Hebden Bridge station (and other lovely railway stations)
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chieftain
Mega Gammon
I thought about you lot and this thread when i was outside Letchworth Garden City today..
Then I forgot to take the all-important pic of the platform.
This is what it looks like at night! it an Ok station
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Andy the Don
Wise men say only fools..
A monuement to the 1930's middle class suburb. Whisking hubby up to the city.
A monuement to the 1930's middle class suburb. Whisking hubby up to the city.
I think it's more a monument to 1930's quasi-Mussolini worship, actually. Not bad for all that - it used to have interesting murals inside which shamefully Railtrack simply painted over about 5-8 years ago.
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hiraethified
It's in the French pavilion style with oeil de bouefs and a fishscale roof, doncha know!
I'll match your Slough and raise you a Grange Over Sands:
http://www.urban75.org/photos/lake-district/grange-over-sands-station.html
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Where is Wemyss?
It's on the coast west of Glasgow.
It was an interchange for the Clyde Steamers. Still is to some extent I think.
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hiraethified
Some modern architects should be made to lick those girders until they understand the grace and beauty of their design.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Most architects would give an arm and a leg to be given the budget and free reign to design something equivalent.
It's the people who commission them, or rather fail to commission them, that should be made to lick the girders. Pay peanuts and get monkeys etc.
The Jubilee line extension being the obvious example of a project where the design of the stations was considered to have some value in itself.
It would be nice if the same approach would be applied to, say, Crossrail.
mattie
missing in inaction
Speer's Brutalist ethos lives on:
Which, ironically, isn't the only aspect of that regime Harlow pays homage to.
In all honesty, I actually quite liked Harlow Station when it was reasonably original and reasonably well-maintained, there was a definite 50s feel to the place. But, by God, they don't age well.
Which, ironically, isn't the only aspect of that regime Harlow pays homage to.
In all honesty, I actually quite liked Harlow Station when it was reasonably original and reasonably well-maintained, there was a definite 50s feel to the place. But, by God, they don't age well.
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hiraethified
Sure, but some designs - where presumably there was sufficient cash slopping about - have been unforgivably ugly. Birmingham New Street springs to mind. And Euston. Hideous the pair of them, and on a ghastly large scale.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Albert Speer wasn't a Brutalist.
He was a Classicist. A rather stripped down version, but very much modelled on Roman/Greek precedents.
mattie
missing in inaction
I was aiming at whoever designed the bunkers in France/Channel Islands.
Cribynkle
squawk
I didn't know - thank you for the education
Grange Over Sands is v pretty - but Slough's roof is still prettier
teuchter
je suis teuchter
I don't think anywhere on the Settle and Carlisle line has been mentioned yet, which is something of an omission. I traveled along it yesterday, on the way back down from Scotland, and very beautiful it was too, on a bright, frosty morning. All of the intermediate stations are built as variations on a standard design, and most of them have been well renovated since the line almost fell into disuse in the 70s and 80s. Some of the buildings are now (at least partly) private houses.
I stopped off at Ribblehead (near to the famous viaduct). The station is very well kept, as well as being in quite a stunning location. Part of it homes a museum run by The Settle-Carlisle Railway Trust. The rest of it is a private home, one of the residents of which very kindly agreed to look after my luggage for a few hours while I went for a walk nearby.
It also has an enclosed waiting room, which was welcome whilst waiting for an onward train on a rather cold evening:
There is even a resident ginger cat, slightly tubby and very friendly as all good station cats should be.
I stopped off at Ribblehead (near to the famous viaduct). The station is very well kept, as well as being in quite a stunning location. Part of it homes a museum run by The Settle-Carlisle Railway Trust. The rest of it is a private home, one of the residents of which very kindly agreed to look after my luggage for a few hours while I went for a walk nearby.
It also has an enclosed waiting room, which was welcome whilst waiting for an onward train on a rather cold evening:
There is even a resident ginger cat, slightly tubby and very friendly as all good station cats should be.
Ribblehead Viaduct is
I had the misfortune to spend an hour at Warrington Bank Quay station recently. Grim. Nothing near by and right next to a mahoosive factory. Plus the local trains look like shit buses.
a big fuck off to the member of Virgin train crew who didn't turn up for work @ Euston and made me miss my connection to Colywn Bay
Came back via Chester, that's quite a nice old station building externally.
I had the misfortune to spend an hour at Warrington Bank Quay station recently. Grim. Nothing near by and right next to a mahoosive factory. Plus the local trains look like shit buses.
a big fuck off to the member of Virgin train crew who didn't turn up for work @ Euston and made me miss my connection to Colywn Bay
Came back via Chester, that's quite a nice old station building externally.
tangerinedream
Density of Sound
Have you seen Ulverston on the same line? That's very interesting! Well restored, lovely lights, odd platform layout and semaphore signals. What more could you possibly want!
Surely you mean when "good old BR" deliberately tried to close he line?
davesgcr
Reading books
"Good old BR" were told by Govt to close the Settle and Carlisle
So they appointed a Project manager (Ron Cotton) - who basically marketed the line and built up the business so that closure became a non issue.
So enough on that one please .........(Its now got a 2 hourly service , decent freigit flows and has been invested in track and signalling wise - plus all the stations are in better condition than ever)
So they appointed a Project manager (Ron Cotton) - who basically marketed the line and built up the business so that closure became a non issue.
So enough on that one please .........(Its now got a 2 hourly service , decent freigit flows and has been invested in track and signalling wise - plus all the stations are in better condition than ever)
oneflewover
Following "The Tigers"
Hourly now, with a stopping and and alternating limited stop service. Trolley service (manned by volunteers) and some conductors known to give running commentary of the sights.
My old English teacher at school helped campaign to save the Settle-Carlisle line. He also got our local station re-opened. A keen cyclist too. Sadly, he was run over and killed last year
A wonderful man.
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
That was almost certainly the Todt Organisation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_Todt
Which was headed By Speer in its final phase.
