railways

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] One might think of railway stations as fairly mundane places that one merely transits through on the way to a final destination. During the British Railways (BR) period, stations ceased to be 'temples of transport' and became utility buildings, one of the reasons that Blackpool North railway station is such a functional design classic. Crossing the brutalist architecture period with the post-Beeching (rail cuts programme) financial squeeze, didn't help. Things like the large logo locomotive livery at one end of the scale and the highly successful High Speed Train at the other, shows that BR could jolly well design…