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Lympstone Commando Station, your first stop on the road to death in a country far away
Ugliest railway stations in the UK
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spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
Not even close to New Street, but I always think Ebbsfleet should have been a more impressive edifice:
ooh - that's quite striking!
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
ooh - that's quite striking!
The building is quite nice, I think. It's the surrounds that lack a little je ne sais pas.
roryer
道可道非常道，名可名非常名
The surroundings reflect the age in which we live, in that the space for car parking dwarfs everything else.
Oswaldtwistle
Banned
Burton-on-Trent's station is no looker......
May I start with this ugly, cheap slab of nasty plastic roofing and concrete? And it's a terminus for fuck's sake.
You'll be pleased to know that there's a new station building in the pipeline - should be mostly built by this time next year, if not finished!
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
Lympstone Commando Station, your first stop on the road to death in a country far away
It's still preferable to having to wait and then try to change trains at Birmingham New Street. For that experience is truly an accurate representation of the seventh circle of Hell.
cyberfairy
http://unicycle-emptiness.co.uk/
Yet another vote for Birmingham New Street. I am dyspraxic and can get confused in new spaces-Birmingham makes me utterly terrified-a rabbit warren of small narrow platforms down multiple escalators-and the whole changing platform announcements that you can't quite hear
It smells, it's dark and it's smelly.
It smells, it's dark and it's smelly.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
The wasteland that is Gainsborough Central Station, with falling down warehouse with all the windows broken just out of sight to the left. 3 trains in each direction a week, all on a Saturday, and I think officially the least used station to still be open.
Swindon, anyone?
That looks horribly like the same sort of office block that used to disfigure the front of Paragon Station in Hull before it was demolished a few years ago and the station refurbished.
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miss direct
misfungled
I think Wolverhampton station is worse than Birmingham New Street. At least New Street has some shops and cafes.
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hiraethified
I think you'll right. I'll start a new thread about little used stations too!
I thought they were supposed to be doing that atm? It reopens in the spring according to the DLR map on the TfL site.
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
The wasteland that is Gainsborough Central Station, with falling down warehouse with all the windows broken just out of sight to the left. 3 trains in each direction a week, all on a Saturday, and I think officially the least used station to still be open.
Doesn't Denton in Stockport hold that title with just one train a week on Saturdays?
Sheppia Hill should also get a mention, it has one train a day at 5:20am
Ace
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
The waiting room at Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex
What's wrong with that?
It looks like Ikea.
5t3IIa
Registered User
What's wrong with that?
It looks like Ikea.
It was supposed to be a comparison, but I didn't bother to read all the stuff about only big stations mattering cuz I was full of zeal to post it whatever.
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
It does show how trustworthy the residents of Shoreham are.
Imagine that room after a week in Peckham Rye or Hackney Central.
Frome in Somerset. It's literally just a shed on the edge of town, with two platforms, but only one of which is ever used. I have to go there loads for work, including this Friday, and it's just so depressing, strewn with shit loads of litter. Shame, because Frome's quite a pretty little town.
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hiraethified
I think Frome is a lovely looking station.
Frome in Somerset. It's literally just a shed on the edge of town, with two platforms, but only one of which is ever used. I have to go there loads for work, including this Friday, and it's just so depressing, strewn with shit loads of litter. Shame, because Frome's quite a pretty little town.
It's one of the oldest stations in the UK too, opening in 1850.
Callie
Pivoting
Southampton is pretty grim:
Tides in
5t3IIa
Registered User
Frome in Somerset. It's literally just a shed on the edge of town, with two platforms, but only one of which is ever used. I have to go there loads for work, including this Friday, and it's just so depressing, strewn with shit loads of litter. Shame, because Frome's quite a pretty little town.
Looks like it's made of MDF.
That is hideouswhat goes on in all the floors?
Ah the beautiful Swindon station, I think its Railtrack offices or other railway related stuff thats above it now, I have memories of it being Allied Dunbar offices when I used to go there in the 1980s?
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
The Doric Arch now, since Fuller's bought it.
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