"Refurbishment" of Streatham Hill station.
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Minnie_the_Minx
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This must be the clunkiest rebuilding of a station ever. Did they employ some kind of military engineer to design it?
At least they have a shelter now though
100% masahiko
i is a professor and is magical like totoro
Oh no...do they have ticket entrance now?
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
The walkway's been refurbed. They have a shelter on the side of the platform where trains go towards Clapham Junction.
Haven't seen if the ticket office has changed yet as there was a temporary one on the pavement down the side street when I used it a couple of weeks ago.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Yes, and the megastructure that is the footbridge above.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
100% masahiko
i is a professor and is magical like totoro
Do you mean card readers? If so, then yes
Damn them!
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Not been there to see if the card readers are still by the temporary ticket office on the side street.
I saw an interesting building that I wouldn't have seen if I'd been using the original exit.
It was a tiny little narrow house opposite. I'm wondering if it used to be the station master's house or something
19sixtysix
Life as viewed from a Gay Gorbals Garret
I like the way at Gipsy Hill they gave us glass in the stairs and at Streatham hill they put wire mesh.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
The whole project appears to have been designed around the logistics of lifting the metalwork for the bridges in from a mega-crane in Drewstead Road with the fewest closures of the railway line. The final bit of bridge (from the overbridge back to the ticket hall) spent most of one Sunday hanging there while they tried to get it to fit!
The clunky new windows they have been cutting in the back of the (sadly unlisted) original 1850s wooden station building are an even worse bit of design that the steelwork. One actually cuts through the mouldings of the doorway that used to lead out to the (long abandoned) separate staircase to the down platform.
The clunky new windows they have been cutting in the back of the (sadly unlisted) original 1850s wooden station building are an even worse bit of design that the steelwork. One actually cuts through the mouldings of the doorway that used to lead out to the (long abandoned) separate staircase to the down platform.
Bunjaj Pali
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looks exactly the same as I remember it 10 years ago. What about Streatham station further down the hill? has that had a refurb cos that was proper horrid!
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Here is the view inside the footbridge (there is another, similar walkway which joins this one on the left at the far end; it leads from the back of the original wooden station building that Lang Rabbie mentions).
It's atrocious. And bizarre. Why the canted sides, and why the slightly curved metal mesh panels, and then why the glass bits inside the mesh, but only up to a certain height? And, of course, why the completely over-engineered structure in the first place?
Even if the original station buildings aren't listed... there must have had to be a planning application? Well done Lambeth planning department...
It's atrocious. And bizarre. Why the canted sides, and why the slightly curved metal mesh panels, and then why the glass bits inside the mesh, but only up to a certain height? And, of course, why the completely over-engineered structure in the first place?
Even if the original station buildings aren't listed... there must have had to be a planning application? Well done Lambeth planning department...
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Looks like these people are the culprits (along with Network Rail):
http://www.osborne.co.uk/article/7/...new_footbridge_at_streatham_hill_station.html
http://www.osborne.co.uk/article/7/...new_footbridge_at_streatham_hill_station.html
teuchter
je suis teuchter
It's not; you can see the previous arrangement of stairs etc in the background here:
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
I quite like the interior of the walkway - ok, maybe not the strip lighting and dangly cable or that shade of . . . green (?), but the basic shape is pleasantly curious. Not entirely finished though so . . .
it does have ramps - well, it will have ramps once it has finished. The new walkway has been put in so that there is also lift access to both platforms.
It is terribly ugly though: every time I walk along the walkway, I feel like I am in a concentration camp - the mesh on either side gives off the 'prison' vibe.
It is terribly ugly though: every time I walk along the walkway, I feel like I am in a concentration camp - the mesh on either side gives off the 'prison' vibe.
any idea if they have got rid of the Rabbit Phone sign on the platform: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_(telecommunications) Im sure there used to be one there.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Used to use that station regular, about 20 years ago. I liked Streatham at that stage - people were friendly and you were always getting invited to parties and stuff. London seemed, to this innocent, more cohesive and matey 88/89...
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