The UK's bleakest railway station competition

[PacificOcean]

For my entry I give you Angel Road in Edmonton.

Only a few trains a day stop there and there is a huge walk from the platforms to the only entrance/exit situated on a flyover, miles from anywhere.

The only entrance on said flyover:

Battered signage with several different brandings poorly put on (from WAGN to ONE to NXEA):

Empty windswept platforms (though I think this angle makes it look better than it is):

Any other contenders?

 

[bluestreak]

Romford.

 

[Kanda]

Thought we'd had this but it was ugliest: http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=281812&highlight=Milton+Keynes

 

[bi0boy]

St Andrews Road near Avonmouth

 

[PacificOcean]

Thought we'd had this but it was ugliest: http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=281812&highlight=Milton+Keynes

Ugliest and bleakest are two different things.

There is nothing at Angel Road to be ugly - just empty, battered, windswept platforms who's sole entrance is on a flyover miles from anywhere.

 

[PacificOcean]

St Andrews Road near Avonmouth

See, this sort of thing!

 

[MrSki]

Thornford Station in Dorset.

Can't find a picture but there is not a building within half a mile & it is a request stop.

 

[Mumbles274]

St Andrews Road near Avonmouth

that's not bleak, it's great, ace picture too btw

 

[Mumbles274]

i give you...

Corrour railway station

bit of a no brainer being the setting for the scene in trainspotting

 

[PacificOcean]

that's not bleak,

 

[PacificOcean]

i give you...

Corrour railway station

bit of a no brainer being the setting for the scene in trainspotting

That's pretty.

Not bleak, surely?

No, I suppose bleak is a word that can be used!

 

[Mumbles274]

how do you define bleak?

i'm thinking along these lines

Exposed to the elements; unsheltered and barren:

 

[Roadkill]

Broomfleet, in East Yorkshire.

It's not bleak in the sense of being unpleasant: it's just in the middle of nowhere and only four trains a day stop there.

 

[goldenecitrone]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Widnes_railway_station.jpg

Not really that bleak but it inspired Paul Simon to write Homeward Bound.

 

[free spirit]

i give you...

Corrour railway station

bit of a no brainer being the setting for the scene in trainspotting

I was thinking of Corrour, but then I remembered that the station house bit had been converted into some sort of a bothy last time I was there (15 years ago), where I actually spent quite a fun night getting pissed with my mates and some german hikers while the weather closed in around us... so not so bleak if it's still got the bothy?

 

[BlueSquareThing]

I was thinking of Corrour, but then I remembered that the station house bit had been converted into some sort of a bothy last time I was there (15 years ago), where I actually spent quite a fun night getting pissed with my mates and some german hikers while the weather closed in around us... so not so bleak if it's still got the bothy?

If it has a building I don't think you can claim it's truly bleak.

Berney Arms must be up there with them

 

[starfish2000]

Aw man. I haven't got photos but if you travel from Derby to Crewe with EMT on a little Class 153 Dogbox there are loads of bleak stations...Longton, Longport, Alsager, Kidsgrove etc. Longton station is always empty and yet the bins are overflowing with beer cans. Its a favourite nighttime binge drinking spot for the locals who all lost their Jobs at Rover in the 80's.....dark stuff.

 

[Griff]

Love Berney Arms station.

 

[PacificOcean]

Love Berney Arms station.

"Station"

 

[bi0boy]

If we are allowed green pastures I'd go for Dovey Junction in Wales, which is surrounded by sheep.

Also, Llandanwg nearby is a nice one, a bit smaller though

 

[PacificOcean]

I notice there are no signals.

What do the drivers do? Just guess?

 

[editor]

Broomfleet, in East Yorkshire.



It's not bleak in the sense of being unpleasant: it's just in the middle of nowhere and only four trains a day stop there.

But it's got a lovely signal box and semaphore signals!

 

[editor]

Torpantau in south Wales used to be legendarily bleak in the winter.

 

[free spirit]

I notice there are no signals.

What do the drivers do? Just guess?

IIRC it's a single line on the route to fort william, with only one train every few hours, so the only train it'd be likely to crash into up there would be itself on the way back, which would be a bit freaky really

 

[Mumbles274]

IIRC it's a single line on the route to fort william, with only one train every few hours, so the only train it'd be likely to crash into up there would be itself on the way back, which would be a bit freaky really

shit happens

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

These aren't bleak, they are quite picturesque.

 

[bi0boy]

These aren't bleak, they are quite picturesque.

OK how about Severn Beach, next one along from St Andrews Road:

 

[Roadkill]

But it's got a lovely signal box and semaphore signals!

True. A lot of the line between Selby and Hull still has semaphore signals, although I'm told they're slated for replacement. It really does feel isolated, though, sitting forlornly amid flat farmland on the windswept north bank of the Humber! I'm told it serves a nearby village, but I'm buggered if I've ever noticed it.

OK how about Severn Beach, next one along from St Andrews Road:

Now that really does look bleak, in every sense of the word.

 

[nadia]

I vote for duddeston or wolverton.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

OK how about Severn Beach, next one along from St Andrews Road:

What's going on there?