Homes In Railway Buildings

This page focusses on railway buildings of all kinds that have been converted into homes, and some buildings which were homes all along! Click here to return to Industrial & Other Urban Buildings or back to top level Chimni Home Typology

Notable Examples

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  Cromford Station, Derbyshire. Built in 1860 as part of the now defunct Manchester, Buxton, Matlock & Midlands Junction Railway. Now a holiday home.

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  ‪The Old Station House, Haddiscoe, Norfolk got left high and dry when the track and bridge over the River Waveney were removed. It has a sun room in the old signal box!‬

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  Dent Station at Cowgill, Sedbergh built in 1877. England's highest mainline railway station and situated on the legendary Settle to Carlisle railway line.

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  Coalport Station on the Severn Valley Line in Shropshire which opened in 1863 and closed a century later. The line and station, now a home, were built to serve the famous Coalport China Works of John Rose & Co

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  ‘Coed y Bleiddiau’, a railwayman’s cottage on the Ffestiniog Railway, on the slopes of Snowdonia . Beautifully restored by the Landmark Trust, the name means 'Wood of the Wolves', in Welsh.

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  Castle Howard Station ‘Platform 1’ at Wilburn, York. On the York to Scarborough Line. Opened on 5 July 1845 it was one of the most imposing stations on the line in its day, as befitted the Earl of Carlisle and his guests.

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  A converted 19th century station on the former Great Northern Railway in Rippingale, Lincolnshire. Built in 1872 but closed in the Beeching cuts in 1960s when it was converted into a family home with its own 1924 steam locomotive.

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  Heacham Station was once a busy station on the Lynn to Hunstanton line used by the royals while at Sandringham. It survived Beeching, but was cut from the line when the Royals started using Kings Lynn . It’s now a home‬.

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  North Cave Railway Station on the old Hull, Barnsley & West Riding Junction Railway was opened on 20 July 1885 and closed in 1959 when it was converted to a home

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  Station House at Longhirst, Northumberland (near Morpeth) was built in 1845 and served as the station master’s house and village station until it closed in the late 1950s. It was recently restored and converted to a home.

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  The Old Station is a converted village railway station at Newlands, Gloucestershire, that stopped operating in 1916. It has level crossing gates on the front drive!

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  This converted train station at Privett, Hampshire is thought to have been built in 1903 and sat along the old Meon Valley Line between Farnham and Fareham. It was taken out of use and converted to a home in 1955.

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  The Old Railway Station, Long Melford, Suffolk. It was part of the Stour Valley Line from Sudbury to Cambridge. The line was closed as part of Dr Richard Beeching’s cuts and the Station was turned into a family home.

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  In need of some love, the Old Station House at Dyffryn Ardudwy, on the North Wales Line, sits next to the new station and has barely changed since it was built in Victorian times.

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  This Victorian station house, located between Moortown and Nettleton in Lincolnshire was built in around 1850 by the Manchester Sheffield Railway Company and ended it's working life in the 1960s although the line is still active.

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  The Station House at Pulham Market, Norfolk opened in 1855 and served the Waveney Valley Line, which went from Tivetshall Station to Beccles. The station served the nearby Pulham Air Station, which was in use until 1948. The line closed to passengers in 1953

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  The old railway station at Snettisham in Norfolk

Railways Homes In Art And The Media

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  ’The Little Railway Station, Alethea Garstin (1894–1978)

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  ‘Stationmaster’s House, Rowfant’, Michael Gage

http://www.railwaystationcottages.co.uk/

http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/n/north_cave/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/9587572/Top-ten-converted-railway-buildings.html