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Derby Station December 1983
A Sunday afternoon sees a newspaper vendor set up on an old parcels trolley at a very quiet Derby station.
It’s hard to imagine that this small space and single gate was the main entrance to the platforms and housed the station’s booking office windows. To the right of the camera was a door to a room that housed the travel centre, where advance bookings were taken.
Looking at other photos, the original station buildings were a labyrinth of connected buildings, with the original North Midland Railway station nearest the platform with a later Midland Railway addition with porte cochere added in front of this centre section.
Although sadly demolished the following year, realistically it’s difficult to imagine how this arrangement would have coped with the large increase in passenger numbers now using the station - the queue system for the current booking office windows would have filled most of this space alone. Maybe a favourable remodelling of the interior space would have occurred had the station survived in its original format for long enough.
Derby Station December 1983
A Sunday afternoon sees a newspaper vendor set up on an old parcels trolley at a very quiet Derby station.
It’s hard to imagine that this small space and single gate was the main entrance to the platforms and housed the station’s booking office windows. To the right of the camera was a door to a room that housed the travel centre, where advance bookings were taken.
Looking at other photos, the original station buildings were a labyrinth of connected buildings, with the original North Midland Railway station nearest the platform with a later Midland Railway addition with porte cochere added in front of this centre section.
Although sadly demolished the following year, realistically it’s difficult to imagine how this arrangement would have coped with the large increase in passenger numbers now using the station - the queue system for the current booking office windows would have filled most of this space alone. Maybe a favourable remodelling of the interior space would have occurred had the station survived in its original format for long enough.