Forner Station Buildings used for other things

[Cletus]

Dover Marine station is now a Cruise Terminal.

 

[Clip]

Now demolished (following a fire a few years ago). Site now being redeveloped for apartments.

Isnt it amazing that the bloke who owned them also had fires at an arcade in Folkestone he owned and the scenic railway in Margate - a site he bought and also wanted to convert all to housing. How unlucky can you get

 

[Scouseinmanc]

Spellow station in Liverpool, is a bookmakers.
Fallowfield station in Manchester, is a bar.
Saddleworth station in Gtr Manchester, is a private dwelling.
Lord Street station in Southport, is a Travelodge & Morrisons' supermarket (frontage retained, trainshed long since demolished).

 

[Holmbridge]

Holmfirth station is now the Holmfirth Kingdom Hall of Jehova's Witnesses.

The station was demolished and a totally new building erected on the site in a weekend. The station house is a private dwelling I believe and has a little of the platform as a patio

Ex Wikipedia

The line was dismantled in 1966 and the Holmfirth booking office was soon to be demolished. The booking office site later became Kingdom Hall, a Jehovah's Witnesses church, which was built during one weekend in August 1985 by 2,500 volunteers.

 

[Dunc108]

The former Midland Railway terminal railway station of Morecambe Promenade is now a branch of the cheap and cheery Fayre & Square restaurant chain. Much former internal infrastructure has been preserved there.
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Another former seaside terminal station is that of Southport Lord Street which served for a while as a bus station and is now a Morrison's supermarket.

There's also now a Travelodge Hotel occupying part of the Southport Lord Street station site and much of the facade. Morrison's is still there though. Former Morecambe Promenade station also houses an Arts & Entertainment venue called The Platform.

 

[LTJ87]

The former Nottingham Low Level station is now a Virgin Active gym:

http://www.virginactive.co.uk/clubs/nottingham

 

[Trainfan344]

Hawes railway station still has a train in it!

It's part of the Dales Countryside Museum

 

[waterlooroader]

The former station building at Oakengates (Shropshire) is now a dentists' surgery; no jokes about waiting for delayed trains being like pulling teeth!

The former building at Codsall is now a rather pleasant pub...

 

[boyaloud]

Spellow station in Liverpool, is a bookmakers.
Fallowfield station in Manchester, is a bar.
Saddleworth station in Gtr Manchester, is a private dwelling.
Lord Street station in Southport, is a Travelodge & Morrisons' supermarket (frontage retained, trainshed long since demolished).

I must correct you on Fallowfield - until about two years ago it was a bar which went under various names, but the building has now been knocked through to/connected by Sainsbury's next door and forms their cafe (they didn't have one before).

 

[MrPosh]

RAF Cranwell station is now used as the guard room.

 

[BananaRepublic]

Lee-on-the-Solent station building is an amusement arcade.
http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/l/lee_on_the_solent/

Just down the road, the long derelict Gosport Station, has been renovated and re-built as business premises.
http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/g/gosport/
http://www.e-architect.co.uk/images/jpgs/england/gosport_railway_station_c160112_nr.jpg

The former station building at Southampton Terminus, the former main station in the city, is a casino.
The adjacent, former LSWR Southwestern Hotel, is now private apartments.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...Today.jpg/1280px-SouthamptonTerminusToday.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Southampton_terminus_canopy.jpg
http://media.rightmove.co.uk/69k/68816/38950618/68816_8582_IMG_00_0000.jpg


Hurn railway station, on the long gone Ringwood to Christchurch line, has been a pub for years. Complete with a railway carriage outside.
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5061/5569443239_749e611bda.jpg

 

[Mutant Lemming]

http://www.train-photos.com/picture/number15868.asp

I forgot about Atherstone being a veterinary practice.

 

[Soyyo]

By coincidence I was at one of these stations today: Forsinard on the Far North Line. As the station is in the middle of a peat bog, the RSPB use the former station building as a visitor centre. And very nice it is too. Unstaffed, but with loads of info about the nature reserve, space for kids to play and stuff to interest them - and a coffee machine, with honesty box to pay.

 

[Soyyo]

Also on the Far North line, Helmsdale station buildings have been converted by the local community into a holiday rental. You can get a reduced rent if you agree to spend half a day of each week tidying up the station!

And there is also a photographic dark room available to rent (either with the accommodation or separately) opening directly on to the platform. I had a look round it yesterday, and it is fully equipped with everything needed to develop enlarge and print, for any film photographers left out there.

A really nice waiting room has also been created by the community as part of the works, all of this on the southbound platform.

 

[MotorcycleAlan]

Not far from the Gosport pictures above Swanwick has a fabulous Indian restaurant in the old station master's house right on the platform. The pictures of Gosport reminded me how sad it was that the much talked about tram from Fareham to Gosport and Portsmouth never happened, which would have used some of the original trackbed, now a ghastly busway.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Here's a couple:

The old Newport station building (which was replaced by the new monstrosity!) has been taken over by Newport City Council as "The Information Station" - a one stop information centre.

Tintern Station is now "Tintern Old Station", a outdoor persuits centre.

The station being moved to St Fagans is the former Raglan Station, which closed in 1955 and has lately been used as a Council Highways Depot. Sadly, according to the article attached, they don't have a date for it's re-erection.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-20521066

One half of the former Cogan Station is now retail premises, but I'm not sure what's in there - or if it's still the original building.

The site of the former Rogerstone Station is now split between housing and a commercial building. There's going to be a new station, but it will be a new build and a lttle way further north.

 

[Soyyo]

Silly me - I have completely missed the point and included two stations that are still open on the Far North Line!

So here is one that isn't, Strathpeffer. It is now shops and also the Highland Museum of Childhood.

 

[quarella]

Whifflet. Now used by a taxi company. The ticket office windows are still in place with notices "This is NOT a ticket office" alongside. A dividing wall has been put down the middle with the platform side windows advertising a double glazing company.

 

[Antman]

Station buildings at both Aylesford and Snodland on the Medway Valley line are now Indian take aways

 

[swcovas]

The station building at Builth Rd low level is now the Cambrian Arms. I know that trains still call at Builth Rd on the HOWL but Low Level was in effect a separate station built by the Cambrian and closed in 1962. No real ale unfortunately but a super location and a great selection of rail photos.

 

[theageofthetra]

Tunbridge Wells West is a pub. The Spa Valley have their own buildings.

 

[CockneySparrow]

Isnt it amazing that the bloke who owned them also had fires at an arcade in Folkestone he owned and the scenic railway in Margate - a site he bought and also wanted to convert all to housing. How unlucky can you get

Coincidence I am sure ?????? seems a Frank Spencer type of bloke to me
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Felixstowe is a supermarket, Newmarket is offices and as mentioned above Redcar is in private hands

Who owns Newark Castle now, is ot private or under EMT