Building Name

Passenger Railway Station, Accrington

Date
1848
District/Town
Accrington
County/Country
Lancashire, England
Client
East Lancashire Railway Company
Work
New build
Status
Demolished

 

Just above the town of Accrington stands a long and handsome edifice for the principal station office, etc. It is built of the hard white stone of the neighbourhood; and contains, besides booking offices, first and second-class ladies’ and gentlemen’s waiting rooms etc, a spacious refreshment room; the end nearest Manchester is a station office for the Electric Telegraph Company, and the small room at the other end is a lamp house, etc. The front of the edifice next the line is of one storey, from its centre rises a small clock tower … illegible …. Next the town one half the front consists of two ** with garden, for the superintendent’s residence, the other half is approached by an elevated esplanade for carriages, on a level with the station ground, and entering the booking offices, which are on the upper floor. The whole building is at once convenient and elegant, and well-adapted to the growing traffic of this part of the line. [Manchester Guardian 28 July 1849 page 9]