Charles Trubshaw FRIBA (1840 – 15 February 1917) was an architect specifically associated with railway buildings on the London and North Western Railway and

Midland Railway The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844. The Midland was one of the largest railway companies in Britain in the early 20th century, and the largest employer in Derby, where it had its headquarters. It ama ...

lines.

Career

He trained as an architect in the office of his father, also Charles Trubshaw (1811–1862), a civil engineer and also

county surveyor A county surveyor is a public official in the United Kingdom and the United States. United Kingdom Webb & Webb describe the increasing chaos that began to prevail within this same period in field of county surveying in England and Wales, with c ...

for Staffordshire.Midland Hotel, Bradford
Charles Trubshaw, Architect He was appointed Associate of the

Royal Institute of British Architects The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its royal charter granted in 1837, three supp ...

on 6 February 1864, and Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects on 6 November 1882. He was on the engineering and architectural staff of the London and North Western Railway 1864–1874. He was then architect to the Northern Division of the

from 1874. On the death of John Holloway Sanders in 1884 he became chief architect to the

, and held this position until 1905.

Work

Kettering railway station Kettering railway station serves the town of Kettering in Northamptonshire, England. It lies south-west of the town centre, on the Midland Main Line, north of London St. Pancras. History The station was opened in May 1857 by the Midland ...

* Shipley railway station *

Skipton railway station Skipton railway station is a Grade II listed station which serves the town of Skipton in North Yorkshire, England on the Airedale Line, which gives Skipton access to destinations such as Leeds, Bradford, Carlisle, Lancaster and Morecambe. The ...

Hellifield railway station Hellifield is a railway station on the Bentham Line, which runs between and via . The station, situated north-west of Leeds, serves the village of Hellifield, Craven in North Yorkshire, England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by N ...

1880 * Kimberley West railway station 1882Kimberley Town Council
Committee Minutes 2009
Bennerley * Keighley railway station 1883–1885 *

Midland Hotel, Bradford The Midland Hotel is a 90- bedroom three- star Victorian hotel in Bradford city centre, owned and managed by London-based Peel Hotels. The architect was Charles Trubshaw, who was contracted to design many railway stations for Midland Railway ...

1885–1890 * Oakhurst House,

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...

1888 Enlargement *

Bradford Forster Square railway station Bradford Forster Square railway station serves Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The majority of services to/from the railway station use Class 333 electrified trains operated by Northern Trains, on the Airedale Line to Skipton, the Whar ...

1890 * Bingley railway station 1892 *

Derby railway station Derby railway station (, also known as Derby Midland) is a main line railway station serving the city of Derby in Derbyshire, England. Owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway, the station is also used by CrossCountry services ...

1893 – extensions (demolished)Marcus Binney, 'Crunch time at Derby', ''Country Life'', 8 September 1983, 631 *Midland Railway Institute, Derby 1894 *

Leicester railway station Leicester railway station (formerly Leicester Campbell Street and Leicester London Road) is a mainline railway station in the city of Leicester in Leicestershire, England. The station is managed by East Midlands Railway and owned by Network Rai ...

1892–1894 * Langley Mill railway station 1895 *

Midland Hotel, Manchester The Midland Hotel Manchester is a grand hotel in Manchester, England. Opened in 1903, it was built by the Midland Railway to serve Manchester Central railway station, its northern terminus for its rail services to London St Pancras. It faces on ...

1898 – 1903 * Sheffield station 1905 enlargement

References

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1840 births 1917 deaths 19th-century English architects British railway architects Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects Midland Railway people London and North Western Railway people Architects from Staffordshire Associates of the Royal Institute of British Architects {{UK-architect-stub