William Robert Headley

Coventry railway station 1959-62

Coventry railway station platform buildings and shelters in 1962

William Robert Headley was an architect who is best known for his modernist railway stations for the London Midland Region of British Railways in the early 1960s.

Headley joined the railway service in 1947, ^[1] achieved his diploma of the Architectural Association in 1948 and became architect for the London Midland region of British railways. He resigned his position with British Railways and was taken into partnership with Messrs Gollins, Melvin, Ward and Partners on 1 January 1963. ^[2] He gave up his partnership in 1989. ^[3]

Works

• Manchester Piccadilly railway station 1958-60 (rebuilding)
• Wilmslow signal box 1959 ^[4]
• East Didsbury railway station 1959
• Coventry railway station 1959-62 ^[5] with project architect Derrick Shorten
• Manchester Oxford Road railway station 1960. ^[6] (with Max Clendinning)
• Crewe railway station 1960
• Manchester new power signal box 1960
• St Helens Central railway station 1960-61 ^[7] (replaced in 2007)
• Stafford railway station 1961-62 ^[8]
• Chelford railway station 1960 ^[9]
• Euston railway station 1962-68 (with Ray Moorcroft)
• New Street station signal box 1964-65 ^[10] (with Bicknell & Hamilton)

References

1. Pearson, Arthur (1964). the Railways and the Nation. G. Allen & Unwin. p. 106.
2. "Mr. W.R. Headley". RIBA Journal. 70: 83. 1 January 1963.
3. "No. 51720". The London Gazette . 2 May 1989. p. 5255.
4. "Wilmslow Signal Box". Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. 109: 437. 1960.
5. Burman, Peter; Stratton, Michael (2000). Conserving the Railway Heritage. Taylor and Francis. p. 126. ISBN   9781136744938.
6. Parkinson-Bailey, John (2000). Manchester: An Architectural History. Manchester University Press. p. 559. ISBN   9780719056062.
7. Pevsner, Nikolaus; Pollard, Richard; Sharples, Joseph (2006). Lancashire: Liverpool and the Southwest. Yale University Press. p. 333. ISBN   9780300109108.
8. Pevsner, Nikolaus (2000). The Buildings of England: Staffordshire. Yale University Press. p. 244. ISBN   9780300096460.
9. Pevsner, Nikolaus; Hubbard, Edward (1971). The Buildings of England: Cheshire. Yale University Press. p. 130. ISBN   9780300095883.
10. Foster, Andy (2005). Birmingham. Yale University Press. p. 207. ISBN   9780300107319.