Store Street (later London Road) Station

Originally Store Street Station, it was re-named London Road in 1847. In 1862 it was demolished to make way for a new building to the designs of Mills and Murgatroyd. 

The station of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway is a very cleaver design. It is considerably elevated above the street, the carriage ascent being by a long inclined road, and that for people by a staircase. The principal building is entirely of stone, Italian in style. The front consists of a projecting centre, with a large segmental headed gateway, and two wings. Each wing has a door and window on each side, the mouldings, rustics and basement, being well designed. The cornice is peculiar in the stone imitations of tiles, which project to the edge, from about two feet back. There are two heights of windows, the upper one being square. The basement in the street is of brick, the entrances to the staircase being of stone. Each entrance has an arch doorway flanked by an order. The stairs are ascending and descending in the same well-hole, quite distinct, so that the two streams never meet, and as this arrangement is not common, we subjoin the dimensions The well-hole is 22 feet 9 inches square in the clear and the height to be ascended 29 feet. The stairs are 6 feet wide, and each tread is 12 inches. There are 72 steps and landings, each riser being nearly 5 inches high.

Reference           Manchester Guardian 26 November 1845 page 6 – from the Builder