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kat2
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Lime Street Gateway, Liverpool
Reproduced :>Lime Street Station opened in 1836 as the new terminus for the first public railway line in the UK, the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. The oldest remaining part of the station building – the wall to the rear of Platform 1 – dates from 1849. At the time of its construction the 47m arched trainshed was the largest single-span roof structure in the world. There have been numerous refurbishments over the decades – the most recent in 1984<
the rest of this write up can be seen here:
http://www.englishpartnerships.co.uk/limestreet.htm
more here about the architects
http://www.glennhowells.co.uk/
kat
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Last edited by kat2; 07-29-2007 at 01:31 AM.
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