Lancaster

CRS Code	LAN
Collected date	08/09/14

Lancaster was the base of operations for a holiday in the north west, so once we'd settled into our B&B just over the road from the station I wandered round with a camera.

The station has two entrances, one on each side of the line. This is the approach to the eastern side entrance:

The side of the eastern station building:

The front of the eastern station building:

The eastern station building houses a ticket office and bookshop:

And gives onto a footbridge which links the two sides of the station with the central island:

The exit from the footbridge to platforms 1-3:

And from platforms 3 you reach the real front of the station:

The rear of the station building with platform 3 beneath it:

Detail of the castellations on one end of the station building:

An LC motif in stone on the station building:

On platform 3 looking north:

An old drinking fountain on platform 3:

A plaque marking the 150th anniversary of the death of Joseph Locke:

Looking south from the same point:

The northern end of the canopy on platform 3:

The buffers of the two bay platforms 1 and 2:

Looking north at platforms 1-3:

At the northern end of the station, looking south at the platforms:

Looking north along the line from the same point:

The footbridge seen from platform 4:

The supports of the footbridge seen from platform 3:

Looking south from the footbridge:

The steps from the footbridge to the island platforms 4 and 5:

Looking north at platforms 4 and 5:

The end of the canopy on platforms 4 and 5:

Platform 4 seen from platform 3 opposite:

On platform 5 looking north:

Looking north from further south on platform 5 we see the disused platform which backs onto the eastern station building:

The rear of the eastern station building and its disused platform:

Steps lead up from the disused platform:

But their counterpart on platform 5 has been bricked up:

All photographs are © Alexandra Lanes You may reproduce them anywhere for any purpose. Coastline maps are reproduced from Ordnance Survey map data by permission of the Ordnance Survey © Crown copyright 2001