Metal_gee_man
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Thank Geoff Marshall for this one (shortest train service in the UK video) Wrexham Central
Thank Geoff Marshall for this one (shortest train service in the UK video) Wrexham Central
Not to mention Bath Green Park (probably as central as Bath Spa) - Was Bristol St Philips any more central than Temple Meads?Wrexham Central is not actually very...central, certainly not since they cut the line back to build a shopping area (hardly prime retail estate).
Wrexham General is hardly any further out.
We've actually lost some well-placed "Central" stations over the years - Manchester, Blackpool, Nottingham (Victoria), Liverpool (HL), Cheltenham St James.
Also two Glasgow city centre stations - St Enoch and Buchanan St.
Leeds Central wasn't as central as City is.
Not many of the Great Central's stations were any more central than their (usually Midland) rivals.
Not to mention Bath Green Park (probably as central as Bath Spa) - Was Bristol St Philips any more central than Temple Meads?
Lancaster aint bad.
Maidenhead's a reasonable walk to the main shopping centre (Nicholson) and shopping area.Barking
Ilford
Stratford (London: on- Avon really not so much)
Basildon
Stevenage
Maidenhead
Slough
Feltham
West Hampstead
Harrow on the Hill (more for the modern town centre than the old hilltop village/school)
Woolwich Arsenal
Blackheath
Bromley South (and North)
I'd say Penzance, Redruth, Newquay, Teignmouth, Dawlish, Honiton and Axminster are pretty good.
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Interestingly all 3 East Midlands Cities stations- Derby, Leicester & Nottingham are NOT convenient for their City centres. Nor are Chesterfield, Loughborough, Beeston, Burton on Trent, Long Eaton, Ilkeston, Alfreton, Hucknall, Newark Castle, Newark Northgate, Retford, Worksop, Grantham, Gainsborough Lea Road, Melton Mowbray, Market Harborough, Hinckley, Stamford......
I'd disagree with some of these. 2 mins walk from Leicester station brings you to the edge of the main shopping area, another 5 mins and you're in the middle. It seems worse because of the main road you have to cross outside the station. Similar with Nottingham - 3 mins walk to one of the two main shopping centres, another 5 mins to Market Square (the centre of the city by most reckoning), and Nottingham should improve soon with the main roads you need to cross being downgraded to largely remove through traffic.
Also Newark Castle I would say 3 mins over the river and you're pretty much in the centre.
Not much better for the cricket ground either.Guildford shops from the station is an easy walk, but a pretty horrible one - very busy, very narrow, pavements alongside a busy one way system.
Gunwharf from Portsmouth Harbour is really annoying - a very long way round to get to somewhere that is just yards from your train.
Dumbarton sounds like Fort William - cross or go under a busy dual-carriageway (although you’re adjacent to the bus station and handy for a supermarket and the Golden Arches...)All the stations near me seem to be decently located as the crow flies, but have a kind of terrible path to their town centres:
- Alexandria is only 5 minutes walk away from the main street, but the single platform station is on the opposite side from the centre and stuck in the middle of a traffic gyratory with no way of crossing except traffic lights
- Dumbarton Central is again only 5 minutes walk away, but you have to cross a dual carriageway either by traffic lights or a dark underpass, and the underpass route leads you into the back end of the "shopping centre" (a single pedestrianised street)
Space syntax analysis techniques can be used to quantify the existing quality of a location
Sorry, I'd disagree about Lancaster. It's quite a walk to the bus station, hospital, most schools and the main shopping centre (St Nics), not to mention the business parks. Not really close to anything other than the castle and football ground.
I'd dispute Bath Spa. It is on the edge of the centre, about 500 yards from the Abbey and Roman baths, further still to the principal shopping streets, and even further to the Royal Crescent and Circus. I always found that walk, often done, along Manvers and Pierrepont Streets between the station and the centre rather tedious.Bath Spa