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Hull Paragon Interchange is a major transportation complex in the city of Kingston upon Hull (usually known as Hull), England. This incorporates the city's railway station, which is operated by First TransPennine Express, who provide train services along with Northern Rail, First Hull Trains and National Express East Coast. The original station opened in 1840. The complex has undergone renovation in conjunction with the adjacent St Stephens commercial development to create an integrated transport hub that was opened on 16 September 2007.
As part of this improvement Paragon House, a former area headquarters of British Rail's North-Eastern region, built across the front of the station in the early 1960s but empty and increasingly dilapidated since the 1980s, has been demolished.
The station was used as a location in the film Clockwise with John Cleese.
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Hull Paragon Interchange is a major transportation complex in the city of Kingston upon Hull (usually known as Hull), England. This incorporates the city's railway station, which is operated by First TransPennine Express, who provide train services along with Northern Rail, First Hull Trains and National Express East Coast. The original station opened in 1840. The complex has undergone renovation in conjunction with the adjacent St Stephens commercial development to create an integrated transport hub that was opened on 16 September 2007.
As part of this improvement Paragon House, a former area headquarters of British Rail's North-Eastern region, built across the front of the station in the early 1960s but empty and increasingly dilapidated since the 1980s, has been demolished.
The station was used as a location in the film Clockwise with John Cleese. It also featured heavily in an early episode of Agatha Christie's Poirot entitled 'The Plymouth Express' (from Poirot's Early Cases), made by LWT and starring David Suchet.
History
The station was originally opened by the York and North Midland Railway as Hull Paragon Street station on 8 May 1848 as a centrally-located railway terminal for Hull, with a three-bay pitched-roof trainshed. The adjacent hotel (named the Royal Station Hotel after a stay by Queen Victoria, but now renamed the Royal Hotel despite its continuing physical integration with the station) was added in 1851. The Y&NMR subsequently became part of the North Eastern Railway, created in 1854 by merger with other railway companies. The NER changed the station name to Hull Paragon. Half a century later the NER rebuilt and greatly expanded the station to create the last of Britain's great barrel-vaulted glass-and-iron railway stations, being reopened in 1904 with a five-bay trainshed (see picture above right) and two additional barrel vault bays at right angles covering the concourse (see picture below right).
The Royal Station Hotel was subsequently enlarged in a style somewhat unsympathetic with the elegant and coherent appearance of the original 1851 building, this also necessitating some shortening of the adjacent main station entrance portico which had been part of the 1904 station rebuild and extension. The hotel was significantly damaged in a fire and then rebuilt in 1990. This portico was swept away completely in the early 1960s to be replaced by Paragon House, a typical 1960s concrete and glass structure, which in turn has been demolished in 2007, after years of dereliction, as part of the adaption of the station to provide an integrated public transport interchange (see below).
The station has survived the bombing of two world wars and subsequent decades of demolition and redevelopment which has swept away much of Hull's architectural heritage. It has recently been modified to provide a multimodal transport interchange incorporating a new central bus station, in conjunction with the new St Stephen's shopping and other development on adjacent land. The transport interchange was opened on 16 September 2007.
The new interchange was officially opened by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh when they unveiled a plaque on 5 March 2009 after arriving at the station on the Royal Train.
First TransPennine Express were awarded Station Excellence Of The Year at the HSBC Rail Business Awards 2007 for the interchange.
Services
The typical Monday-Friday off-peak service from Hull Paragon is:
First Hull Trains
- 7 trains a day to London King's Cross, of which:
- 1 calls at Brough, Howden, Selby, Doncaster and Grantham
- 1 calls at Brough, Howden, Selby, Doncaster, Grantham and Stevenage (to set down only)
- 2 call at Brough, Howden, Selby, Doncaster, Retford, Grantham and Stevenage (to set down only)
- 3 call at Brough, Howden, Selby, Doncaster, Retford and Grantham
First TransPennine Express
National Express East Coast
- 1 train per day to London King's Cross, calling at:
Northern Rail
- 1 train per hour to Bridlington (slow), calling at:
- 1 train per hour to Bridlington or Scarborough (fast), calling at:
- 1 train per hour to Doncaster, calling at:
- 1 train per hour to Sheffield, calling at:
- Brough, Goole, Doncaster and Meadowhall
- 1 train per 2 hours to York, of which:
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