Elevated urban terminus?

[Del]

Some time ago (by which I mean well over ten years), there was a layout in the Railway Modeller of an urban terminus up on arches, where the buffer stops were hard up against a neighbouring building, and pedestrian access from street level was via internal staircases. I think this model was based in Newcastle?

I'm trying to think of a prototypical example, and I'm struggling!

Any ideas?

Edited February 25, 2018 by Del

[Guest]

Ian Futers' Newcastle Haymarket? Pretty sure it was entirely fictitious, but I guess the inspiration must have come from somewhere.

Edited February 25, 2018 by Pete 75C

[johnb]

Fenchurch Street??

[Del]

Ian Futers' Newcastle Haymarket? Pretty sure it was entirely fictitious, but I guess the inspiration must have come from somewhere.

That's almost certainly the one.

 

Fenchurch Street??

That terminates within the building itself though and is a bit grand for what I have in mind. I need a branch, really...

[Marshall5]

What about Uxbridge High St.? http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/u/uxbridge_high_street/

Ray.

[Zomboid]

Wasn't the original Hounslow West elevated?

[colin penfold]

By way of inspiration you could do worse than Inkerman Street. It was in MRJ - I'm sure a quick Google would produce results.

[Moxy]

Bolton Great Moor Street was another elevated station http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/b/bolton_great_moor_street/index.shtml

[runs as required]

For the ultimate in elevated termini surely nothing beats the Rossio station in Lisbon.

It is on the roof of a 3 storey elaborate C19 white marble palace in one corner of the great square of the same name. Once up the escalators you arrive in a airy light cast iron  train shed. Only later do you later realise it is dramatically sited on very the edge of a steep drop from the higher to the lower city, with a whole array of eccentric Eifel lifts and funiculars to transport people between the two levels of the city.

 

You might model an Anglicized Classical or Gothic version of it in Halifax or maybe even here on Tyneside - as a more precipitous siting of the Manors terminus ovelooking the Quayside.

 

(A far more boring one was the French chateau style Broadstreet terminus of the North London Railway on blue brick arches way above the west side of Liverpool St)

 

dh

[Flying Pig]

Bolton Great Moor Street was another elevated station http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/b/bolton_great_moor_street/index.shtml

There used to be an 0 gauge exhibition layout that I think drew heavily on Great Moor Street. Can anyone remember what was called?

[Coach bogie]

Manchester Mayfield Street

 

Mike Wiltshire

 

And Manchester Oldham Road

Edited February 26, 2018 by Coach bogie

[Bedders]

North Shields by Chris Pendleton was (is?) a lovely example of the type 

[Ray M]

Taken 26-9-09

I can`t remember where though.

[JohnR]

There used to be an 0 gauge exhibition layout that I think drew heavily on Great Moor Street. Can anyone remember what was called?

 

Platt Lane by Trevor Booth? I think he did a series of Silverlink books on the build?

[DY444]

Wasn't the original Hounslow West elevated?

 

It was at surface level but not elevated in the sense of being on a viaduct. 

[Flying Pig]

Platt Lane by Trevor Booth? I think he did a series of Silverlink books on the build?

Doesn't ring a bell but you could well be right.

[Joseph_Pestell]

I'm surprised that CJL has not yet been on this thread to suggest Staines West. But that does have the building in the conventional place for a terminus even though the building pre-existed the railway..

 

Windsor & Eton GW is partly on viaduct.

 

One that does qualify is the Midland station in Northampton.

 

Noting also that you say "elevated" rather than on a viaduct, some others would certainly qualify such as Helston which is partly on an embankment.

 

Often, where a terminus is on a viaduct/embankment but with the building to one side, there was an intention to extend the line at a later date, e.g. Chingford.

Edited February 26, 2018 by Joseph_Pestell

[Joseph_Pestell]

Wasn't the original Hounslow West elevated?

 

I think you mean the original District terminus in Hounslow which was superseded when the line was extended (1927?) to Hounslow West.

[Zomboid]

Probably, I'm sure there was an elevated terminus in Hounslow at some point.

 

The platforms were up some stairs from the street at Cowes, too. Though that's a bit of an oddity.

[meil]

Northampton St. John's Street - full series of articles in the Model Railway Constructor.

 

Also here: https://lifeandtherailway.yolasite.com/st-johns-street-station.php

Edited February 26, 2018 by meil

[Del]

Thanks for all the answers so far.

Ray's photo confirms that Newcastle Haymarket is the layout I was thinking of.

Uxbridge High Street seems to be closest to what I'm thinking of, rather than the bigger stations where the passenger access into the station building seems to be at ground level.

Edited February 26, 2018 by Del

[Coppercap]

Unlike Uxbridge High Street station which actually didn't have it's platforms right up to the road (it had a couple of bridges beyond the end of the platform before arriving the buffers), Hounslow Town did (the intention, which never came about, was to continue on towards Twickenham).  It was located where the Bus Station is now:

 

Also, Hounslow Town station was in a rather more urban location than was Uxbridge High Street station at that time, which was right on the edge of town (and there's another girder bridge across the road in the foreground, out of shot to the right):

[Coppercap]

I think you mean the original District terminus in Hounslow which was superseded when the line was extended (1927?) to Hounslow West.

 

Hounslow West (opened as Hounslow Barracks) opened in 1884...

[Coppercap]

Wasn't the original Hounslow West elevated?

 

No, the tracks were slightly below ground level. There was a short flight of steps up from the platform to the main station building (I think they are still there, and could be seen through a window in the tin walkway to the new 'underground' platforms).

[Clive Mortimore]

St Pancras (before becoming international), Cannon St, St Pauls (Blackfriars), Charring Cross, Broad St, Hammersmith (Met and City Line) and that is not moving out of London.

 

Glasgow Central, Leeds Central also come to mind.