bi0boy
Power User
It's the terminus. They couldn't even be bothered to maintain the line to the buffers.
The UK's bleakest railway station competition
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It's the terminus. They couldn't even be bothered to maintain the line to the buffers.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Lympstone Commando Station
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Station of meh.
Duddeston is depressing - two lines passing through several derelict platforms and empty gantries for the overhead wires. It's a reminder of how much of the railway's been abandoned over the years.
Eridge, in Sussex, is similar. It was once a busy, if isolated, junction, with four platforms. Now it's rather run-down, with one platform in use and the buildings all sealed up.
At least it's been given a coat of paint since this picture was taken...
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
OK how about Severn Beach, next one along from St Andrews Road:
Am I missing something?
Beach? Beach?
Actually in that vain:
Cooden Beach station on the South Coast, right next to this - at least it does what it says on the tin:
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
Lympstone Commando Station
At least it has an exciting name - you could imagine all those burly blokes in their uniform getting off there for the barracks.....
Well I can anyway.
felixthecat
are we there yet?
Easily that Severn Tunnel Junction one. I used to have to change trains there and a bleaker, more souless place I have never been.
editor
hiraethified
They wouldn't just get off the train. They'd do forward rolls into the nearest bushes.At least it has an exciting name - you could imagine all those burly blokes in their uniform getting off there for the barracks.....
Well I can anyway.
Andrew Hertford
Chocolate Jesus
And I notice the rails are rusty on top! That surely says something.
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
Once the trains leave the mainline at Helensburgh they are controlled by radio signals from a central location near Fort William. Most stations on the line have the facility to allow trains to pass each other.
Gypsy Lane on the Whitby line is fairly bleak.
Once home.
not-bono-ever
meh
I present
Dagenham dock
hell on earth
Dagenham dock
hell on earth
BlueSquareThing
With chips
I can't find a picture of Swale Station, on the Sittingbourne - Sheerness line, but iirc it's prolly pretty bleak and has the distinction of going to Sheerness which suggests an element of bleakness in itself...
Not a public station as such...
http://www.kentrail.co.uk/Hoo Junction Staff Halt.htm
Station I would least want to be stuck in at night...
http://www.kentrail.co.uk/Swanscombe.htm
http://www.kentrail.co.uk/Hoo Junction Staff Halt.htm
Station I would least want to be stuck in at night...
http://www.kentrail.co.uk/Swanscombe.htm
Ask and you shall receive...
http://www.kentrail.co.uk/swale_halt.htm
Although both the old and new bridge have a certain grandeur and beauty.
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
For a slightly different definition of 'bleak' here's the now-defunct Princetown Station:
It may look nice in the picture, but in times past this was the station you would have arrived at if you were headed for a stretch in Dartmoor Prison.
A bleak thought indeed, methinks.
It may look nice in the picture, but in times past this was the station you would have arrived at if you were headed for a stretch in Dartmoor Prison.
A bleak thought indeed, methinks.
BlueSquareThing
With chips
editor
hiraethified
I've walked some of that route with the urban75 walk crew. In the pouring rain.
http://www.urban75.org/photos/devon/princetown-station.html
BlueSquareThing
With chips
Difficult to think of any other reason to go there - mind you, last time I went on that line the new bridge wasn't even thought about.
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
Carnforth used to be bleak despite it's film star history.....it must have once been grand....now you change for the Barrow trains. The trains carrying nuclear waste to Sellafield used to squeak their way through now and again to give atmosphere
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
I've walked some of that route with the urban75 walk crew. In the pouring rain.
http://www.urban75.org/photos/devon/princetown-station.html
Yep, that'd be Dartmoor all right. There's an old local saying that 'Dartmoor is three months winter and nine months rain.' It amazing when the sun does actually put in an appearance, though.
Did you get a good look at the prison at all? It's a very popular place for tourists to come and have a look at, from a distance obviously. It's every bit as much fun on the inside as it is to look at, I'm reliably informed.
