Liverpool Street Station
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Rupert Truman Download Original
Refurbishment of Liverpool Street train station including the extension of the roof and redevelopment of surrounding site into an office district
Liverpool Street originally comprised two distinct shed areas known as the Eastern train shed and the Western train shed. During the redevelopment between 1985-1991 the Eastern shed was demolished and the Western shed was re-configured, with much of the original remaining. The original station occupied a site of approximately 10 acres and was partially built on the former Bethlem Hospital site.
Instrumental in tailoring the station to modern requirements was the creation of a new concourse running across the heads of the re-aligned platforms.To facilitate this, a new transept was created which incorporated new entrances to Liverpool Street itself, Bishopsgate and a new bus terminus to the western end of the concourse.
The cast iron structures are particularly fine and the acanthus leaves capitals, removed in the 1950s, have been fully reinstated. The brickwork generally is of Suffolk origin with Bath stone dressings
Data
- Begun: 1985
- Completed: 1991
- Sector: Transport
- Total cost: £120M
- Procurement: Project Management
- Address: Bishopsgate, London, EC2M 7PY, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Architecture and Design Group, British Railways Board
- Project architects: Alastair Lansley, Nick Derbyshire
- Client: Network SouthEast, British Railways Board
- Quantity surveyor: Rider Hunt and Partners
- Construction Consultant: Bovis Construction
- Project manager: Director Projects British Railways Board
- Structural engineer: New Works Engineers Network
- Structural engineer: YRM Anthony Hunt Associates
- Structural engineer: Frank Graham and Partners
- Structural engineer: De Leuw Chadwick Witham
- Electrical & mechanical engineer: British Railways Board
- Drainage & public health engineer: Prestage Topp Building Services
- Electrical & mechanical engineer: Building Engineering Service
- Electrical & mechanical engineer: Andrew Wilkes Management
Suppliers
- Brickwork and Stonework: Benn Barrett and Son
- Glass and Metal cladding: Briggs Amasco Architecture
- Structural glazed wall: Pollards of London
- Reproduction of orginal stone piers : Rocamat
- Stone and Brick restoration: Stoneguard
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