Coldest UK railway station

[mirodo]

Did you mean 'gnawingly'?

Never gnawingly under-cold.
(c) John Lewis

 

[2L70]

Sheffield 2/3/4/5, and there is nowhere to get warm unless you go in the buffet.

 

[Astro_Orbiter]

Stansted Airport is always freezing even in summer the staff wear coats

 

[ChiefPlanner]

Anyone tried Sugar Loaf on the HoW ? (and lived)

 

[xc170]

Bristol Parkway.

 

[Lampshade]

Wigan North Western.

 

[Deepgreen]

Anyone tried Sugar Loaf on the HoW ? (and lived)

If they haven't lived, you'll get few responses.

 

[urbophile]

Moorfields, especially when a train is approaching and pushing the cold air through the tunnel in front.

 

[Dr Hoo]

Never gnawingly under-cold.
(c) John Lewis

As in Gnebworth. Well spotted.

 

[Esker-pades]

Anyone tried Sugar Loaf on the HoW ? (and lived)

I would've thought that would be reasonable given that it's in a cutting.

The coldest I've been is at Lochluichart, but that's more because of the weather than it being especially cold. Those rural and exposed stations (for me, Corrour most recently) will always get a chill. I also find Lewisham and London Bridge stations very unpleasent to wait on. If there's any sort of wind it gets right up you.

 

[Whistler40145]

I always find Preston and Crewe freezing

Preston is one of the coldest stations I’ve ever been on, especially on a breezy day

 

[Pinus contorta]

I travelled to Wilhelmshaven on the train in winter of 1995. The sea was frozen over in the harbour when we got there. I took my hands out of my pockets to take a photo with my camera but I immediately dropped the camera as it was so cold.

 

[HammerDown154]

Preston!

 

[Pinus contorta]

Preston has it's own version of the föhn wind effect.

 

[DerekC]

I recall Rannoch being pretty nippy in April with snow on the ground when waiting for the Caledonian Sleeper - and it seems to take an age after the headlight comes into sight on the approach from Corrour before the train actually arrives.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Bristol Parkway.

Couldn't agree more. It was cold and windy when it had two platforms that had metal sheeting and waiting rooms on the down that overlooked the yard. With four platforms it's like Siberia. Was there this morning,blowing a gale and bitterly cold. Only a passing 56 and DVT lightened the mood.

 

[Momo and diggy]

Sheffield 2/3/4/5, and there is nowhere to get warm unless you go in the buffet.

Or the Sheffield tap

 

[yrreb]

Manchester Victoria platforms 3 - 6 are particularly draughty. Have spent many early mornings and late evenings stood there with the wind and rain funneling the cold air through the gap in the roof on 3/4

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Bristol Parkway.

Remember it being very cold there when waiting for my train back to Wakefield after visiting an open-day at UWE (coincidentally the same day as the Great Heck incident). There had been snow on the platform at Westgate that morning but once the sun went down Parkway was, as we say up here, "mithering". I was very pleased to board the toasty mk2s behind a 47 when it turned up!

My current local, Batley, seems to always catch the chilly wind regardless of where one stands.

 

[Class800]

Smethwick Galton Bridge is utterly bitter.

agree on that one for sure

 

[Grumpy Git]

Dove Holes

 

[Carlisle]

Lies. All lies. It is positively sub trooical compared to Bletchley

I could possibly believe that as I had a friend in Hemel where I realised via several visits that the Chilterns are at times considerably colder than other relatively nearby areas

 

[paulmch]

When the wind is blowing in the wrong direction at the wrong time of year, Nuneaton station is the coldest, most depressing place in the world.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Surely Chilham?

 

[lxfe_mxtterz]

I've always found Reading particularly cold.

 

[FtoE]

Less so, now that it’s covered but there was a particular and peculiar coldness to Waverley Steps.

 

[CaptainHaddock]

Wakefield Kirkgate, especially now the waiting shelter on platform 2/3 has been demolished.

 

[Mintona]

Ebbsfleet International high level, with an honourable mention to Bristol Parkway.

 

[muddythefish]

Derby........always windswept, bleak, uninviting even in the old days when it was busy with freight. Never lingered there long.

 

[Class195]

Morecambe. End the thread.