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Brunswick

CRS Code BRW
Collected date 02/07/13

Brunswick sign

Brunswick station serves the Toxteth area of Liverpool, and although a station has been in the near vicinity since the 19th Century, the current station is modern and dates from 1998, as this plaque notes:

Brunswick plaque

The front of the station complex, which is also a bus interchange:

Brunswick front

The station building with the steps to the footbridge on the left and the ramp to the footbridge just visible beyond:

Brunswick station building

The station building backs onto platform 1, for trains towards Liverpool:

Brunswick platform 1

Like most stations, Brunswick knows what it is for:

Brunswick for

From the footbridge which spans the tracks, looking south:

Brunswick from footbridge looking
south

Looking north from the footbridge:

Brunswick from footbridge looking
north

The shelter on platform 2, underneath the ramp leading up to the footbridge:

Brunswick platform 2 shelter

The footbridge also gives access to the eastern entrance to the station:

Brunswick eastern entrance

Through the entrance is the iconic Century Building:

Brunswick Century Building

To the west of the station is an old ramp:

Brunswick old ramp

A plaque explaining the ramp. THIS RAMP WAS ERECTED BY THE LIVERPOOL HEALTH COMMITTEE IN 1866 TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO A BRIDGE SPANNING THE FORMER CHESHIRE LINES RAILWAY LINKING HORSFALL STREET WITH THE DOCKS. THE RAMP WAS RESTORED BY MERSEYSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION IN MAY 1984 AS PART OF THE REGENERATION OF THE LIVERPOOL SOUTH DOCKS.:

Plaque on Brunswick old
ramp

Another plaque:

Erected by the Health
Committee 1866