Phillips & Curry Ltd have recently completed major external fabric repairs to Gobowen Railway Station Buildings. The project has been resounding success and as such has been entered into the finals for the Prestigious National Heritage Railway Awards 2025.
The Station was built between 1846 and 1848 by the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway in a notable Florentine (or Italianate) style with stucco facing and a small turret. The building was designed by the local renowned architect, Thomas Manwaring Penson who was also responsible for the design of other notable railway buildings in Shrewsbury and Chester and several fine 1800s Churches in the Oswestry area.
In 2005 the station had a poorly executed fabric repairs project in which the inappropriate works were quickly becoming un done which lead the new owner ,The Gobowen Railway Building Trust to start attracting the funding to execute a m ore serious and sensitive repair project.
In 2024 Phillips & Curry ltd secured the tender external fabric repairs to restore the building back to its original condition the works comprised of.
· Design and installation of a structural scaffold, installed in compliance and collaboration with network rail night time live rail closures over 2 weekends.
· Re roofing the main station high level and turret roofs in reclaimed Welsh slates Along with lead gutter replacement and repair.
· Specialized Doff high temperature steam removal of plastic paint from all the external walls.
·Removal and replacement of 50 per cent of the defective Roman cement rendering
· Sympathetically Re cast/ repair all the defective stucco friezes, window/door, corbels hood molds and cast architraves.
· Overhaul to all of the originals sash windows, with splice repairs, glazing and sash repairs.
· Redecorate the whole of the building using Keim on the roman cement render and railway specified gloss system to the windows, all colours used to match the original Great Western railway Colours.
Before & After
