• Rebuilding the 1950s modernist concrete Barking Station

    A listed modernist railway station is set to be restored to its original 1950s appearance.Barking Station is primarily listed for the bold, modern structure of the Booking Hall, which was built in 1959 to the designs of H.H. Powell, the chief architect of the Eastern Region of the British Railways Company.
    The station was rebuilt as part of the Eastern Region’s programme to electrify the line, which had been proposed in 1954 underThe Modernisation and Re-Equipment of the British Railways p

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