Survey Data
Reg No
22500033
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Previous Name
Waterford North Railway Station
Original Use
Platform
In Use As
Platform
Date
1905 - 1910
Coordinates
260295, 113047
Date Recorded
03/07/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding canopy, built 1908, over platform on cast-iron piers. Series of hipped felt roofs in timber frames on cast-iron beams and lattice girders with reeded Perspex skylights, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves having timber boarded apron. Series of paired cast-iron girder piers on cast-iron plinths having moulded necking. Sited sheltering concrete flagged platform.
Appraisal
This canopy, which extends almost the entire length of the railway station complex, is an attractive composition in early surviving cast-iron work. The construction of the canopy is of technical significance. The canopy, together with the signal box (22500027/WD-5632-16-27) and the surviving portion of the original railway station (22500032/WD-5632-16-32), is of significance as a reminder of the original railway station complex in Waterford City, much of which has subsequently been replaced.