The beautiful stations of rail's golden age [BBC News Magazine]





Date: 24/09/2015

After a long gap, train stations are being built again. But once upon a time there were some very lovely stations indeed. In the week when Birmingham's main station reopened after a £750m makeover, the National Railway Museum in York is using its latest exhibition to celebrate the architectural styles from the past that helped create 'destination stations' across the UK. [From various contributors]


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The beautiful stations of rail's golden age
Design for Manchester's Piccadilly Station, early 1960s

How railway companies used station architecture to make travel by train more desirable.