The UK's bleakest railway station competition
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Great Yarmouth is pretty grim... this is the view out of the concourse when you arrive:
Yeah, but that's a mere bijou tastette of the grim horrors to come, so by comparison with the town the railway station is the Jolly Fun Palace of Beauty.
PacificOcean
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Though I have never been to Great Yarmouth, I bet you are just being snotty and Great Yarmouth is indeed "Great"!..
Though I have never been to Great Yarmouth, I bet you are just being snotty and Great Yarmouth is indeed "Great"!..
My mum ran a pub there. I've visited the place often, and it's grim. This is going back a few years now, but it was the apotheosis of the collapsing British seaside town - grandiose advertising and signage pointed you to depressing, empty disappointments, whether it was cavernous sticky-floored pubs on endless 99p/pint promotions and still no punters, or finding out who's all washed up in showbiz by checking the end-of-the-pier attractions. Add to that a sense of parochiality that has the inhabitants calling the rest of the UK "the mainland", a kind of resentment at the rest of the country for choosing the Med over the North Sea, and a propensity for turds to wash up along the coast with depressing regularity, and the picture looks ever bleaker...
I think mods still go there on bank holiday weekends, presumably on the basis that, no matter what they do, they can't break the place any more than it's already broken. And the Acle Straight's probably a pretty fun blast, if you remember that it has quite a sharp bend in the middle (not everyone does...)
I guess part of Yarmouth Station's bleakness comes from the fact that it was once a much bigger place - regular Wakes Weeks trains would come down from the Midlands and North in its heyday, so its shrunkenness (there were actually two stations once) is even more in evidence...
ok sorryFuck off!
I live in Enfield Lock - it's lovely.
but you know i wouldn't mind living in enfiel lock .. right on the marshes gunpowder park etc but up to there is bleak ..
tom_craggs
Well-Known Member
OK how about Severn Beach, next one along from St Andrews Road:
Been here to take photos a couple of times but always gave up as I was never adeqautely able to convey the bleakness of this...which is mostly definately...the end of the line.
That's a very evocative photo. It might make quite a good theme for an urban photography comp - "end of the line".
The line at Milford Haven peters out, like a punchline-forgotten joke, in the middle of a Tesco superstore car park, next to a pathetic flyover (well, we had to have ONE in the county). But, this being Pembrokeshire, it isn't ever going to be much of a contender in the bleakness stakes.
If there is such a compo, here is my* entry:
* by mine, I mean the one that I stole from the excellent 2d53 site. The caption for that photo reads:
Can anyone actually see the rails?
Nah, I reckon you've 'shopped a DMU into a pic of your garden...
Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
Morecambe
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/17364756.jpg (ed: enormo image removed)
Mark Steel put it well a few months back
'there's nothing there - it's a strip of weeds!'
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/17364756.jpg (ed: enormo image removed)
Mark Steel put it well a few months back
'there's nothing there - it's a strip of weeds!'
cyberfairy
http://unicycle-emptiness.co.uk/
Morecambe-good call-I went there on Tuesday-a lot of Japanese tourists were on the train-they were very excited by Frankie and Benny's but soon grew depressed and cold. The waiting room was locked To be fair there is more than weeds to be viewed-there is a council estate and a closed down Blockbusters
To be fair there is more than weeds to be viewed-there is a council estate and a closed down BlockbustersPacificOcean
Unhinged User
Indeed.
I can see Megabytes of sky and a bit of a train - I think I have exceed my download limit with that image!
