What they said

The first real cathedral of the Railway Age: it even had transepts Steven Parissien, ‘The English Railway Station’ Engineering as architecture, architecture as engineering Simon Jenkins, ‘Britain’s 100 Best Railway Stations’ I record this specimen of the shaking of the Manchester railway. The time is not far off when we shall be able to take our coffee and write while going noiselessly and smoothly at 45 m.p.h. Let me try Brunel, having had an uncomfortable trip on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, vows to do better