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Manchester M1, UK
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Gordon St, Glasgow G1 3SL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H541YW - Warrington Bank Quay railway station is one of two railway stations serving the town centre of Warrington in Cheshire, England.
A Virgin train shown here at platform three.
Warrington Bank Quay is a north-south oriented mainline station on one side of the main shopping area, with the west-east oriented Warrington Central on the other side to the north west operating a more frequent service to the neighbouring cities of Liverpool and Manchester.
A bus shuttle service operated every 20 minutes from Monday to Friday daytime between the two stations and the Centre Park business park. The station is directly on the West Coast Main Line.
Bank Quay, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED8PP1 - Victoria Square is a pedestrianised public square in Birmingham, England. It is home to both the Town Hall and the Council House, and directly adjacent to Chamberlain Square.
The square is often considered to be the centre of Birmingham, and is the point from where local road sign distances are measured. It is a short walk from St. Philip's Cathedral on Colmore Row and is on the main pedestrian route between the Bull Ring and Brindleyplace areas. Three major roads, Colmore Row, New Street and Paradise Street meet there.
Victoria Square, Birmingham, England, UK, B3 3DQ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED8PP4 - Victoria Square is a pedestrianised public square in Birmingham, England. It is home to both the Town Hall and the Council House, and directly adjacent to Chamberlain Square.
The square is often considered to be the centre of Birmingham, and is the point from where local road sign distances are measured. It is a short walk from St. Philip's Cathedral on Colmore Row and is on the main pedestrian route between the Bull Ring and Brindleyplace areas. Three major roads, Colmore Row, New Street and Paradise Street meet there.
Victoria Square, Birmingham, England, UK, B3 3DQ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ED8PPE - Victoria Square is a pedestrianised public square in Birmingham, England. It is home to both the Town Hall and the Council House, and directly adjacent to Chamberlain Square.
The square is often considered to be the centre of Birmingham, and is the point from where local road sign distances are measured. It is a short walk from St. Philip's Cathedral on Colmore Row and is on the main pedestrian route between the Bull Ring and Brindleyplace areas. Three major roads, Colmore Row, New Street and Paradise Street meet there.
Victoria Square, Birmingham, England, UK, B3 3DQ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DB6PGG - Welcome to Liverpool Lime Street Station sign from Network Rail in English city in front of canopy of mainline station.
Liverpool Lime Street is a terminus railway station serving the city centre of Liverpool, England. A large building resembling a Château fronts the station. The station terminates a branch of the West Coast Main Line from London Euston and TransPennine Express trains.
An urban through underground station on the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail network is accessed via the main terminus. Lime Street is the largest railway station in Liverpool, and is one of 17 stations managed by Network Rail
Lime St, Liverpool, England UK L1 1JD
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CFEFHN - Gold Zone Virgin trains sign, Warrington Bank Quay, Parker St, Warrington, Cheshire , UK
Virgin Trains introduced three sliding classes of travel. Instead of First and Standard, you'd have Gold Zone, Blue Zone and Purple Zone. Gold Zone was full First Class and available to full-fare First Open ticket holders only. This would always take up at least 2 of the First Class vehicles, but in the peaks would take up all of them.
'Purple Zone was Standard Class, available to all Standard ticket holders, and would take up at least 3 of the Standard Class vehicles. The other vehicles would be the Blue Zone, which was where it got controversial. The Blue Zone was available only to holders of full-fare undiscounted Standard Open singles and returns, but also contained Weekend First accommodation on weekends and off-peak. On weekends, it would include both First and Standard accommodation, but in the peaks Standard only.'
Warrington Bank Quay, Parker St, Warrington, Cheshire , UK, WA1 1LW
![iPod Shuffle2 - Station To Station [ Liverpool, UK Lime St Station at Dusk ] 6396301787 dusk,Liverpool,scouse,scouser,city,station,railway,rail,terminal,roof,platform,platforms,pano,panorama,night,evening,UK,beatles,passengers,passenger,virgin,west,coast,mainline,main,line,tickets,journey,London,England,joiner,train,trains,pictures,photos,photographs,images](https://live.staticflickr.com/6100/6396301787_48d0d7565b_o.jpg/)
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 6396301787 - 'David Bowie - 'Station To Station' - Play this track here.
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Station to Station is the tenth studio album by English musician David Bowie, released by RCA Records in 1976. Commonly regarded as one of his most significant works, Station to Station is also notable as the vehicle for Bowie's last great 'character', The Thin White Duke.
The album was recorded after he completed shooting Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth, and the cover featured a still from the movie. During the sessions Bowie was heavily dependent on drugs, especially cocaine, and recalls almost nothing of the production.
Musically, Station to Station was a transitional album for Bowie, developing the funk and soul music of his previous release, Young Americans, while presenting a new direction towards synthesisers and motorik rhythms that was influenced by German electronic bands such as Kraftwerk and Neu!.
This trend would culminate in some of his most acclaimed work, the so-called Berlin Trilogy, recorded with Brian Eno in 1977\u201379. Bowie himself has said that Station to Station was 'a plea to come back to Europe for me'. The album\u2019s lyrics, meanwhile, reflected his preoccupations with Nietzsche, Aleister Crowley, mythology and religion.
With its blend of funk and Krautrock, romantic balladry and occultism, Station to Station has been described as 'simultaneously one of Bowie's most accessible albums and his most impenetrable'. Featuring the single 'Golden Years', it made the Top 5 in both the UK and US charts. In 2003, the album was ranked number 323 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
In the early days of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&
MR), the Liverpool terminus was located at Crown Street, in Edge Hill, officially opened in 1830. Construction of a purpose-built station began in October 1833, the land being purchased from Liverpool Corporation for \u00a39000. A tunnel was constructed between Edge Hill and the new station (starting in 1832, prior to station construction), and the station was opened to the public in August 1836, although construction was not completed until the following year.
Because of the steep incline between Lime Street and Edge Hill, trains were stopped at Edge Hill, their locomotives removed, and the passenger carriages taken down by gravity, descent controlled by brakemen. The return journey was achieved by using a stationary engine to haul the carriages up with rope.
Within six years, the rapid growth of the railways meant that the original station needed to be extended, and a plan was made to erect an iron roof similar to that found at Euston station in London, ridge roofs supported by iron columns
however, Richard Turner and William Fairburn submitted a design for a single curved roof, which won the approval of the station committee. The work cost \u00a315,000, and was completed in 1849. A second roof was added in the 1880s.
In 1845 the L&
MR was absorbed by its principal business partner, the Grand Junction Railway (GJR)
the following year the GJR formed part of the London and North Western Railway. The station was one of the first to send mail by train. The North Western Hotel designed by Alfred Waterhouse, was built in front of the station - this still stands, having been converted to accommodation for students of Liverpool John Moores University. At 'the grouping' in 1923, the station passed to the ownership of the London, Midland and Scottish (LMS) railway, and, in 1948, the London Midland Region of British Railways.
Lime Street was part of the first stage of electrification of the West Coast Main Line in 1959. In 1966, the station saw the launch of the first InterCity service.
Lime Street was voted the equal worst of the 20 busiest UK railway stations in a 2007 poll but was voted 'Station of the Year 2010' at the National Rail Awards thanks in part to a recent reburbishment
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3734237125 - 'Train spotters and gricers need to be quick at this station just outside Stockport, Cheshire (near Manchester UK).
Another railway shot, from the signal box www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4325565629/
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3709536244 - 'Lever factory in the background. Taken from the west coast mainline south bound platform at Warrington Bank Quay station, Cheshire UK at dusk in the magic hour.
Gricers and train spotters may wish to know this was the 22:37 Virgin trains service (Air conditioned Diesel Voyager). Off course the west coast mainline is now electrified and generally high speed Pendolino (Pendo) trains ply the route.
A slower suburban train www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3835313976/
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy MHM66Y -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DRH887 - Virgin Trains is a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by Virgin Group (51%) and Stagecoach (49%) that has operated the InterCity West Coast franchise since 9 March 1997.
Virgin Trains operate long-distance passenger services on the West Coast Main Line between Greater London, the West Midlands, North West England, North Wales and Scotland. The service connects the major cities of London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Glasgow which have a combined metropolitan population of over 18 million people.
Liverpool Lime St Station, Liverpool, England UK
