32 Grand Old Railway Hotels Left Vacant Along Forgotten Routes

23. The New Midland Hotel (Morecambe, UK): Art Deco Revival on the Coast

This iconic Art Deco hotel, opened in 1933, was built by the London Midland and Scottish Railway to cater to fashionable holidaymakers by the seaside. Its sleek design and luxury amenities promised a glamorous escape. However, as rail tourism waned, the hotel fell into severe disrepair, standing derelict for decades as a poignant symbol of faded seaside glory. Its recent, painstaking restoration has brought back its modernist splendor, but the ghostly echoes of its long neglect and the golden age it once represented are still palpable within its elegant, sun-drenched halls.