“A magnificent Yorkshire railway station.”
这就是电视演示者和铁路历史学家蒂姆·邓恩在今晚描述了铁路建造的建筑集中的Huddersfield Station。
The new series is on at 8pm every Tuesday on Yesterday.
这一年级我的希腊式宝石 - 拥有英国铁路最令人惊叹的外观之一 - 由建筑师詹姆斯皮士Pritchett设计，由Joseph Kaye建造。
The station – built between 1846 and 1850, according to Historic England – is widely considered one of Pritchett’s best neoclassical works, which also include the buildings at York Cemetery.
Membership organisation约克公民信任says ofHudderfield station on its website: “The long neo-classical façade, reminiscent of a Palladian country house, with a portico of Corinthian columns, six wide and two deep, dominates St George’s Square, creating an impressive civic space planned as the centrepiece of the Victorian ‘new town’. [Poet] John Betjeman described the station as ‘as one of the most splendid in England’.”
Grandeur
The station owes its grandeur to the joint funding of the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal Company and the Manchester and Leeds Railway, according to Historic England.
在这款拖车中查看Huddersfield Station for Episode Nine：
It adds Josh Fitzwilliam, Lord Lieutenant, laid the station’s foundation stone on 9 October 1846. A public holiday was declared and church bells rang all day.
该电台于1847年8月部分开业，以便开始服务，但直到1850年10月，它没有完成。
它只有一个平台直到1886年，当轨道上终于完成时。屋顶的建筑在1878年开始，但在1885年倒塌，杀死了四名男子。
哈德斯菲尔德在圣乔治广场上有一些同样美丽的邻居。它们包括二级上市的Britannia建筑，由威廉·塔特爵士旨在，其工作还包括皇家交流in the City of London – on the site of London's first building designed for trading stocks.
改善你的旅程
We’ve worked hard in recent years to give you a better station at Huddersfield – one that’s fitting of such an impressive building.
2019年，我们和火车运营商TransPennine Express和Northern Trains完成了重要升级以扩展平台二。这将允许新的，更长的列车，在那里打电话给更多席位。
与此同时，我们在英格兰北部的彭代酮系列的七个站进行平台扩展，以便在路线上运行更长的火车。
Read more:
The Architecture the Railways Built – Wemyss Bay
The Architecture the Railways Built: Severn Bridge Junction
The Architecture the Railways Built – Ribblehead Viaduct
People and the railway: the Railway Heritage Trust
Film: the magic of the Glenfinnan Viaduct