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Middlesbrough railway station serves the large town of Middlesbrough in the unitary authority of Middlesbrough and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. The station is managed by First TransPennine Express and has two covered platforms. Each platform is subdivided into two sections i.e. platform 1 (1a and 1b) and platform 2 (2a and 2b). The station is staffed and has a range of facilities including car parking, cafe, newsagent, cycle storage, lifts etc. Two freight lines bypass to the north of the station. According to the Office of Rail Regulation statistics, Middlesbrough railway station is the fourth busiest in the North East region, with 1,370,172 total entries and exits (2013-14 period). ==History== Although the first railway was built in the area as long ago as 1830 as an extension of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and extended eastwards to Redcar in 1846, the current station dates from 1877. The site was previously home to the original 1847 station, demolished to make way for its successor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Railway Architecture of North East England : Middlesbrough Station )〕 The current station was designed by the North Eastern Railway's chief architect, William Peachey, with an ornate Gothic style frontage. Behind this an overall roof of elliptical design once existed. Constructed out of wrought iron of lattice design, with glass covering the middle half and timber (inside)/slate (outside) covering the outer quarters. The two end screens were glazed with timber cladding around the outer edges. The roof was high in relation to its width. The roof was severely damaged in a German daylight air raid in the afternoon of 3 August 1942〔Hitches, M - Steam Around Middlesbrough (Amberley Publishing, 2014) p. 69〕 and eventually removed in 1954, to be replaced by the current design over the concourse and platforms.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Railway Architecture of North East England : Middlesbrough Station )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Middlesbrough railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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