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William Robert Headley was an architect who is best known for his

modernist Modernism is both a philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new forms of art, philosophy, an ...

railway stations for the

London Midland Region of British Railways The London Midland Region (LMR) was one of the six regions created on the formation of the nationalised British Railways (BR), and initially consisted of ex-London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) lines in England, Wales and Northern Irela ...

in the early 1960s. He joined railway service in 1947, 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. He gave up his partnership in 1989.

Works

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 ...

1958-60 (rebuilding) *Wilmslow signal box 1959 *

Coventry railway station Coventry railway station is the main railway station serving the city of Coventry, West Midlands, England. The station is on the Birmingham loop of the West Coast Main Line (WCML); it is also located at the centre of a junction where the li ...

1959-62 with project architect Derrick Shorten *

Manchester Oxford Road railway station Manchester Oxford Road railway station is a railway station in Manchester, England, at the junction of Whitworth Street West and Oxford Street. It opened in 1849 and was rebuilt in 1960. It is the second busiest of the four stations in Manche ...

1960. (with

Max Clendinning Max Clendinning (26 September 1924 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland – 4 June 2020) was an architect and interior designer. Clendinning is best known for his 1965 design of the "slot-together but sturdy looking" Maxima chair, inspired in par ...

) *

Crewe railway station Crewe railway station is a railway station in Crewe, Cheshire, England. It opened in 1837 and is one of the most historically significant railway stations in the world.St Helens Central railway station 1960-61 (replaced in 2007) *

Stafford railway station Stafford railway station is a major interchange railway station in Stafford, Staffordshire, England, and is the second busiest railway station in Staffordshire, after Stoke-on-Trent. The station serves the county town, as well as surrounding vi ...

1961-62 *

Chelford railway station Chelford railway station serves the village of Chelford in Cheshire, England. The station is north of Crewe on the Crewe to Manchester Line Crewe () is a railway town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshi ...

1960 *

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 ...

1962-68 (with Ray Moorcroft) *New Street station signal box 1964-65 (with Bicknell & Hamilton) *

East Didsbury railway station East Didsbury is a suburban railway station in south Manchester, England. On the Styal Line between Longsight (Slade Lane Junction) and Wilmslow, it is served by - and trains operated by Northern Trains, - services operated by Transport for ...

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