{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}} {{Use British English|date=April 2017}} [[File:Wolverhampton station entrance.jpg|thumb|Wolverhampton railway station of 1964-67]] [[File:EustonStation,LONDON.jpg|thumb|The passenger hall of Euston railway station from 1966-68]] thumb|Rail House, Crewe, 1967-68 '''Roy L Moorcroft''' FRIBA was chief architect for British Rail from 1977, and is best known for his work on the controversial passenger hall of Euston railway station.
==Career== Moorcroft started with British Rail as an architect in the London Midland Region, working with William Robert Headley. He succeeded Bernard Kaukas as Chief Architect to British Rail in 1977, when Kaukas was appointed Director of Environment.
==Works== *Esso Petroleum Company, Davies Street, London. 1954 (modernisation) *Manchester Piccadilly railway station 1959-64<ref>{{cite book |last=Pevsner |first=Nikolaus |date=1969 |title=The Buildings of England. South Lancashire |url= |location= |publisher=Yale University Press |page=288 |isbn=0140710361 |author-link= }}</ref> *Railway hostel, Tyseley, Birmingham 1962 *Euston railway station passenger hall, London 1966-68 with William Robert Headley<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hibbert |first1=Christopher |authorlink1 = Christopher Hibbert|last2=Weinreb |first2=Ben |authorlink2 = Ben Weinreb|last3=Keay |first3=Julia |last4=Keay |first4=John |authorlink4 = John Keay|date=23 March 2010 |title=The London Encyclopaedia |url= |location= |publisher=Pan Macmillan |page=278 |isbn=9781405049252 |author-link= }}</ref> *Birmingham New Street Signal Box, Birmingham 1966 with John Bicknell and Paul Hamilton (Grade II listed)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Birmingham New Street Signal Box, Non Civil Parish - 1117383 {{!}} Historic England |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/ |access-date=2026-01-16 |website=historicengland.org.uk |language=en}}</ref> *King's Cross railway station, London 1963-68 (rebuilding) *Wolverhampton railway station 1964-67<ref>{{cite book |last=Pevsner |first=Nikolaus |date=1974 |title=The Buildings of England. Staffordshire |url= |location= |publisher=Penguin Books |page=317 |isbn=0140710469 |author-link= }}</ref> *Northampton railway station 1965-66 (rebuilding) *Rail House, Crewe 1967-68 (with Frederick Francis Charles Curtis)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pevsner |first1=Nikolaus |last2=Hubbard |first2=Edward |date=1971 |title=The Buildings of England. Cheshire |url= |location= |publisher=Yale University Press |page=190 |isbn=9780300095883 |author-link= }}</ref> *Birmingham International railway station 1976 {{Incomplete list|date=January 2017}}
==Publications== *Aspects of Railway Architecture 1985<ref>{{cite book |last1=Clarke |first1=Linda |last2=Moorcroft |first2=Ray |date=1985 |title=Aspects of Railway Architecture |url= |location= |publisher=British Railways Board |page=|isbn= |author-link= }}</ref>
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