Manchester Liverpool Road Railway Station
| Manchester Liverpool Road | |
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 Exterior view of the train station (2008)
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| Data | |
| Design | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| opening | September 15, 1830 |
| Conveyance | 1975 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Manchester |
| Metropolitan Borough | City of Manchester |
| Part of the country | England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 28 '38 " N , 2 ° 15' 30" W |
| Railway lines | |
| List of train stations in the United Kingdom | |
The Manchester Liverpool Road station was the terminus of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L & MR) in Manchester , England . It was opened on September 15, 1830. The station building is considered to be the oldest still preserved in the world. It is an under today monument standing cultural monument .
meaning
The station served as the end point of the route coming from Liverpool , on which a scheduled rail connection was offered as the first worldwide , in which exclusively steam locomotives were used.
However, the station for passenger traffic was closed again on May 4, 1844, when a connection to the Manchester and Leeds Railway was created. It is also one of the stations that was the first to lose its passenger traffic. The facility served freight traffic until 1975 , when it was abandoned as a train station and used for the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester . Since then, Earlestown station in Earlestown (Newton-le-Willows) on the Liverpool – Earlestown – Manchester line , which was also opened on September 15, 1830, is the oldest still operating station in the world.
building
Storage buildings for freight traffic were erected along the entrance tracks of the station . In contrast, passenger transport was initially treated as secondary. The railway company bought an existing building for the station agent on the corner of Liverpool Road and Water Street. It was a brick building attached, which was however faced with demanding Baudekoration so that it like dry stone looked erected. The fact that a train station was a completely new construction task with which there was no experience was shown, among other things, by the fact that the supports for the platform roof were so close to the platform edge that the doors of the passenger cars could not be fully opened at these points .
The building was expanded as early as 1831. Among other things, shops were built, but due to the environment they turned out to be not rentable and were used as offices. A ramp was also built on which carriages of travelers could drive to the trains , where they could be loaded onto flat cars, a common form of travel for those who could afford it.
"Boarding"
A series of horse-drawn bus lines connected the city center with the train station. The railway company offered the first and second class of cars . A separate ticket office has been set up for each of them . The handwritten tickets had to be exchanged for a voucher, comparable to a boarding pass , with an employee . The clerk transferred the data from the ticket to a list. This passenger list was given to the conductor before the train left. Travelers now went to the first floor, where the waiting rooms were separated according to carriage classes . For this route there were porters who - against payment - took care of the luggage .
When a bell rang, the doors from the waiting rooms to the platform were also released for travelers, who were now allowed to board the cars . There were more porters on the platform . They were responsible for securing the luggage on the car roofs. Before departure, the bell was rung again, but the signal that the train driver had to leave was given with a trumpet or horn signal . The bell is preserved in the building.
traffic
In 1830 traffic between Manchester and Liverpool began. The rapid expansion of the British railway network made it possible to offer through trains to Birmingham from 1837 and from September 17, 1838 through coaches to London . Due to the increase in long-distance traffic , the first (private) station hotel opened opposite the station. The increasing traffic also made it necessary to separate outgoing and incoming traffic and to build a separate station for incoming trains on the other side of Water Street. This expansion also only provided a short-term remedy, and so all passenger traffic was directed to the new Victoria Station from May 4, 1844 .
Liverpool Road station - now owned by the London and North Western Railway - has been converted into a freight yard and various warehouses in its neighborhood have been connected. This freight yard came to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway through the reorganization of the British railway system through the Railways Act 1921 , but was also used by the Great Western Railway . In 1948 the station was taken over by British Railways (BR).
After the shutdown
After the station was closed in 1975, the systems were bought by Granada Television and used, among other things, as a backdrop for the filming of the series Coronation Street - the model for Lindenstrasse . Today it houses the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester .
literature
- RVJ Butt: The Directory of Railway Stations. Details every Public and Private Passenger Station, Halt, Platform and Stopping Place, past and present. Stephens, Sparkford 1995, ISBN 1-85260-508-1 .
- Frank Ferneyhough: Liverpool & Manchester Railway. 1830-1980. Hale, London 1980, ISBN 0-7091-8137-X .
- Geoffrey O. Holt: The North West (= A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Vol. 10). David & Charles, Newton Abbot et al. 1978, ISBN 0-7153-7521-0 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Butt: The Directory of Railway Stations. 1995, p. 153.
- ^ History of the Museum . Museum of Science and Industry. Retrieved January 22, 2008.
- ↑ Heritage Gateway: Former Liverpool Road Railway Station, and Station Master's House
- ^ Butt: The Directory of Railway Stations. 1995, p. 152.
- ↑ http://www.msim.org.uk/uploadedDocs/Document_Depository_01/Liverpool%20Road%20Station.pdf
- ^ Butt: The Directory of Railway Stations. 1995.
- ^ Ferneyhough: Liverpool & Manchester Railway. 1980, p. 132.
- ↑ Holt: The North West. 1978, p. 109.
- ^ Ferneyhough: Liverpool & Manchester Railway. 1980, pp. 103-105.
- ↑ Holt: The North West. 1978, p. 240.