Sidetracked - Stoke-on-Trent Traditional Geocache
Sidetracked - Stoke-on-Trent
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A nice easy micro but beware stealth will be required as it is a
very very busy place
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The very fine Victorian station buildings were opened October 9,
1848. The other buildings located in Winton Square, including the
North Stafford hotel, were opened in June 1849. All these buildings
were to the design of H.A. Hunt of London, done in an architectural
style referred to as ‘robust Jacobean manor-house’ [1]. The station
was built by the North Staffordshire Railway Company and, until the
amalgamation of 1923, housed the Company's Boardroom and its
principal offices. Stoke-on-Trent has always been and still is the
hub of North Staffordshire's passenger train service Stoke-on-Trent
station is managed by Virgin Trains. It has three passenger
platforms, and one central through line without a platform. The
entrance to the station is from Winton Square, opposite the North
Stafford Hotel, into a large modern booking hall with an enquiry
office, quick ticket machines, an HSBC cashpoint and level access
to platform 1 from which all southbound and eastbound trains
normally depart. On this platform are the main buildings,
refreshment room and bar, a magazine and book stall, free
CCTV-covered cycle-locking racks, free toilets for both ladies and
gentlemen, a first class lounge, a post box, and offices for the
British Transport Police. There is both a tiled passenger subway
and a passenger operated lift connecting platform 1 with platforms
2 and 3. Northbound trains usually depart from platform 2, which
has a ladies' waiting room with toilets, and gentlemen's toilets.
Platform 3 is a short bay platform used by some regional trains to
Manchester Piccadilly. The station building retains much of its
mid-Victorian character, including a classic glazed roof that spans
the platforms, and is now a Grade II* listed building. A war
memorial, with brass nameplates naming local men who fell during
the wars, discreetly flanks the entrance to platform 1.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Raq bs Oneevre