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What this blog will eventually be about I do not know.
But it will be about how I’m coping with the loss of my wife and son to cancer in recent years and how I manage with being a coeliac and recovering from a stroke. It will be about travel, sport, engineering, food, art, computers, large projects and London, that are some of the passions that fill my life.
And hopefully, it will get rid of the lonely times, from which I still suffer.
Why Anonymous? That’s how you feel at times.
The Anonymous Widower
This last pre-Crossrail incarnation of Hayes Station was a much more user friendly and aesthetically pleasing set-up than the one that had previously existed dating back to the early 1960s, when the ground level entrance in Station Approach was metal-gated and only intermittently opened and there was no way of buying tickets at the street level. The attractive 1860s Victorian red brick GWR building shown here has been turned into a second formal station entrance complete with refurbished waiting room. Before that, one could, for the most part, only access the London-bound platform from the rather dull and unimpressive modernist-style ticket hall and entrance on the road bridge. The architect’s plans for the new Crossrail station also include entrances on both the road bridge and Station Approach. The last published design retains part of the facade of the old Victorian building as a nod to the station’s GWR history, albeit dismantled moved to a slightly different location.
Comment by Ray Philpott | May 9, 2019 |
I feel that the new steel and glass designs for these stations may be cheaper to run and keep clean! I’ll judge them when I see them in the fkrsh!
Comment by AnonW | May 9, 2019 |