quality of your photograph it may take a little while to provide you with an answer. I will get back to you on this.
quimcunx
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Its Shrewsbury Crewe Junction box ....
The big un is at the south end of the station
Do you mean the building in my pic is Shrewsbury Crewe? I know it's not the bigun, I saw it when entering from the south and recognised it from the pic earlier in the thread, after some initial confusion over the Abbey Foregate one. I just didn't know if the building I photographed was a junction box or signal box or what.
I'm not a train spod, myself. I'm just being nice to those who are by taking pics of stations I think they might like when the opportunity arises.
It's nice to be nice.
quimcunx
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I was going to apologise for the quality of the photographs, that one in particular. My phone was running out of battery at that point and i couldn't let it go completely flat as my ticket was on it. Anyway it would appear it is the Shrewsbury Crewe Junction box, according to davesgcr.
johnnymarrsbars
www.friendrock.co.uk
the 'station' at my hometown, Failsworth
quimcunx
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I'm sure I had some rather ineptly taken ones of Sheffield too, but I can't find them, just some ineptly taken photos of the public art outside, which is rather nice too.
Nice station, Johnny. From the Brutalised school of architecture?
I'm sure I had some rather ineptly taken ones of Sheffield too, but I can't find them, just some ineptly taken photos of the public art outside, which is rather nice too.
Nice station, Johnny. From the Brutalised school of architecture?
There's a big row about Sheffield, apparently. The train operating companies want to block off the concourse with ticket barriers, which is apparently the main pedestrian route across town for people not catching trains.
yeah i could see how that would fuck people off. quick access over to the tram stop and that big brutalist estate (park hill?) is through the station
You changed trains at Hebden Bridge??
It's only on one route, isn't it? Manchester-Leeds.
So, you got off and waited for the train behind, or what?
oneflewover
Following "The Tigers"
Between Manchester Piccadilly and Huddersfield. Can be part of a pub crawl, Leeds Scarborough Tap, Dewsbury, Hudderfield and Stalybridge and finish at Bulls Head Manchester.
You changed trains at Hebden Bridge??
It's only on one route, isn't it? Manchester-Leeds.
So, you got off and waited for the train behind, or what?
Can change for direct to Dewsbury or on the Blackpool - Leeds, or if on a fast one intermediate stations. A very imprtant interchange and a nice cafe!
eoin_k
Lawyer's fees, beetroot and music
Between Manchester and the Peak District. The buffet is a fully functioning public house with a fine selection of real ale.
You changed trains at Hebden Bridge??
It's only on one route, isn't it? Manchester-Leeds.
So, you got off and waited for the train behind, or what?
Well I had to go to Bradford. At first I'd planned to go over from Picadilly via Huddersfield to Leeds then onto Bradford. However, I found out that it was quicker to walk from Piccadilly to Victoria and go direct to Bradford Interchange. However I missed the direct train from Victoria so I got one 5min later that goes from Victoria to Leeds via Todmorden and Hebden Bridge (but not Bradford). Got off at HB and waited for 10mins for a local train to take me to Bradford. Around Todmorden there's a three way line coming in from Manc, Yorks and possibly Burnely (?) so HB is just before an interchange.
(Actually I did walk a bit slower to Victoria because after reading this thread I secretly wanted to have to get out at Hebden Bridge.)
Wacky Racer
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I don't think anywhere on the Settle and Carlisle line has been mentioned yet, which is something of an omission. I traveled along it yesterday, on the way back down from Scotland, and very beautiful it was too, on a bright, frosty morning. All of the intermediate stations are built as variations on a standard design, and most of them have been well renovated since the line almost fell into disuse in the 70s and 80s. Some of the buildings are now (at least partly) private houses.
I stopped off at Ribblehead (near to the famous viaduct). The station is very well kept, as well as being in quite a stunning location. Part of it homes a museum run by The Settle-Carlisle Railway Trust. The rest of it is a private home, one of the residents of which very kindly agreed to look after my luggage for a few hours while I went for a walk nearby.
It also has an enclosed waiting room, which was welcome whilst waiting for an onward train on a rather cold evening:
There is even a resident ginger cat, slightly tubby and very friendly as all good station cats should be.
Errr, I think you mean THIS cat.........
Wacky Racer
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Hi, Thanks for the friendly welcome,
Yep, sorry for the over large image , I'm just feeling my way round this site, having just discovered it yesterday...The cat was quite docile, it sat on my knee for five minutes whilst I stroked it....lol!
More images from my day out here:-
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=210&t=844401&nmt=Steam
Regarding Hebden Bridge station, knows it well, as I only live twenty minutes away......
Cheers.
