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May I start with this ugly, cheap slab of nasty plastic roofing and concrete? And it's a terminus for fuck's sake.

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Debden on the Central Line.

I've seen concentration camps with less razor-wire.


That went up in 1997 when I was at Epping Forest College. It was because of the sheer amount of students that were vaulting the fences to avoid paying!
 
Birmingham New Street has no peer in this category.

I've never seen it from the outside. Inside feels like a underground warren occuppied by ratpeople.


I give you Dundee:

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It's only architectural merit being it reflects some trees.
 
Nah, I quite like East Croydon, as modern stations go it's pretty good.
 
Anyone who says it's anything other than New St clearly hasn't been there.

It's a shithole with no redeeming feature whatsoever, and from what I can see the plans to renovate it will make fuck all difference as they're just making the concourse a bit nicer, the fundamental problems with the design of the platforms aren't being addressed.
 
All those little stations between Sutton and Wimbledon on the Thameslink are pretty bad however Morden South is the worst. Although you do now have the Mosque which at least is interesting to look at

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Not spectacular, tbh. And that pavement is far too narrow!
It probably looked better without all those ugly bus shelters racked up in front of the station.

Euston is spectacularly ugly too, especially considering what it once looked like.

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I've never seen it from the outside. Inside feels like a underground warren occuppied by ratpeople.


I give you Dundee:

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It's only architectural merit being it reflects some trees.

Birmingham New St for me too. :(

Do you remember Dundee in its pre-improvement 70's glory?

Grim as fuck IMO. :(



Corrour Station always struck me as a wee bit bleak:

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Unmanned suburban stations covered in graffiti and piss don't count, because there's 100's of the fuckers :)

This thread should be about the shittiness:importance ratio. Which is why New Street wins. Busiest station outside of London and a complete dump compared to any of them (even Euston)
 
Unmanned suburban stations covered in graffiti and piss don't count, because there's 100's of the fuckers :)

This thread should be about the shittiness:importance ratio. Which is why New Street wins. Busiest station outside of London and a complete dump compared to any of them (even Euston)

Good point - that does discount all the Thameslink ones (and Mitcham Junction) but they are kind of glorified bus shlters to be honest so it is a bit unfair to include them
 
Which is why New Street wins. Busiest station outside of London and a complete dump compared to any of them (even Euston)

I agree. Euston is soulless and not particularly pleasant to look at, but at least it feels fairly spacious and light, unlike the gloom and diesel fumes of New Street.
 
I've never seen it from the outside.

There's not much to see outside, the station is all underneath a shopping centre.

It's a shithole with no redeeming feature whatsoever, and from what I can see the plans to renovate it will make fuck all difference as they're just making the concourse a bit nicer, the fundamental problems with the design of the platforms aren't being addressed.

Changing the platforms is gonna be a disruption and almost impossible considering where they are I would've thought.

This is what the outsides going to be like apparently (at moment it's not disimilar to that pic of London Bridge, but with taxis instead of buses)

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Oxford Station - thought it was going to be a pretty "Railway Children" style place but is horribly plastic inside with hardly anywhere to get a drink

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It probably looked better without all those ugly bus shelters racked up in front of the station.

Euston is spectacularly ugly too, especially considering what it once looked like.

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Wow! What a loss. I didn't know that other London stations were grand (other than St Pancras, I mean). Was it bombed, do we know? Or did they actually decide to get rid of it?
 
Changing the platforms is gonna be a disruption and almost impossible considering where they are I would've thought

Yeah, the problem is the shopping centre on top of it. To do anything meaningful to the place they need to get rid of it, which won't happen in a million years.
 
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