Promenade Railway Station, Morecambe

NEW RAILWAY-STATION, MORECAMBE - The Midland Railway Company have rebuilt their station at Morecambe. The new station buildings occupy a site between the company's laundry and the goods shed, and have a frontage of about 250 feet. The general plan of the buildings is an enclosed parallelogram, with the various offices, waiting-rooms, etc., ranged around it. Along the front are the main entrance-hall, with three wide doorways in the centre. with the booking hall, booking offices. and parcel office and cloak-room on the right, and the general waiting-room, ladies' first-class and ladies' third-class waiting-rooms on the left. These all open on the inner side upon a glass-roofed circulating area, 174 feet long by 50 feet wide. From this area there are at either end exits for passengers who do not require carriages. The exit passages are 16 feet wide, and are covered. Across the circulating area from the booking hall are three 20 feet approaches to the platforms proper, divided by two blocks of lavatories—one for ladies, the other for gentlemen. In the angles of the main buildings at one end of the area are the station master's office and rooms for guards and porters, and at the other a refreshment-room and popular café. Two island platforms, each 30 feet wide. are completed. giving room for four full-length trains at once. and a third double platform can be constructed when required. Each platform is 900 feet in length, and they are all practically straight. The platform on the north side is covered with a glass awning for two-thirds of its length. The platforms have stone and concrete copings, and will ultimately be asphalted. Mr. W. B. Worthington, the Midland Company's Engineer, has designed and carried out the works, Mr Wheatley being responsible for the architectural part. With the exception of the buildings, which were let by contract to Messrs. C. Murgatroyd & Son, of Idle, the whole of the work has been done by the company's staff. Mr. F. J. Greasley has been the Resident Engineer and Mr. C. Dunnicliffe Clerk of the Works. [Builder 13 April 1907 page 454]

Reference           Builder 13 April 1907 Page 454