What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Frome railway station designed by T. R. Hannaford, an assistant to I. K. Brunel, and opened on 7 October 1850. This timber construction is largely unaltered and a rare example of a Brunellian through train shed still used for its original purpose. Listed Grade II. Recorded plaque organisation: Frome Society for Local Study.
T. R. Hannaford was an assistant to the renowned engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and designed Frome railway station, which remains a notable example of early railway architecture still in use today.
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