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Little has changed since the Grade-II listed Oxford Road station was last revamped back in 1960.

It still sits atop the hill like some great Art Deco fortress, it still smells the same and you still need your big coat on the wind tunnel platforms - even in summer. But at some point soon, it will all look very different.

The powers that be have grand plans to transform the station as well as the former Cornerhouse and Screen One buildings - all of which sit on a prominent corner of Oxford Road and Whitworth Street West.

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The station is due for a major overhaul, which could see a tower crane plonked on the site of the former Screen One aka The Tatler Cinema.

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