Manchester+Central+Railway+Station

This building now houses an exhibition and conference centre called Manchester Central. Since its construction between 1875 and 1880 and all the way up ti 1969 it served as one of Manchester's main railway terminals. The building is a classical station building with a large single span roof. Railways were important during the early globalisation of the world. Manchester is not a seaport. They obviously had their canals, but trains were also becoming a common phenomenon through industrialization and globalisational.

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