Chapter 13Brief Encounter
Lime Street Station, Liverpool, is a main line terminus station, originally opened to the general public in 1836. In keeping with the grand designs being applied to their station buildings by the early railway companies, the station was fronted by a magnificent reproduction of a French Château, formerly the North Western Hotel and now serving as accommodation for students at Liverpool's John Moores University. The whole station edifice stands as a magnificent testament to the ingenuity and design of the Victorian age, with its vast iron and glass roofs sweeping in a graceful arch over the station's nine platforms.
Two days after the murders however, the Burger King on the station concourse found itself playing host to a couple with no thoughts whatsoever for the
