A day in the life of Central Station …. 1978

I am back with some snaps of the city I took nearly half a century ago.

Snaps are those pictures often taken with a cheap camera on the spur of the moment, and pretty much forgotten and lost soon afterwards.

And these of the old Central Railway Station are just such.  

They were taken with a modest camera, on a day exploring bits of the city.

I have much better images in the collection, many in black and white which do much greater justice to the that stunning wall of glass and iron but these I like because they are just snaps of a stroll round what had become a car park but had all the features of its former self.

So, while there will be many who remember it’s existence as a place to park up and plenty more who will have caught a train south to the suburbs, the Peak District even London those memories will be fading.

Leaving me just to say I missed the trains by just a few months as Manchester Central closed just before I washed up in Manchester in 1969.

That said I have written about it and continue to visit the place now that it has become an exhibition centre.*

And that’s it.

Location; Central Railway Station

Pictures; Railway Station, and car park, 1978, from the collection of Andrew Simpson

*Central Railway Station, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search/label/Central%20Railway%20Station