Re: Spring Road Railway Station Disused Booking Office
I take it that the building is no longer there. I am unsure as to the owner but it would either have been Network Rail or the Train Operating Company. It had not been a booking office for a long time and was used latterly for storage.
I have not heard anything about it going to a preserved railway. The other possibility is that it was removed either because it had become unsafe or else the railway viewed it that an empty building was or had become a target for vandalism. Perhaps it had been set on fire - some railway buildings have unfortunately met this end.
I know that some signal boxes once they have closed have sometimes been demolished within anything from hours later or within a week again for the same reason that empty buildings attract vandalism and Network Rail cannot afford to be responsible for delays to services caused by a signal box set on fire.
If I hear anything on the preservation grapevine, I will post back here.
I understand that all the booking office fittings, partition and window, etc. were all still inside and intact and so it would have made a nice little project for a preserved railway to take on.
