Exchange Station Buildings and Hotel, Tithebarn Street, Liverpool

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY - The directors are prepared to receive tenders for the erection of STATION BUILDINGS with an Hotel, Shops and Offices in front thereof, for the new Exchange Station in Liverpool. Plans may be seen and specifications and forms of tender obtained on application to Mr Henry Shelmerdine, architect, at the offices at Exchange Station. [Manchester Guardian 7 July 1884 page 1]

LIVERPOOL —A portion of the new Exchange Station of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, has just been opened for traffic, and the old building is now in course of demolition, previous to the erection of the other half of the new premises. When the station is completed, it will be one of the largest in the kingdom. It has frontages to Tithebarn-street and Bixteth street, and is built of stone and granite in the Italian style of architecture. The approaches to the platforms from Tithebarn-street and Bixteth-street are by easy gradients, exhibiting a vast improvement on the approach to the old station by a steep incline and numerous steps. The platforms at the Pall Mall end of the building are practically level with the street. The total area of land devoted to the building is about 3,400 superficial yards. The main frontage to Tithebarn-street will contain the entrance to the hotel; also a row of fifteen shops abutting up to the street. Two passenger entrances, 15 feet and 20 feet wide respectively, are made from Bixteth-street, and there are cab entrances and exits from Pall Mall; there is also a main carriageway from Moorfields. The station buildings proper consist of lofty dining-rooms, refreshment-rooms, waiting-rooms, lavatory accommodation, and the usual offices required for a railway station of the first class. The station, when completed, will have six platforms, each 255 yards in length, with eleven pairs of rails. The hotel will have an entrance from Tithebarn-street as well as entrances from the passenger approaches and cab landing, and will have seventy bedrooms. The buildings have been designed by Mr. Henry Shelmerdine, and the engineering works have been designed and carried out under the supervision of Mr. William Hunt, C.E., engineer-in-chief to the company; the contractors for the work being Messrs. Robert Neill & Sons, Manchester. [Builder 15 January 1887 page 132]

Reference        Manchester Guardian 7 July 1884 page 1 – contracts
Reference        Liverpool Mercury Monday 23 June 1884 page 3 - contracts
Reference        British Architect 26 December 1884 Page 314
Reference        Builder 15 January 1887 page 132 - opening