Building Name

Station Buildings: Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway

Date
1849
District/Town
NUL
County/Country
GMCA, England
Work
New build

Particular attention has been paid to the arrangement and construction of the permanent stations now in course of erection on this line. They are commodious, provided with coal staiths of excellent design, proper landing places for goods, cattle, etc., where required, and ample convenience for the passengers travelling along the line. The stations have been arranged by Mr Jee, and the buildings are, we believe, designed and superintended by Messrs Weightman and Hadfield. The two styles of architecture best suited for such buildings, the Italian and the Old English, have been adopted throughout; the former in the hilly and more rural districts, the latter for the towns and manufacturing localities. The stations at Ashton and Stalybridge are particularly commodious, and well suited to the immense traffic for which they will be required, and they will be ready to open with the branch. The Glossop station is finished, and has been universally admired for its good proportions and perfect convenience. It adds another to the public structures which have so rapidly appeared in the rising town of Glossop, and which are indisputable and gratifying evidence of the liberal measures by which the noble owner of the soil ensures the welfare of that flourishing district. [Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 12 July 1845]

Opened in 1845, a branch from the main line of the Sheffield Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway at Dinting to Glossop was built privately at the expense of the Duke of Norfolk. Glossop railway station (listed Grade II) was designed by Weightman and Hadfield.

Reference    Manchester Guardian 18 July 1849 page 6
Reference    Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 12 July 1845