Joint Railway Station (Victoria Station) Hunt’s Bank Manchester: Setts to Hunts Bank

PAVING STONES OF PARPOINTS OR BOLTON SETS wanted by the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company for about 5,700 square yards of paving. The Parpoints are to be of the hardest quality, and not less than six inches depth and twelve inches in length, properly squared up on the ends and top and bottom beds. The stones are to be delivered into the Company’s waggons at any station on the Manchester and Leeds Railway; the parties tendering to state what station they propose to deliver them. Tenders for the Bolton Stone are required for both nine inch and seven inch sets. To be of hard material and properly squared and uniform in thickness. To be delivered on the site of the Hunt’s Bank Station, Manchester. Parties tendering must state the quantities they can deliver per week. The tenders are to be sent to the Office of the Company’s Principle Engineer, Palatine buildings, Hunt’s Bank, Manchester, on or before Monday next, the 4th of September. [Manchester Guardian 30 August 1843 page 4]

THE ASCENT TO THE RAILWAY STATION, HUNTS BANK – The paving of the carriageway and the flagging of the footpaths, of this inclined pane to the new joint station of the Liverpool and Leeds railways are proceeding with great speed towards completion, so as to be ready for the opening of the station (as regards the Leeds railway only), on Monday next. The ascent to the station, which commences in Hunt’s Bank, at the corner of the New Palatine Hotel, is 50 feet in width, with a flagged footway on each side, eight feet wide, and a carriageway 34 feet in width. It rises about one in twenty, and the level of the railway, 23 feet above Hunt’s bank, is attained about the centre of the pile of handsome stone edifices erected for the station offices and refreshment rooms. [Manchester Guardian 27 December 1843 page 2]

Reference    Manchester Guardian 30 August 1843 page 4
Reference    Manchester Guardian 27 December 1843 page 2