Manchester’s Victoria railway station is to be officially reopened later following a £44m upgrade.
The modernisation project included a new £20m roof and restoration of the station’s period features.
Run by Network Rail, the project included a tram stop with four new platforms and three new tracks that reopened in February.
It comes after Victoria was labelled Britain’s “worst station” in a 2009 Department for Transport report.
The roof had leaked since 1996 after it sustained damaged when a bomb, believed to have been planted by the IRA, exploded in the city centre.
Victoria station first opened in January 1844.
