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stations built in that period, working with John Wilson as engineer. In 1882 he was promoted to Head of the Architects' Department. In 1883 Wilson resigned from the firm to join the GER as chief engineer and Ashbee followed him. as the head of the architectural department of the GER from 1883, a
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was one of only two stations outside Essex to be built in this style. The brick and gables often featured also on the cottages built close to stations for their staff.
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estate and included a suite of Tudor-style royal reception and retiring rooms as well as a spacious carriage dock and a small gasworks, which lit the entire station.
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His smaller stations of the 1890s were however plainer in style, although red brick remained a feature, while other stations of this decade, such as
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Ashbee was responsible for many stations on the Great Eastern Railway, some of which are now listed buildings. His more notable works include:
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Following his appointment to the GER in 1883 Ashbee started to adopt the "Domestic Revival" style of architecture which had been used by the
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Most of the original Ashbee buildings on this line were demolished in 1968, although some parts of Burnham and Southminster remain:
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station, built in 1884–6 in a "Free Renaissance" style. He later worked with John Wilson as the architect for the 1894 expansion of
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on its new lines in Sussex in the early 1880s. His earliest work in this style was the Up Side at
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The son of John Ashbee, who was the first stationmaster of the Great Western station at
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position he held until 1916. His major early work after appointment was the elaborate
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The stations on this line are still substantially as built by Ashbee:
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as an architect to Alfred Maberley, the Diocesan Surveyor for
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He became an associate in 1881 and a fellow in 1890 of the
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Associates of the Royal Institute of British Architects
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Directory of British Architects 1834-1914: Vol 1 (A-K)
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Index

railway
architect
stations
Great Eastern Railway
Liverpool Street Station

Gloucester
articled
Gloucester
Edward Wilson & Co
Liverpool Street Station
Great Eastern Railway
Norwich Thorpe
Liverpool Street Station
neo Tudor style
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
Ingatestone railway station
Wivenhoe
Frinton
Shenfield to Southend Line
Crouch Valley Line
Trimley railway station

Chappel
Buckhurst Hill
Yarmouth–Lowestoft Line
Fairlop Loop

Wolferton station
Sandringham

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