LNER Route: Leicester to Marylebone

Rugby Central Station: gcrcs173

View of Rugby Great Central station's booking office and hall sited on the bridge carrying Hillmorton Road over the railway. The style of the station building at road level was gothic in red brick and white Mansfield stone. The extra road width on the right was a cab rank intended to accommodate horse drawn cabs, later replaced by motor cabs. This photograph was probably taken in 1900 at the same time as image 'gcrcs65' and shows the completed station at road level. When compared to image 'gcrcs22' taken towards the end of the station's life there is little difference with the exception of a GPO telephone box and railway posters. The road looks as if its made of compacted earth and has yet to receive a tarmac surface. To the left of the photograph can be seen open fields showing its location was still rural at the turn of the century. The station was constructed by Topham, Jones & Railton, as part of Contract No.3 (Aylestone to Rugby).

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