Buildings of Interest

Description

The original waiting rooms and booking office were constructed by Fairclough & Sons of Adlington for the Lancashire Union Railways Company in 1869, a scheduled passenger service on the line between St Helens and Wigan commencing on 1 December that year.

A reporter travelling on the inaugural train describes the station as “similar in character to that at Garswood but smaller: a handsome structure of blue bricks with neat stone facings, … the commodious waiting rooms and a strong glass partition which encloses the communication between the rooms contrasting very favourably with the provision which is made at most of the smaller stations in the neighbourhood for the comfort of the public.

The station-master's house is not attached to the booking office, but stands at the top of the embankment behind”. Slight improvements were made to the waiting rooms and booking office in 1895.

In June 1912 it was reported that the London and North Western Railway Company– which had absorbed the LUR Co in 1883- “has now gone to a considerable amount of expense in lighting up Bryn Station with gas and other alterations, the station having previously been lighted with oil lamps which have been the cause of many complaints made by the District Council for a large number of years”. 

The station master's house survived until c.1950, when it was demolished to make way for a council housing estate. The brick buildings on the platforms remained standing well into the 1990s, albeit by then unstaffed and boarded up.

They were demolished at the end of the last century and have been replaced by utilitarian bus stop-style shelters.