Railway Architecture by Bill Fawcett

Author:Bill Fawcett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Railway Architecture
ISBN: 9781784420475
Publisher: Osprey Publishing

Paddington departure platform: print by Francis Hall after W. P. Frith. The original painting (1862) is the vehicle for a series of cameos but accurately portrays the trainshed and conveys the popular perception of rail travel at the time.

St Pancras station (1868) was a prestige project for the Derby-based Midland Railway. It had extended its main line to London, so that the lucrative coal traffic to the capital would no longer share other companies’ crowded tracks, and the new station had to herald its arrival. The line came in above street level, so company engineer William Barlow devised a shed with a single span of 75 metres, tied below the tracks, the space underneath being organised as a store for the Burton beer traffic. The trainshed is lofty as well as broad, and very sturdy, with a sequence of closely spaced lattice arches; light streams in through a broad band of ridge-and-furrow glazing. In front stands the hotel, a commission won in competition by Sir George Gilbert Scott, the most popular exponent of the Gothic Revival. Some years elapsed before work began on the hotel, the bulk of which opened in 1873, but the outcome is magnificent.

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