Manchester Victoria Offices and Underground Tour - 26th April 2024

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Participants queue up to gain entrance to the 'OFFICES' - see sign high above the entrance door, leading to the three floors and roof above the ticket office.<br>[© Liz Moralee & Tim Hall-Smith 2024]	Original tiles by the stairs (as on each floor level), mostly painted over, they are to be restored.<br>[&copy; Liz Moralee & Tim Hall-Smith 2024]	First floor, the large room at the Shudehill tram stop end, note the building curves slightly as does the end wall, (there were several large rooms).<br>[&copy; Liz Moralee & Tim Hall-Smith 2024]	The pair of safes on the first floor.<br>[&copy; Liz Moralee & Tim Hall-Smith 2024]	A side room off the main corridor on the first floor.<br>[&copy; Liz Moralee & Tim Hall-Smith 2024]	A telecoms box with the wires cut.<br>[&copy; Liz Moralee & Tim Hall-Smith 2024]	The lift housing on the second floor, note the original tiles in the background, some now protected.<br>[&copy; Liz Moralee & Tim Hall-Smith 2024]
Manchester Victoria gateline and two remaining bay platforms (once there were 11) from the second floor, looking northeast towards Miles Platting.<br>[&copy; Liz Moralee & Tim Hall-Smith 2024]	Sign at the top of the stairs on the third floor.<br>[© Liz Moralee & Tim Hall-Smith 2024]	Dismantled skylight parts at the Shudehill end of the third floor.<br>[&copy; Liz Moralee & Tim Hall-Smith 2024]	The third floor room where the signalling school model railway was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv4HxQNC_NA is a video (1¾ minutes). Note the exposed riveted 'battleship' like metal roof support beams.<br>[© John Hampson, 2024]	Third Floor plan thanks to Adam Turner.	the Signalling School.	The final flight of steps up to the roof.<br>[&copy; Liz Moralee & Tim Hall-Smith 2024]
The rear of Manchester Victoria clock with flagpole.<br>[&copy; Liz Moralee & Tim Hall-Smith 2024]	The clock mechanism.<br>[&copy; Liz Moralee & Tim Hall-Smith 2024]	The roof, looking towards the Shudehill tram stop end.<br>[&copy; Liz Moralee & Tim Hall-Smith 2024]	In the other direction towards P3-6, participants could explore this section.<br>[&copy; Liz Moralee & Tim Hall-Smith 2024]	The British Railways Staff Association Bar (in very poor lighting conditions), which closed in 1992.<br>[&copy; Liz Moralee & Tim Hall-Smith 2024]	The dumb waiter.<br>[&copy; Liz Moralee & Tim Hall-Smith 2024]	''Photogenic'' pipework in the BRSA storeroom.<br>[&copy; Liz Moralee & Tim Hall-Smith 2024]
A side room (with a light!) off Walkers Undercroft area and more pipes!<br>[&copy; Liz Moralee & Tim Hall-Smith 2024]	Looking down the tunnel in the opposite direction, the cab of Pacer142059 used to lean against the wall on the right.<br>[&copy; Liz Moralee & Tim Hall-Smith 2024]	The end...<br>[© Liz Moralee & Tim Hall-Smith 2024]