Bank Top Railway Station (Main Building)

Bank Top Railway Station is a railway station built in 1887 by William Bell. It features an imposing design with some Italianate details. The tall central clock tower has four stages and a crested pyramidal roof. The building is constructed of red brick with abundant stone dressings. On either side of the entrance concourse are two-bay flanking sections, each containing a wide segmental arch and a narrow round-arched opening. The classical trim includes pilasters, an entablature, and stone architraves around the openings. Further back, there are four-bay sections that have a similar architectural treatment, with shaped gable ends on the returns. Inside, the station has an iron-framed barrelled roof supported by pierced braces resting on stone corbels. Heavy iron screens surround the stairways leading down to the train shed, which is long and slightly curved, featuring a similar iron-framed roof with two spans. The braces in the train shed rest on cast-iron quasi-Corinthian columns in the center, and the roofs are partly glazed.