Severn Valley Railway to launch £4,000,000 share issue.

Tom: Apart from Kidderminster which is "new build" to a particular era, the other SVR stations are as far as I am aware still pretty much as built when the line was built.

Lets hope that when the revised ( or rather new plans) for buildings at Bridgnorth are unveiled that they fit in period-wise with the listed station building. That was the big no-no with the original plans, ie a "modern" building grafted onto a Victorian listed structure. Now get the exterior right, in harmony with what is already there, and you have choices for the interior. True you have to comply with modern H & S, building regs, facilities etc, but you can go for either a modern functional interior, or a "period" interior that still meets the regs, and the function it is designed for, ie shop, cafe etc. Probably costs more to put in a period interior, but I bet it would look good, and be a different "experience" for the patrons.

Just as a reminder, here is a link to the "Plan B" website with the alternative "period" structure, ie on the opposite side of the existing station building to the signal box, which is a million miles from the modern building originally proposed by outside architects and depicted on the glossy share issue brochure.

Link: http://www.bridgnorthstationplanb.co.uk/sketches.php

I think this design work is now in safer hands than it was before...hopefully.

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To be fair to them the original proposers were following current planning dictats which have insisted that the additions are in a style which in 1000 years an archologist would not confuse with the original. See any of the old building restoration progs on TV. A clasic example of despoilation IMHO is St Pancras. The modern train shed is a carbuncle on an old friend. As I told one of the architecs of the original Bridgnorthplans "You and the planners are talking protencious intelectual B------t. Hopefully the planners now understand the strengt of feeling of the membership