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 rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. Originally a trading brand of the Railway Executive of the British Transport Comm ...

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

Euston railway station Euston railway station ( ; or London Euston) is a major London station group, central London railway terminus and Euston tube station, connected London Underground station managed by Network Rail in the London Borough of Camden. It is the sout ...

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 main railway station of the city of Manchester, in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, England. Opened originally as Store Street in 1842, it was renamed Manchester London Road in 1847 and became Manchest ...

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 station is a step-free access regional interchange railway station situated in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England on the Birmingham Loop of the West Coast Main Line. The station is the 4th busiest in the West Midlands region ...

1964-67 * Northampton railway station 1965-66 (rebuilding) *Rail House, Crewe 1967-68 (with Frederick Francis Charles Curtis) *

Birmingham International railway station Birmingham International is a railway station in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands of England, just east of Birmingham. It is on the Rugby–Birmingham–Stafford line east of Birmingham New Stree ...

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