When you come to Hull whether it's to live long term or just stay a few days, there's a good chance you are coming by train. From there tourists can get anywhere in the mainland UK that you'd like to go from London to Scotland. (I've taken both trips myself!) The station was originally built nearly two hundred years ago in 1848 to better allow passenger travel to all of the other major cities as the only other station at the time, the Manor House Street Station was mostly used for freight and created a less comfortable or accessible experience customers who they themselves were the cargo.
It also had a hotel built beside it for weary travelers to spend their nights uncreatively named "Station Hotel" which once served Queen Victoria on one of her visits to the city. However in 1990, the interior went up in flames and that history was lost.
The city continued to develop around the Hull Paragon Interchange and in the year 2000 developments such as the St Stephens Shopping Centre which we will talk about in the near future were given the green light and the station underwent a facelift to introduce a new entrance and allow it to face towards and interact with the growing city with The Queen herself and the Duke of Edinburgh coming to unveil a plaque to commemorate the official re-opening in 2009.
The station continues to be redeveloped and modernized as the city becomes more and more exciting for people from all around the world to come and see, but the historical core and much of the exterior architecture remains the same as when it was when its platforms first opened so long ago. I hope you enjoyed learning a little bit of history of this great city and I hope to see you departing a train here soon!
- Dakota Morrill
Padoo Homes
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