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GREEN PARK
Green Park Railway Station (disused)

29/11/71

GV II

Railway station, now in commercial use. 1869, by JH Sanders, train shed by JS Crossley (Chief Engineer of the Midland Railway), restored and converted c1983, with former lines removed and platform well raised to common floor level.

MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar front and flank buildings, cast and wrought iron shed.

PLAN: Grand Classical frontispiece has lower wings to both sides, enclosing in part long train shed, exposed to south, on Midland Bridge Road.

EXTERIOR: Principal front block in two storeys, one:five:one-windows, centre section recessed, with six Ionic columns `in-antis' to square Doric responds, framing two-light casements with one horizontal bar, in moulded architraves below sunk panel. To each side triple casement with central pediment to Ionic mullions. Ground floor channelled masonry with pair of panelled doors and transom light, each side of three eight-pane sashes, all to stone paved landing on three wide steps, end pavilions have four:eight:four-pane tripartite sashes with wide channelled mullions. All to deep moulded plinth, ground floor entablature with blocking as base to first floor, with deep entablature with dentil cornice, and balustrade in seven panels with dies. Five centre bays are covered by wide glazed canopy with lattice beams carried on two slender shafted cast iron columns. Returns each end are plain, with stack. Inner face, to train shed, has triple and two-light casements above triple lights, with three large four-pane sash between pairs of glazed doors with transom lights. Lower wing to right has canted element with hipped slate roof with four eight-pane sash above six-panel door, then longer range in two storeys with eight eight-pane sashes above lower ground floor plinth, with, to right, hipped slated pavilion with central louvered vent. Four stacks to this range, and original spearhead cast iron railings on curb to lower ground floor area. On left of main block short single storey run with pair of late C20 doors to canted head in channelled masonry, on quadrant of four steps to landing. Beyond this short canted wall with two eight-pane sashes, then longer run with eight eight-pane and one twelve-pane sash with hood on consoles. This range has four stacks.

INTERIORS: Entrance and office units plain. Lying back from south masonry range outer wall of main shed, with eight bays exposed, on rubble plinth with various openings. Main columns exposed between vertical boarded panels under narrow clerestory formed by glazing to lattice eaves beam. Train shed interior has wide central concourse with aisle each side, partly doubled on north side. Fourteen-bays, with tapered cast iron columns to flared capitals, having segmental arched riveted iron beams carrying ten latticed purlin beams and ridge beam, roof has central six-panels fully glazed in patent glazing, and lower panels have diagonal boarding between trusses, slated externally. Aisles crossed by slender latticed trusses in bow-string form, with vertical members extended to carry purlins. Outer end of shed segments closed with very light suspenders and glazing bars, but without glass. Inner ashlar walls of flanking office units have large eight-pane sashes with cornices on consoles, and various doors to segmental heads and with bolection mould surrounds. On north side are nine-bays with double aisle and extra row of columns, with extra pitched roof to bow-string outer end, end pavilion sets back from main offices, with wide pair of doors to segmental head in bolection mould surround to west. Floor level within shed now at one level, partly boarded. With removal of rail bed station was for many years abandoned and deteriorating, but as part of planning gain exercise with major retailer, building fully restored, and used for various small retailing enterprises, and partly for car parking. Original architect produced high quality design for unit facing into city, and train shed of usual forthright pattern, with much delicate detailing in structural ironwork. Little effort was made to bring two together, and there is a clash where last truss member meets inner face of `polite' frontage.

HISTORY: This station, known originally as Midland station, was built for the Midland Railway and was opened 5th August 1869. The station was built by Mr. Humphreys of Derby and the shed by Andrew Handyside of Derby. The Clerk of Works was John Green, and the resident engineer was Mr Turnbull. From 1874 it was also used by the Somerset and Dorset Railway, which in 1875 became jointly owned by the Midland Railway and London & South Western Railway and renamed the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway. This then passed to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) and Southern Railway in 1923. The station was closed in 1966 and remained unused until 1983. The station is now a café and shops; the former platforms and tracks are now used for car parking and markets.

SOURCES: [See RCHME Report and Survey in NMR, Ref. 33210 ( Orbach J: Victorian Architecture in Britain: London: 1975-: 25; Civil Engineering Heritage: Sievewright WJ: Wales and Western England: London: 1986-: 23).

Listing NGR: ST7455964782

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Bath Green Park railway station at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q4868918

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