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Could you say it became part of LMS at Grouping in 1923 please. Do you want typos noted e.g. there are 3 here -
1845 joined for joint
1960 late for lat
1992 undercroft as one word
I'm a natural pedant but this will be a brilliant web site in time and so is worth making as perfect as possible.
Posted by Martin Robertson, Friday, March 2, 2012.
What a super site this is and should grow into. Good, clean layout, excellent reproduction quality and from what I can see well informed.
The country is littered with railway infrastructure both operative and redundant. So often it is built to a very high standard, using high quality materials and often designed by legends of the Victorian era.
I look forward to seeing the database grow. I do hope the archives of the big four and BR are as intact as they should be. Good luck.
Posted by Elliot Atkinson, Friday, March 2, 2012.
What a great shame that people in the planning department think that modern buildings added onto such buildings as Manchester London Road station and other such buildings of beauty looks good is beond me, just look at the drawing as above. Surely something in keeping with whats already there would be more appropriate.
Posted by Bigowle, Thursday, March 1, 2012.
I think Eastern Region boundary was the Woodhead Tunnel. All the station signs at London Rd and stations to Woodhead were in the maroon colours of London Midland Region.
Posted by John Lawson, Friday, April 6, 2012.
A great start to a website. Maybe it could include links to old photos as well - eg http://ickleweb.com/?p=830 , or better still plans of the old offices at London Rd.
I recall the MSJA electric trains stopping at buffer stops, rather than a through junction, which was reinstated when the line to Oxford Rd was converted to 25kv.
Posted by John Lawson, Friday, April 6, 2012.
The under croft is used by more than Metro Link. Its usage includes staff carpark, retail store rooms, retail delivery area, taxi rank and drop-pick up area and short stay carpark. In short it is a busy if mainly hidden part of the station. Please do give this area the credit that is due to it.
Posted by Chris Gallagher, Friday, January 11, 2013.
Good story but there are some mistakes. The Eastern Region of BR was just that - ER, not London Eastern Region - LER. The South Junction platforms survived until 1960 when they were demolished as part of the 25kV modernisation work. The bridge which supports platforms 13/14 is a remarkable design in itself, being a pre-stressed concrete cantilever quite delicately balanced. The unusual means of support is clear from Fairfield Street below. This could not possibly be an 1880s construction!
Posted by Jack Haythornthwaite, Tuesday, August 7, 2012.
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