Ray L Moorcroft FRIBA was chief architect for

British Rail British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...

from 1977, and is best known for his work on the passenger hall of

Euston railway station Euston railway station ( ; also known as London Euston) is a central London railway terminus in the London Borough of Camden, managed by Network Rail. It is the southern terminus of the West Coast Main Line, the UK's busiest inter-city railw ...

Career

Moorcroft started with

as an architect in the London Midland Region, working with William Robert Headley. He succeeded Bernard Kaukas as Chief Architect to British Rail in 1977, when Kaukas was appointed Director of Environment.

Works

*Esso Petroleum Company, Davies Street, London. 1954 (modernisation) *

Manchester Piccadilly railway station Manchester Piccadilly is the principal railway station in Manchester, England. Opened as Store Street in 1842, it was renamed Manchester London Road in 1847 and became Manchester Piccadilly in 1960. Located to the south-east of Manchester city ...

1959-64 *Railway hostel, Tyseley, Birmingham 1962 *

passenger hall 1966-68 with William Robert Headley * King's Cross railway station 1963-68 (rebuilding) *

Wolverhampton railway station Wolverhampton railway station in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England is on the Birmingham Loop of the West Coast Main Line. It is served by Avanti West Coast, CrossCountry, Transport for Wales and West Midlands Trains services, and was hist ...

1964-67 *

Northampton railway station Northampton railway station serves the county town of Northampton in England. It is on the Northampton Loop of the West Coast Main Line. The station is served by West Midlands Trains services southbound to London Euston and northbound to Birm ...

1965-66 (rebuilding) *Rail House, Crewe 1967-68 (with

Frederick Francis Charles Curtis Frederick Francis Charles Curtis FRIBA (9 August 1903 – 16 June 1975) was the first chief architect for British Railways from 1948. Career Curtis was born on 9th August, 1903, at Frankfurt-on-Main. His father, Francis Curtis, was a lecture ...

) *

Birmingham International railway station Birmingham International is a railway station located in Solihull in the West Midlands, to the east of the city of Birmingham, England. The station is on the Rugby–Birmingham–Stafford Line 14 km (8½ miles) east of Birmingham New Street ...

1976

Publications

*Aspects of Railway Architecture 1985

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Moorcroft 20th-century English architects British railway architects British Rail people Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects