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Situated just behind the clock tower, the bus station was opened in 1960 on a site that had previously been occupied by houses for railway workers.

Maidenhead only secured a station in 1871 and this spurred the development of King Street. The station approach became a sort of square, finally embellished by the Clock Tower.

A typical station approach of late 19th-century houses and the aptly named Railway pub.

Rifleman in East Street, a Canadian soldier was arrested and taken to the police station in Ashley Road, despite the complaints of his friends.

The station and crossing is at the bottom of the hill, and next to the Station Tavern (centre right) is now a new signal box.

The bus station was built to incorporate a parade of shops, seen here beneath the canopy. This has now changed considerably.

The Lifeboat House was built in 1893 at a cost of £1,400; in 1900 the 'John Francis White' was stationed here, followed in 1926 by the 'Dash'. The station closed in 1929.

This shows the junction line which linked the Great Western Railway Victoria Station with the Junction station - running from left to right - which opened in 1887. The earthworks are still bare.

Off the Lizard, fearsome rocks are a constant reminder of why a lifeboat station was established in 1859 in the very exposed Polpeor Cove right under the most southerly point in England

At the top of the public slope on the left may be seen the old Coastguard Station demolished in 1928 ; it was replaced by the building occupied today as a Coastwatch Station and museum.

When the railway arrived in 1849 George Cavendish, Earl of Burlington, laid out Terminus Road to link the station to the sea front, and it rapidly became Eastbourne's main commercial street.

It is thought that the name Telegraph Road comes from a 19th-century telegraph station that stood on top of the Beacons, to the west of the road; but if that was the case, it was not part of the telegraph

The sandy beach is overwhelmed by a tide of holidaymakers, most of whom have probably arrived here by train at the station in the left background.

A lifeboat station was established at Polkerris in 1859, when the first boat was given by the Rashleighs of Menabilly.

Pancras, and the development of the service, eventually required the building of this new station in 1960. It was praised as one of the first good modern stations.

Wolferton is the station nearest Sandringham. For nearly 50 years, trains brought royalty and statesmen from all over the world to this beautiful station.

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.

This photograph is a reminder of the days when small market towns like Andover had more than one railway station.

The photographer who took this picture was positioned at the entrance to Cirencester railway station.

There were two stations at Savernake, an Upper and Lower; one served the Great Western Company, the other the Midland SW Junction.

The line was opened in 1901, and the nearest station was known as Bentworth and Lasham Station. 'Market tickets' costing 7d return were issued for travelling to Alton every Tuesday.

To the left will eventually be Station Road leading to Gidea Park Station which was built in 1910.

The police station was demolished after the opening of the new station in Acton Road in 1967 - the site is now a wooded traffic island.

The tall buildings behind the lamp post, one with a sign for the Club and Literary Institute and built as a temperance hotel the other a bank dated 1898, flanked the entrance to Station Road.