The nice part of Southport Chapel Street
A fine overall roof continues to grace the former L&Y terminus at Southport, but the facade and entrance in the now pedestrianised Chapel Street are as grim a work as the 1970s can offer. If the 1970s was the Dark Decade for architecture, the 1980s were every bit as grim for railway engineering, an era of investment starvation and making do and mending while the government held the tightest of purse-strings. The departing Class 142 Pacer railbus seen here represented a nadir of engineering, design and comfort, British Rail scrabbling for what could be found in contemporary bus technology, drawn from the underwhelming Leyland National.
The nice part of Southport Chapel Street
A fine overall roof continues to grace the former L&Y terminus at Southport, but the facade and entrance in the now pedestrianised Chapel Street are as grim a work as the 1970s can offer. If the 1970s was the Dark Decade for architecture, the 1980s were every bit as grim for railway engineering, an era of investment starvation and making do and mending while the government held the tightest of purse-strings. The departing Class 142 Pacer railbus seen here represented a nadir of engineering, design and comfort, British Rail scrabbling for what could be found in contemporary bus technology, drawn from the underwhelming Leyland National.