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Ugliest railway stations in the UK

I forgot about Waterloo Station, Aberdeen but it has not carried passengers regularly since WW2

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Half of it has recently been paved over for a lorry park but at least they did dig-up all the covered lines, repair them before recovering, to keep the option to reopen the last railhead to the docks if freight traffic picks-up again. :)
 
Guildford station is one of those souless buildings from the 1980s, an island maroned in a sea of three lane town centre traffic.

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The waiting room at Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex

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Edit: Didn't read the thread as I was so excited to have a chance to post that pic :rolleyes:

I was really surprised when I went to see my friend in Caterham and the train station waiting room had a sofa and a bookshelf and paintings on the walls.

It isn't like that where I live.
 
Another vote for Birmingham New Street - with the qualification that, do the Brummies actually deserve any better? I mean, they proudly turned their city into Motorcar City in the 1960s, so fuck 'em.

Oxford certainly wins the vote for most congested/tiny in proportion to its significance (the Oxford/London commuters, the Virgin Cross Country Penzance to Glasgow line). Am I imagining it, or did Private Eye have a load of stuff in the early 90s on how the land next to it was reserved to turn Oxford into a proper big station befitting the university town's importance and rail connections - but with privatisation they flogged that off to the Saudi arms dealer who built his poxy business college on it?

Dundee's is ok - quite unique for it's early 80s plastic and mirrors office-stylee look.

Bradford Interchange as runner up, perhaps? Massive Victorian shed, demolished in favour of an 60s bus and train interchange, now woefully underused. Not as dirty and dangerous as it was in the 80s, though. Someone at my school was stabbed to death in there, waiting for a bus! :(

Or even Bradford Forster Square - another lovely big Victorian terminus, demolished, built over with out of town JBSports Warehouses, and now a dinky lego-town bus stop style station and platform....
 
Fort William Station.

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This one makes me particularly angry because what is there now - a very unremarkable one-storey prefab type building and a couple of bleak platforms, separated from the centre of town by a main road and a supermarket car park - was built in the 1970s to replace the original station which was adjacent to the ferry pier at the waters' edge, and a few hundred yards from the high street.


That one was knocked down to make way for a dual carriageway road which now cuts the town off from the waterside.

Photos here:

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/f/fort_william/index.shtml
 
I think Frome is a lovely looking station.

It's one of the oldest stations in the UK too, opening in 1850.

I was told the other day that it's a listed building. I was a bit shocked by that, but each to their own I suppose.
 
But if there was only one plague pit left in the UK that was still as it was back then, there'd be rules to stop it getting turned into a Tesco car park wouldn't there?

Or maybe not. :oops:
 
"unique" doesn't mean it's worth saving.

Sometimes it does. Depends whether you are interested in preserving bits of history that show the developments of various things over time, or just the pretty bits.

In any case the depressing aspect of Frome station (if it is depressing; I've never been there) is probably more down to the way it is looked after than to the actual structure itself.
 
i do like the fact that no one feels the need to illustrate their votes for New Street with a picture.

the horror speaks for itself :D
 
i do like the fact that no one feels the need to illustrate their votes for New Street with a picture.

the horror speaks for itself :D

And guess where I'll have the unrivalled joy of trying to change trains if I go away this weekend?

It'll be pleasure you can't measure.
 
Angel Road in Edmonton.

In the middle of a couple of flyovers and nestled in industrial estates.

The only entrance to the station is miles away on a flyover. To get to the station from the entrance involves a long walk down a long footpath. Only a few trains a day stop there during rush hours.

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Hyde Central (just a couple of rickety platforms)

Guide Bridge (a wonderful collection of decaying buildings)

Wallington (the last time I saw this station it was covered in graffiti and was piss-stained)

Tolworth, Chessington North, Chessington South (all built at the same time and all are wind-swept soulless places. Tolworth station is next to a derelict former goverment site).
 
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