sps1955's photos with the keyword: Great Northern Railway
London - Great Northern Hotel, King's Cross 2014-0…
02 Jun 2015 |
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Built to designs of Lewis Cubitt, 1854. The curved plan reflects the original alignment of Pancras Road. List description: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1113244 .
London - King's Cross station 2014-07-08
02 Jun 2015 |
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The former entrance façade (built 1851-2 to designs of Lewis Cubitt) seen through the vault of the concourse designed by John McAslan, engineered by Arup, and opened in 2012. List description for original building: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1078328 .
London - King's Cross Station, looking S in the W…
02 Jun 2015 |
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Built in 1851-2 for the Great Northern Railway to the designs of Lewis Cubitt. The arches supporting the roof were originally of laminated timber, but were replaced with wrought-iron plate in 1886-7. List description: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1078328 .
London - King's Cross station 2014-06-17
02 Jun 2015 |
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The S front seen from the terrace of St Pancras station. Built 1851-2 for the Great Northern Railway to the designs of Lewis Cubitt, who wrote that "The building will depend for its effect on the largeness of some of the features, its fitness for its purpose and its characteristic expression of that purpose" [Steven Parissien , The English Railway Station (2014), pp.11-12]. List description: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1078328 .
London - King's Cross station, looking N in the W…
13 Jun 2015 |
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Built in 1851-2 for the Great Northern Railway to the designs of Lewis Cubitt. The arches supporting the roof were originally of laminated timber, but were replaced with wrought-iron plate in 1886-7. List description: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1078328 .
I think that a fault had resulted in this half of the station being virtually deserted - the train that I was about to catch usually leaves from one of these platforms, but departed from platform 0, on the east side of the station, to the confusion of people who were expecting to find a different train there.
London - Fish and coal offices, King's Cross 2014-…
30 Aug 2014 |
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Built in 1852 for the Great Northern Railway, with later additions. The description in the Buildings of England: London, 4: North (1998), p.367 suggests that the curving section on the left is the original part, and may have been designed by Lewis Cubitt. Not listed.
Derby: Friargate Arches 2012-12-10
10 Dec 2012 |
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The substructure and parapet of Derby Friargate station, on the Great Northern Railway's line from Nottingham, opened in 1878 and closed to passengers in 1964. The platform-level buildings have been demolished. The line crossed Friar Gate by a bridge on the right. From NE.
Derby: Friar Gate railway bridge 2012-12-10
10 Dec 2012 |
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1878. Built by Andrew Handyside and Co, Ironfounders of Derby, for the Great Northern Railway. The "buck in a park" is the emblem of the borough of Derby. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1216461 .
The netting is apparently intended to prevent pieces of the ironwork falling into the street: www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/5178510034/in/set-7215... .
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