Yes and no, Chris. The Midland Grand originally did open as a railway hotel,
but having been designed with more of an eye to grandeur and opulence than
to commercial success, it did not have any running water in any of it rooms.
It therefore closed in 1935, and the rooms became railway company offices,
in which state they festered for 50 years.
Although they had the headline right, they did not edit the numerous
reader-supplied references to "train stations". Yuck.
Piers
PS I passed through it almost daily for a similar period of time - and also
used its northern twin, Manchester Central station, for many years. The
railway company never built the 'permanent' frontage for it, so it lasted a
century with wooden offices.
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From: Chris Barker [mailto:ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 17 February 2013 14:48
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Railway Stations
Thanks, Chris. It was going so well until the line, "The older St Pancras
station is now a hotel . . ."
I'm pretty sure that it always was; the "newer" station is just the original
one, refurbished.
The writers for the BBC website (and for Radio 4) are losing their grip, I
think. I stop reading because I wonder how much of the rest they've got
wrong.
Chris
p.s. The Midlands Hotel, as it was called, is a majestic building which I
have passed many times over the last 19 years. cb
On 17 Feb 2013, at 14:34, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Here's an interesting photo essay on railway stations from around the
world:
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21428797
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