Re-use of old railway buildings

[melmerby]

Sadly it was closed with a For Sale sign when I passed there on my way to the M6 a few weeks ago.   I don't know if it closed permanently  or if I passed on a "rest" day!

 

David

I'll tell you after Monday as I will be passing then.

(A week after as that's when I'm back to a computer!)

 

Although this seems to tell all:

http://www.briefencounterlangwathby.co.uk/

 

The old goods shed there is used by a poultry transport firm

You can just see it behind the bungalow:

http://goo.gl/maps/Wlz1K

 

and again (it looks in good condition and seems to be pretty intact:

http://goo.gl/maps/Tb8Zq

 

Keith

[melmerby]

More on the S&C.

Lazonby down side building is used by Bells the Bakery as offices:

 

http://goo.gl/maps/bEv6u

 

Armathwaite is a private house:

 

http://goo.gl/maps/Waf8s

 

And in Carlisle the old Maryport and Carlisle Goods depot (still with it's name on the side!) is this:

 

http://goo.gl/maps/EUKBr

 

Keith

[Poor Old Bruce]

Widmerpool station between Nottingham and Melton Mowbray used to be a restaurant, don't know if it still is.

 

The original station building at Rowsley is now part of the 'Peak Shopping Village'

[Mallard60022]

Widmerpool station between Nottingham and Melton Mowbray used to be a restaurant, don't know if it still is.

 

The original station building at Rowsley is now part of the 'Peak Shopping Village'

Widmerpool was the station before Plumtree I think!

Try searching it. It's a pub now by the looks of it.

P

[Katier]

At least two of thé stations on thé old GWR line through tettenhall in wolverhampton, still survive, despite them closing over 80 years ago. Two station buildings are now cafes, and Tettenhall station itself has a full complement of buildings.

[Steven B]

The old Leeds Holbeck Roundhouse is now home to a van hire company whilst the half round house on the same site now sells wine.

 

 

Happy modelling.

 

Steven B.

[bigherb]

Kentish Town MPD

 

[Judge Dread]

Dairycoates shed in Hull (53A) is now owned by a haulage company. I'm been in it and although the turntables have gone most of the track still exists. 

[Oldddudders]

Not sure I'm quite addressing the OP, but I would like to mention the South Eastern Railway goods shed at Staplehurst, Kent.

 

This had survived long enough to be redundant, and the BR Property Board rented it out. To Graham Farish. It was the factory for a number of years until they moved rather westward. Then, or some time after Holton Heath had arrived on the model railway landscape, it was rented to a chap called Rodney. Rodney was - maybe still is - a thoroughly decent chap who sold animal feeds. When you have lots of bags of feed, stored in a Victorian wooden structure, you get vermin. So Rodney had cats - some of the biggest moggies known to man in fact, after all, food was not in short supply. They would meander the 20 yards to the booking hall and stake the place out, sitting on any commuter's lap that was offered, and not a few that weren't. Moulting cats may not always improve your sartorial elegance for the office.

 

When NSE rebuilt the station in the late '80s, nothing changed. But times do. And Privatisation brought about a new attitude. So about 15 years ago the goods shed got it, as they say. Demolished, like. Railtrack Property wished to get a mini-supermarket on the site - loadsa rent! They were unaware that one of Staplehurst's commuters was a chap called Tom Winsor, then Rail Regulator. A thumb was placed in their optic, and when I last looked a year or two back the site was still car parking.

 

Gone but not forgotten, even in France!

[Godfrey Glyn]

Chard Town was my local station as a teenager; afraid I rarely used it as the service it provided to Taunton was somewhat slow! Still a good place to put the old penny on the line and get it flattened. Lovely old building and now in use as a discount store. The manager very kindly let me take some photographs and measurements - they remain in the intray of 'things to do' - but I think it would make a lovely model.

Godfrey

 

[Fat Controller]

Not sure I'm quite addressing the OP, but I would like to mention the South Eastern Railway goods shed at Staplehurst, Kent.

 

This had survived long enough to be redundant, and the BR Property Board rented it out. To Graham Farish. It was the factory for a number of years until they moved rather westward. Then, or some time after Holton Heath had arrived on the model railway landscape, it was rented to a chap called Rodney. Rodney was - maybe still is - a thoroughly decent chap who sold animal feeds. When you have lots of bags of feed, stored in a Victorian wooden structure, you get vermin. So Rodney had cats - some of the biggest moggies known to man in fact, after all, food was not in short supply. They would meander the 20 yards to the booking hall and stake the place out, sitting on any commuter's lap that was offered, and not a few that weren't. Moulting cats may not always improve your sartorial elegance for the office.

 

When NSE rebuilt the station in the late '80s, nothing changed. But times do. And Privatisation brought about a new attitude. So about 15 years ago the goods shed got it, as they say. Demolished, like. Railtrack Property wished to get a mini-supermarket on the site - loadsa rent! They were unaware that one of Staplehurst's commuters was a chap called Tom Winsor, then Rail Regulator. A thumb was placed in their optic, and when I last looked a year or two back the site was still car parking.

 

Gone but not forgotten, even in France!

The building still had 'Graham Farish' on the roof, when we moved to Kent in 1992.

[melmerby]

There is the splendid station building at Keswick, still more or less intact.

It was always intrinsically linked to the adjacent Hotel and since the railway went is AFAIK being used by the Hotel.

 

Station:

http://goo.gl/maps/NWqZp

 

Panorama with Hotel:

http://goo.gl/maps/moXme

 

Another on the CK&P

 

Rakefoot Crossing Keepers Cottage:

http://goo.gl/maps/QIOPd

 

(The road - A66 - is where the railway was!)

And here:

http://goo.gl/maps/eUcLL

 

Where once Cauliflowers chugged, HGVs rumble.

 

Keith

[Mallard60022]

Hope this thread keeps going for a while as it is providing loads of entertainment. Keswick looks lovely. The local area might even get a visit and stay over out of me after seeing this.

P

[roundhouse]

Chard Town was my local station as a teenager; afraid I rarely used it as the service it provided to Taunton was somewhat slow! Still a good place to put the old penny on the line and get it flattened. Lovely old building and now in use as a discount store. The manager very kindly let me take some photographs and measurements - they remain in the intray of 'things to do' - but I think it would make a lovely model.

Godfrey

That's a big improvement since we last visited about ten years ago when it was a garage.

 

The goods shed in Horley on the Brighton mainline has been a Factory Shop for some years now

[James Harrison]

The GN/ GC goods warehouse at Lincoln Holmes Yard is now the University library (I've seen mentioned earlier in the thread that the adjacent loco shed is now the Student Union building). 

[Catkins]

Stamford East has already been mentioned, and the main station building is now a retirement home.

 

Stamford Midland is still in use as a station, but half of the building is now used by Robert Humm Transport Books - Robert also owns, and had moved closer to the station, the old Midland Signal box, he uses it for extra storage space.

 

If you go from Stamford to Essendine, cross the ECML and go to Bourne, IIRC Rhyhall & Belmesthorpe station is now a private dwelling, the station buildings at Essendine have been demolished, but the railway cottages at the top of the drive still exist. I don't know if Braceborough Spa station is in good order, but nearly twenty years ago, it was a private house. Thurlby station is home to a Lincolnshire County Council highways yard, and it seems that the top of the platform face is still visible -

Getting into Bourne, the old goods shed at the station is still extant, having been used as a grain store and latterly a children's nursery, and the old 'Sleaford & Bourn Rly' goods shed is still in place having been a stable block and latterly a builders merchants.

 

Heading north out of Bourne, the only two buildings I can recall existing and re-used are Morton Station, which now a house, and Rippingale station which is in private ownership - and twenty years ago was owned by a member of the Rutland Railway Museum, and he was trying to start his own private preservation site.

 

 

I will have to go round some of my old stamping grounds again!

[Oldddudders]

These days, I think it has reverted to being a rather superior private dwelling, but Singleton (Sussex) spent a number of years as the centre of a vineyard, which is how I managed to find myself standing on the platform about 50 years after the last passenger train had left. As the link below makes clear, it was a simply outrageous station in the middle of lush countryside, on a single line - yet had 2 signalboxes, 4 platforms and sumptuous facilities for both trains and patrons. It closed in 1935.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singleton_(West_Sussex)_railway_station

 

The architecture is effectively the same design as the Bluebell stations, being one of nearly 20 by T.H.Myres, of Preston, Lancs. It appears that Myres prepared a general arrangement, and this was interpreted in different ways by the multiple contractors building them for the LBSCR, mainly according to the site on offer.

[Mallard60022]

These days, I think it has reverted to being a rather superior private dwelling, but Singleton (Sussex) spent a number of years as the centre of a vineyard, which is how I managed to find myself standing on the platform about 50 years after the last passenger train had left. As the link below makes clear, it was a simply outrageous station in the middle of lush countryside, on a single line - yet had 2 signalboxes, 4 platforms and sumptuous facilities for both trains and patrons. It closed in 1935.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singleton_(West_Sussex)_railway_station

 

The architecture is effectively the same design as the Bluebell stations, being one of nearly 20 by T.H.Myres, of Preston, Lancs. It appears that Myres prepared a general arrangement, and this was interpreted in different ways by the multiple contractors building them for the LBSCR, mainly according to the site on offer.

I think it was used by the moneyed to get to Goodwood races.

At least you went to it, whereas I must have driven past it many times whilst commuting from Epsom to Chi and never took a look.

Phil

[Catkins]

Update to my previous posting, specifically regarding the old goods shed in Bourne -

 

I drove past the site this lunchtime, and was shocked to see that it had gone!

[eastwestdivide]

Couple of Indian restaurants in station buildings on "live" lines round this way: Rotherham Masborough is the Orient Express, and Dore is now the Rajdhani, after being refurbished/redone this year. I've not tried either.

Both names play to their rail heritage, the first being fairly obvious, and the Rajdhani Express is (I just discovered) a series of named trains in India, translating as "Capital Express"

(http://www.indianrail.gov.in/rajdhani_trn_list.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajdhani_Express )

[Steven B]

The former Kirk Michael station on the Isle of Man is now a fire station:

http://www.iomfire.co.uk/kirk%20michael%20station.htm

 

http://goo.gl/HIoOPW

 

 

The Midland Railway's Grain and Goods warehouse in Bingley is still standing.

http://goo.gl/yBZBb5

It's now used by a supplier of polythene (http://www.dereklambert.co.uk).

 

 

Happy modelling.

 

Steven B.

[melmerby]

On the subject of Langwathby station building:

 

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/commercial-property-for-sale/property-38101981.html

 

Any offers?

 

Keith

 

EDIT: it's all that you can see in the picture plus a garage building which I think was used for wedding hire cars.

[Captain Kernow]

Here are some images of the old station building at Hele & Bradninch (between Exeter and Cullompton), which I visited in an official capacity last week. It has recently been taken on by a local community group, with the eventual aim of restoring it as a local museum. There is still much work to be done, but in fairness, the group are now seeking heritage type funding for the capital work:

 

 

 

 

 

Opposite the station building, the old goods shed, plus the old weighbridge office, are still in use. The goods shed is now a local garage, whilst another business operates out of the characterful old brick buildings at the back, which include the former weighbridge office:

 

 

 

 

 

The bricked area on the goods shed wall represents where the former Up side station building used to stand:

 

[Caledonian]

A fairly bizarre example is Jesmond Station in Newcastle upon Tyne. This was an NER suburban station on the North Tyne Loop until rendered redundant by the building of the Tyne&Wear Metro. It then became and still is a pub, named with stunning originality The Station. Externally its pretty much as built apart from a fairly ugly brick extension to the north, and as the railway line still runs through [not for passenger traffic] it still sits on the down platform and faces the up platform on the other side.

 

All well and good, but then it was extended southwards by means of bolting on a lovely teak Gresley [No.397 originally built as a family saloon as I recall] and then some time later extending it even further by building a faux signal box, with an Indian restaurant in the cabin and the kitchen below in what would ordinarily be the locking room. At pretty much the same time the teak finish of 397 was over-painted in a stunning act of vandalism

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x487e70c5731cfe6b:0x8c1c0a2282995e0e!2m5!2m2!1i80!2i80!3m1!2i100!3m1!7e1!4shttps://plus.google.com/11

[Oldddudders]

A fairly bizarre example is Jesmond Station in Newcastle upon Tyne. This was an NER suburban station on the North Tyne Loop until rendered redundant by the building of the Tyne&Wear Metro. It then became and still is a pub, named with stunning originality The Station. Externally its pretty much as built apart from a fairly ugly brick extension to the north, and as the railway line still runs through [not for passenger traffic] it still sits on the down platform and faces the up platform on the other side.

 

All well and good, but then it was extended southwards by means of bolting on a lovely teak Gresley [No.397 originally built as a family saloon as I recall] and then some time later extending it even further by building a faux signal box, with an Indian restaurant in the cabin and the kitchen below in what would ordinarily be the locking room. At pretty much the same time the teak finish of 397 was over-painted in a stunning act of vandalism

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x487e70c5731cfe6b:0x8c1c0a2282995e0e!2m5!2m2!1i80!2i80!3m1!2i100!3m1!7e1!4shttps://plus.google.com/11

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