Goods warehouses next to stations

[Titanius Anglesmith]

Greetings all,

 

Can anyone point me towards prototype examples of goods warehouses directly besides a station please?  I'm not well-travelled so the only example I know of (right next to the station) is the one on Buckingham Great Central (as can be seen on the Highland Miscellany blog - https://highlandmiscellany.com/category/buckingham-central/).  Not exactly a prototype, I know.

 

I confess, I'm just looking for an excuse to put an additional goods siding in behind my station, separate from the main goods yard.  It could be railway- or privately-owned.  I haven't got room for a yard alongside the siding so I was going to build a few low-relief sheds or warehouses behind it instead.   I need some real-world inspiration, though.  Can anyone help please?  My layout is based near a river wharf so that may have some bearing on what the sheds are for.

 

Thanks in advance

[Miss Prism]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Moor_Street_1915.jpg

[4630]

The warehouse adjacent to Huddersfield station, which is still extant but no longer used.

 

LNWR/LYR Goods Warehouse at Huddersfield

 

Here’s a more recent view of the former warehouse.

 

Goods Warehouse building at Huddersfield - May 2019

Edited March 11, 2022 by 4630
To add link to a more recent photo.

[Harlequin]

https://www.eastanglianrailwayarchive.co.uk/Railways/Abandoned-Lines-and-Stations/i-P92kBBX/A
 

[phil_sutters]

Burnham-on-Sea - Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway - plan in January 1963 Railway Modeller.

This photo shows a bit of it, but there are several ones showing the station, with better views of the relative positions of the buildings, on the net. The goods shed was adjacent to the passenger platform, which then went under an overall roof, with the passenger buildings beside that. The goods shed road ended in the shed and didn't reach any where near the passenger buildings. The much longer 'excursion' platform ran on the outside of the overall roof on the other side.

Edited March 11, 2022 by phil_sutters

[beaumoc]

if this helps. there is a large goods shed between kidderminster main line and the severn valley railway.

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.3829494,-2.2398608,3a,75y,101.04h,95.9t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sYhyknYd_JFcWfl-nu5NmIw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Edited March 11, 2022 by beaumoc

[Steamport Southport]

Don't forget the small goods yard and goods shed was a countryside thing. I don't think any of my local stations had any goods facilities at the actual station in the traditional sense. But usually had large warehouses nearby.

 

In major towns and cities they were massive. In Liverpool for example all the major companies had several, even companies that had no local railway presence had one such as the GER.

 

Just a few survivors that I know off.

 

Manchester - Great Northern.

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_Warehouse

 

Warrington -  Cheshire Lines (MR/GCR/GNR) - This type was pretty common locally.

 

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3340757

 

Another CLC survivor in Birkenhead

 

 

GWR had a warehouse near Liverpool Pier Head for transporting items to Birkenhead by barge.

 

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3514253

 

Midland Railway - Liverpool 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Conservation_Centre

 

 

Jason

 

[Titanius Anglesmith]

Thank you all for the excellent examples so far! 

[Fat Controller]

On a much smaller scale, Hexham goods shed is adjacent to the Carlisle platform. It's been a store for an agricultural merchants until fairly recently; until the mid 1980s, vans of beet-pulp and fertiliser arrived by rail. There were two further yards; a 'mileage' yard behind the goods shed, and a coal depot on the other side of the station buildings.

[Teabag]

There is a small goods shed next to Wellingborough's platform 1 that has recently been restored allowing passengers to walk through it, which is rather handy as the platform is quite narrow at that point.  Picture before restoration in the link.

 

https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/alanbaxt2-363020/index.cfm

[phil_sutters]

These are a small part of the extensive harbour buildings at Newhaven, Sussex. They offer different options for the purpose of your buildings, even if the style or sizes aren't what is wanted. A marine engineering workshop and a carpenters' workshop and a probably not relevant engine shed.

[Ian Smeeton]

Oakham fits the OP quite well

 

Goods shed and Grain Warehouse immediately adjacent to the platform.

 

The Goods shed, though out of railway use or over 50 years, still has its hand crane inside.

 

https://maps.nls.uk/view/115400171

 

Geograph view here https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4147563

 

Regards

 

Ian

[Rivercider]

The goods shed at Exeter St Davids was directly beside platform 6

46016 passes through St Davids with the goods shed behind platform 6. 9/3/81

 

The goods shed at Barnstaple was right beside the platform. 24/7/80

 

cheers

 

 

[Titanius Anglesmith]

These are all excellent, food for thought! Thank you!

[Phil Bullock]

This one is still standing….

 

Stroud goods shed

[C126]

Cooksbridge?  Sorry, can not find a suitable photograph.

[simon b]

The great Northern had a large one at Farringdon directly behind the station.

 

[Keith Addenbrooke]

Ashburton.

 

(The GWR BLT “Mornington Crescent” answer?)

[Compound2632]

On 11/03/2022 at 13:45, Steamport Southport said:

Midland Railway - Liverpool 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Conservation_Centre

 

 

And that one wasn't even rail connected! The OS 25" map describes it as a "Receiving Warehouse" - there was a Great Central one just a bit further along Hood Street. Goods would be accumulated here before being carted to Brunswick Goods Station.

[phil_sutters]

Seaford had an impressive two storey goods shed facing the station building. It also had a turntable at the end of the platform. These features can be seen in the beautiful scale model, made by members of the the Newhaven and District MRC, which is housed in the Seaford museum, a Martello tower. Has a model railway layout ever been so heavily fortified? Now can I see another thread coming?

The layout would seem to have been made by the same people as the Ventnor and Wroxall layout that the club exhibits regularly. The standard and style of work certainly looks the same. 

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/uploads/monthly_2022_02/1063774836_Ventnoronthe4mmscaleWroxallVentnorlayoutNewhavenDistrictMRC31102015.jpg.3703a1feb13d32f117c698eea1908c41.jpg

Edited March 15, 2022 by phil_sutters

[Steve O.]

On 12/03/2022 at 11:14, simon b said:

The great Northern had a large one at Farringdon directly behind the station.

 

With Morecambe & Wise and James Hunt? 

Edited March 15, 2022 by Steve O.

[jpendle]

The warehouse at Bolton Trinity Street fits the OP.

 

Regards,

 

John P

 

[mdvle]

On 11/03/2022 at 07:32, Titanius Anglesmith said:

Can anyone point me towards prototype examples of goods warehouses directly besides a station please? 

 

I confess, I'm just looking for an excuse to put an additional goods siding in behind my station, separate from the main goods yard. 

 

Not exactly beside but might work better from a space on a layout perspective but Paignton initially had the goods shed on the other platform from the station building.

 

Picture can be found here - https://paigntonhistory.home.blog/2019/11/04/paignton-pictures-for-your-pleasure/

 

(eventually a separate goods yard/shed was built elsewhere and the goods section eventually turned into the passenger station).

[Aire Head]

Depending on how big you want it to be the Midland had a few examples in Yorkshire. At one end of the spectrum you have Bradford Forster Square as shown below.

 

At the other end of the spectrum you have Ingrow (now preserved on the KWVR) as shown below.

 

[Shanghai Diver]

This may have been posted in other threads, but this book, free from Historic England as a PDF, is excellent:

 

The Railway Goods Shed and Warehouse in England