Search Results

Wonderland was conveniently situated next to the railway station, and when railway excursions to the seaside were at their height, it was ideal for the day tripper.

Wonderland was conveniently situated next to the railway station, and when railway excursions to the seaside were at their height, it was ideal for the day tripper.

The station was built at a cost of £20,000, and its classic grandeur still dominates St George Square. The foundation stone, laid in 1845, weighed an incredible six tons.

Built by public subscription, the building on the right served as the fire station. Bearing the sign 'Ascot Fire Brigade, 1902' it is further identified by a lamp inscribed 'Fire Station'.

This part of Sunderland developed into the commercial and civic heart of the town following the opening of Fawcett Street Station by the North Eastern Railway.

The bus station is still doubling up as a car park in this view, where a lone Southern National service awaits departure time.

The Broadway c1955 In the last years of the 19th cen- tury Marconi set up an early wireless transmitting station near to Totland Bay, exchanging radio signals with a steamer out at sea.

Wool had a dramatic increase in population during the 20th century, thanks to the proximity of Bovington army camp and the Winfrith atomic power research station.

The Magistrates' Court (centre left) was built in 1930 as a police station. An earlier police station had stood in the same position.

The station was extensively remodelled in 1893, just four years before this picture was taken. The electric railway to the Giant's Causeway started from outside the front of the station.

This photograph shows the Central Station to the right. Opened to passenger traffic in July 1873, on the Bollington/ Marple route, it was rebuilt in 1960.

When the second station was constructed, new openings had to be made in the walls to give better access, because it was just outside the city walls. Much of the street plan was changed.

When the railway arrived, a station was built here at Marsden.

Lifeboats have been stationed here since 1923, and a new RNLI station was built in 1997-98. Traditional summer shows are still popular.

The railway station is in the centre, to the left of the bridge. It was the final station along the scenic route from Teesside to Whitby.

Until 1879, when a station opened on the Birmingham-Walsall railway, there had been only farmland here. Housing development followed the railway, but the station closed in 1965.

There is a spring in the step of the young soldiers who have just been dropped off at the bus station.

There is a spring in the step of the young soldiers who have just been dropped off at the bus station.

This old lifeboat station was in Polpeor Cove at the very southern extremity of the peninsula, exposed to the full force of the Atlantic and littered with reefs.

Over the years there have been several businesses with premises near the station - W Ivey, brick making and farming, Charles Archer, coals, John Hutchins, builder, Dukes, sellers of dairy cake and chicken

This must have been the most exposed, wind-swept bus station in Wales.

The London and South West Railway passed near here in 1860; but Talaton would have remained some distance from a station, had not the Sidmouth branch been built in the 1870s.

Taken from Station Approach, looking towards the village centre, this view is much the same today.

The Midland Railway station opened for traffic on 2 May 1870, replacing the somewhat smaller yet grander original station designed by North Midland Railway architect Francis Thompson.