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Manchester Mayfield Station Demolition

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  1. voyager

    voyager New Member

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    When in Manchester yesterday I noticed that Mayfield (the former parcels and excursion station across Fairfield Street from Piccadilly) was in the process of being demolished.

    If any heritage railway has plans for adding platform canopies and/or an overall roof in the foreseeable future then now may perhaps be the time to act to attempt to secure some fine columns and roof trusses. (I say this purely speculatively - I have no connection whatsoever with either the demolition contractors or those who have engaged them but am simply reporting my observations.)

    Based on the labelling of the plant in use the demolition contractors would appear to be Bagnalls (of Warrington and Leeds).

    Best of luck!

    Mark
     
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  3. GHWood

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    Superb pictures. What a shame this time capsule of a station couldn't be reused :(
     
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  4. ADB968008

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    Pity it couldn't have been dismantled and relocated to Castleton Yard, as a 1 level station, with a bit of imagination the ELR could have had a mainline terminus in that vast unused yard there.
     
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    Only the roof is being demolished, the station itself will remain presumably until the site is redeveloped.


    "A PLANNING application has been submitted for permission to pull
    down the roof at Manchester's derelict Mayfield railway station.

    Prior to Government cutbacks the site, next to Piccadilly
    Station, was earmarked for a 550,000 sq ft civil service campus,
    described as a "Whitehall of the North".

    The planned demolition work is not a prelude to a revival of this
    scheme but instead an attempt to make the area safe.

    A planning application states: "The existing structure is in a
    dangerous condition and hazardous to both authorised persons who
    are on site, and trespassers entering the site illegally."

    The work will involve the removal of an asbestos roof covering
    and broken wired glazed roof lights, and the supporting
    structure, "all of which are in a dangerous condition".

    The application has been made by British Rail Board (Residuary),
    the government agency that manages the site.

    Manchester City Council is understood to still harbour a desire
    to create a civil service campus site in the longer term, but in
    the interim a new partnership is being formed involving BRBR and
    Transport for Greater Manchester which will bring forward a new
    development strategy for the site."

    In the meantime however it's being used as a venue for the Manchester International Festival this summer.

    Chris
     
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  6. campainr

    campainr Well-Known Member

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    Its good that so many "urban explorers" have secured a record - even though they are partly the reason for the partial demolition.
     
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    RalphW Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Administrator Friend

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    "A planning application states: "The existing structure is in a dangerous condition and hazardous to both authorised persons who are on site, and trespassers entering the site illegally."

    A hazard to authorised persons on site, end of, anyone on site illegally takes the consequences, if they are injured whist trespassing then it's their own stupid fault...
     
    RalphW, Mar 3, 2013
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  9. Enterprise

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    So trespass without being stupid?
     
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    OK any sort of trespass, going onto a derelict site which is private property in any unauthoried circumstances is asking for trouble, so why?
     
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    Interest and Fun!
     
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  12. Nick Gough

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    Didn't some boys (and men) trespass at engine sheds 45 and more years ago?:smile:
     
    Nick Gough, Mar 6, 2013
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    Yes, but times have changed. The Brits are so obsessed with private property - 'get orf my land' syndrome, and if you trespass anywhere you may be regarded by our bone headed police as a terrorist thanks to the current hysteria. Even trespassers who get hurt can get a sympathetic old man in a wig to award them compensation; after all nobody is expected to watch out for himself in our nanny state. That is why there is a tendency to knock old buildings down, clear the site and flog it to a developer for yet more luxury flats.
     
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    About half of it had gone passing on the train yesterday. May try and get a couple of pics before heading south on Sunday.

    Sad end but inevitable.
     
    DJH, Mar 9, 2013
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