Passenger shelter at Denham Golf Club station
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Passenger shelter at Denham Golf Club station
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 2 Feb 2014
You couldn't call this a waiting-room - just four thin walls and a roof, unlit and without a door. But for me it was quite a startling find, as the 'pagoda' roof marks it out as a relic of the old Great Western Railway. This one probably dates from 1912, when the Golf Club station first opened. Pagoda shelters were once a common sight at smaller GWR stations. I found the following picture (taken at Quakers Yard, perhaps in the 1950's) on Alan George's 'Old Merthyr Tydfil' website: http://www.alangeorge.co.uk/Images_Q-T/QuakersYard_LowLevelStation.jpg How far back in its history the GWR adopted the 'pagoda' style isn't clear. I suspect it was very early on - 'chinoiserie' had rather gone out of fashion by the second half of the 19th century.
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Image Location
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51.580508
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