The grand interior of London Liverpool Street station taken from

platform one. Whilst the station roof today looks very impressive by the 1970s it had become very dirty and structurally unsafe. BR proposed its complete removal and the rebuilding of the station probably utilising the brutalist concrete style of the time. However, thanks to a campaign led by the Poet Laureate, Sir John Betjemaman, a public enquiry was set-up and this resulted in a reprieve for the station in 1977 and it was comprehensively renovated at huge expense. Subsequent developments have kept it all intact and what a superb example of Victorian opulence and confidence it remains today!