Restored Stations Into Other Uses

[IanD]

Actually London Road is more than that now, - it is a thriving day nursery. See here including a .pdf documenting the coversion form a derelict station building into its present use:

http://www.monkeypuzzlestalbans.co.uk/londonrd/london-road-station-and-the-alban-way/#liteplayerID

It's been a while since I drove past. Used to do so 2 or 3 times a week to avoid the M1 roadworks. I'll have to take a detour and have a look.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Walsingham station is closed and found a new life as a monastic community house including the Russian Orthodox Church of St Seraphim.

 

[DasLunatic]

Wasn't Primrose Hill turned into a bookshop or something when NSE had away with it?

 

[roydrage]

I believe Melrose in the Scottish Borders is now an Italian restaurant

 

[47271]

http://m.scotsman.com/news/transpor...ate-scotrail-stations-1-3870491#axzz3pcbfzIsK

Looking into to this scheme may be useful.

 

[DarloRich]

Barnstaple Town railway station is now part of a school

 

[341o2]

I think there's a cafe/restaurant in the New Forest that used to be a train station

Holmsley on the former Brockenhurst - Ringwood line. The section of line approaching it is now a road

Officially "tea rooms"

www.stationhouseholmsley.com

 

[DarloRich]

Ridgmont station on the Marston Vale line is now a tea room and heritage centre. It is a VERY good tea room and i must insist that you attend. Soon.

http://www.marstonvalecommunityrail.org.uk/category/ridgmont/

http://www.voluntaryworks.org/brcc/ridgmont-station-heritage-centre-and-tea-room

(They have competition from the Costa at Woburn Sands Station - I know these stations are still open but the buildings have been put back into use for the community after years of dereliction. Of only something could be done with the building at Fenny Stratford, although that is a private house)

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The most historic part of Bristol Temple Meads was a museum but I think has now closed.

Yes, this was The British Empire and Commonwealth Museum which explored the history of the British Empire and the effect of British colonial rule on the rest of the world.

It opened in 2002, and I remember visiting once; it was quite good, I think. In November 2007 the museum announced it would be moving its core operations to London in 2008. The museum closed to the public in the autumn of 2008 and for school visits at the end of March 2009.

 

[fstrange]

Greenbank station buildings on the Mid-Cheshire line is now a church. Platforms still in use.
Cuddington station buildings on the Mid-Cheshire line is now an art gallery. Platforms still in use.
Delamere station buildings on the Mid-Cheshire line is now a cafe. Platforms still in use.
Northwich part of the station buildings are a café and job seekers resource hub. Also used by the Credit Union on some days. Ticket office and platforms still in railway use.
Mouldsworth station buildings on the Mid-Cheshire line is now a ladies hair dresser. Platforms still in use.
Mobberley station buildings on the Mid-Cheshire line is now a car leasing company. Platforms still in use.

 

[simonw]

Sea Mills has been used for commercial purposes for decades. Clifton Down has been a bar/club Under different brands for a similar period. Redland is used by an upholstery firm.

 

[deltic]

Barcelona Nord train shed is now a gym - the station was closed in 1972 when the line went underground - see https://www.barcelonanord.cat/en/the-station/history/

 

[steamybrian]

In Paris the former train shed and station building of Gare D'Orsay is now the Musee D'Orsay an excellent art gallery. I have been there !
The station was originally a terminus but when the line was extended underground beside the River Seine to connect with the other terminus (Gare Austerlitz) a smaller RER station was built adjacent to it.

 

[theageofthetra]

The old station building at Denmark Hill is now the Phoenix pub.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Although Dunedin Station in New Zealand is still a station, with the decrease in passenger rail traffic, the station now serves more functions than the one for which it was designed.

Bought by the Dunedin City Council in 1994, its uses have greatly diversified, though it still caters for the Dunedin Railways tourist trains. Much of the ground floor is used as a restaurant, and the upper floor is home to both the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame and the Otago Art Society.

A produce market is held in the grounds to the north every Saturday morning. Every year in March, the station takes centre stage in the South Island's main fashion show, with the main platform becoming reputedly the world's longest catwalk.

It's a lovely building ... well worth a visit!

 

[341o2]

Hurn station on the former Christchurch - Ringwood line is now the Avon Cauesway Hotel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurn_railway_station

quote

the station building and part of the platform were redeveloped into a public house with restaurant, the "Avon Causeway Hotel". The establishment has a railway-theme and a Pullman Carriage together with a shunting locomotive stands on a short section of track at the restored platform and is used for additional dining facilities. The Pullman (No. 340) was delivered to the Hotel at Easter 1979

 

[CETRAILWAYS]

Staines West the terminus of the former branch from West Drayton, and which now terminates at Colnbrook, is an office block. It had formerly been a house and dated from the early 1800s and largely because of this unusual amalgam together with architecture it was listed.



CETRAILWAYS

 

[talltim]

Dore station building is an Indian restaurant, the platform is still used for trains

 

[Mvann]

Corwen station is showroom for a trailer company.
George station in South Africa was a pub. Wilderness. Station on the same line was a restaurant.

 

[341o2]

Another former station building now converted to a tea room is Freshwater (IOW)

 

[Lankyline]

Tavistock Station is now luxury holiday cottages

 

[DerekC]

Not sure if it counts, but the entrance to Blackfriars Road station in London is a sweetshop. (Not a lot else left of it).

 

[unclefreddy]

Not sure if this one counts. The former engine shed at Malmesbury is now used as a store by a tyre fitting company. This is all that remains of the station and sidings that once served the town. The rest of the area is a long stay car park, meaning that visitors still have to walk up the steep hill to get to the Abbey and town centre. At Dauntsey, from where the Malmesbury Branch ran originally, the Station house is now a private dwelling, the former goods yard is home to some small industrial units and, I think still has some original buildings. Moving along the branch to Great Somerford a couple of Railway buildings are now private dwellings these being the Station House and a former crossing keepers cottage. Chippenham station, in common with many others, has a cafe that is run privately, Weston-Super-Mare's former station buffet is now a popular real ale pub.

 

[backontrack]

Tain station has a restaurant in the old building. It's called Platform 1864.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Petworth station in West Sussex now has a new existence as a high-quality accommodation and has been named The Old Railway Station. Pullman coaches are used for extra sleeping accommodation and their afternoon teas are excellent.

We will be in that area next week whilst on holiday and we always call at Petworth to visit Petworth House which is one of the best National Trust properties with displays of art and statuary.

 

[341o2]

a google search for "the old station house" has produced several results, some of which have already been mentioned on this thread

 

[backontrack]

Pitlochry Station Bookshop is situated in the station buildings of Pitlochry.

 

[scott118]

Here at Lingwood (Norfolk) whilst the platform is still in use for rail, the buildings are now a B&B.

Isn't Acle, the same?

One side of Gunton is a private home, with associated railwayana..

and for those looking to purchase - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/t...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Just the ticket! Railway station converted to four-bedroom home and three holiday train carriages on the market for £795,000
Skipwith Station near Selby, North Yorkshire, has been put on the market by owners David and Lizanne Southworth
They've restored and renovated the property over the last 11 years, including building up a holiday letting business
The main home, once the ticket office and waiting room, has four bedrooms. There's also 1.4 acres of land included

 

[AJM580]

Kirkby Stephen on the S & C is also similar to Acle & Lingwood as the main platform buildings have been converted to self-catering accommodation. I've booked a week there at the end of May

 

[341o2]

posted elsewhere in this section regarding the Londonderry & Lough Swilly railway which closed as a railway, the company became road hauliers using former stations as depots while retaining the title "railway co"