I truly repulsive structure, certainly not in keeping with the original Victorian stone station building.
It is one of the related documents. The image shows the bus shelter that was recently installed at Warrington Bank Quay, as a cheaper alternative to fixing the roof of the Victorian waiting room which collapsed in bad recent bad weather.
You just know that's going straight in the bin.
Indeed, how are we supposed to know what this "awful looking thing" actually looks like?
They’re all over the south. Been fitting them for about 10 years or more. Standard kits of modular parts, I expect they can vary the length depending on location.
Always wondered what model they were. East Midlands have plenty of them. They are robust if they are not architecturally splendid or historic looking.
absolutely - seems a storm in a tea cup! Seems identical to many others on WCML stations. There is one at Bletchley for instance. They don't look great but they are welcome in the cold and the wet.
OK: what would you prefer instead and how will it be paid for?
These 'anti-vandal' shelters are very popular over the GWR and TfW networks, often with the glass panes kicked out!
EMR have started installing a fairly substantial looking glass structure that even has fake dagger boards on it in certain settings, one replaced the wooden LNER shelter that was demolished in the recent station improvements at Spalding with few complaints. I'll try and find a photo.
fake dagger boards sounds like a horrible pastiche, and in any event wouldn't be appropriate at Lancaster with it's quite boxy girder truss canopies and flat edges.
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My personal opinion is that in isolation it looks horrible. And quite a bit worse than what is proposed for Lancaster. The modern shelters don't look bad on isolated sections of platform (I'd never suggest installing one right next to a beautiful stone building), but the faux daggerboards on an isolated otherwise totally modern shelter just look like a mockery.EMR adds new shelter to Spalding station | RailBusinessDaily
A new £39,000 customer shelter at Spalding Station has been officially opened by East Midlands Railway (EMR). It was built after gathering local customer A new £39,000 customer shelter at Spalding Station has been officially opened by East Midlands Railway (EMR).
Here is the one at Spalding. OK, it's not the prettiest, but considering it is in a fairly historic station environment with few newer structures around it doesn't look too awful. At least it is sort of building shaped and it does keep the weather off.
The difference between the two stations is that Oxford Road's buildings have listed status meaning alterations/additions have to be sympathetic to the original and receive the requisite approval. You may consider Lancaster to be a heritage station but the fact that the main buildings are stone-built does not automatically mean they have listed status. In fact the main building on the west side of the station and the footbridge are listed but not the rest of the station.
