Coldest UK railway station

[JohnMcL7]

Probably Rannoch, Corrour or Dalwhinnie.

Dalwhinnie would get my vote especially after passing through it recently in the heavy snow while it was just rain at sea level.

 

[68001]

Barnetby

 

[Tracked]

Rugeley Trent Valley, though the Fish & Chips at The Yorkshireman round the corner made it worth the visit

 

[Antman]

Rochester due to its elevated position if there's a cold blast coming in off the river.

 

[DelW]

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

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

Indeed, I've waited for a train there on a November afternoon and it was surprisingly pleasant, being fairly well sheltered. Unlike the nearby summit, which I'd just walked from, where the wind made it difficult stand upright or to hold my camera still.

 

[jamesst]

Liverpool Lime Street main line, never been anything other than cold whenever when I'm on the concourse there.

 

[krus_aragon]

The station that comes to my mind is Cadoxton, but only because I used it during the cold snap of December 2009, and the station underpass was completely iced over.

 

[FrodshamJnct]

Carlisle can get pretty bloody freezing at times.

 

[Peregrine 4903]

Finsbury Park is absolutely freezing. It has got to be the windiest station in the country.

 

[Statto]

Definitely agree with Crewe & Preston, also Chester & Bidston.

All the Merseyrail underground stations are a wind tunnel, the entrance in the subway to Lime Street underground in particular is a wind funnel.

 

[unlevel42]

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

Or the Sheffield tap

There is a waiting room on "Sheffield 2/3/4/5" and if you do use the Sheffield Tap, make sure the door is open onto the platform- platform one.

 

[Vinnym]

Platform 7B at Chester where the Merseyrail trains depart is very exposed and cold in winter. Luckily they depart every 15 mins.

 

[2L70]

There is a waiting room on "Sheffield 2/3/4/5" and if you do use the Sheffield Tap, make sure the door is open onto the platform- platform one.

The Greenhouse with no heating?

 

[Branch line]

Dent, Ribblehead platforms though both have heated waiting rooms.

 

[Sprinter107]

Grangetown. Waiting for a train to Cardiff a few weeks ago, with the wind howling, the useless shelter providing no protection at all from the torrential rain, it may just as well not be there, and it was absolutely freezing. I've never been so pleased to see a train arrive.

 

[TheBoyFromTheN]

Scunthorpe, Grimsby Town and Cleethorpes.

Very true!!!
Donny!!!!!!Scunny!!!!!
ugh

 

[alangla]

Perth always strikes me as though it belongs in Narnia- it’s full of lots of draughty passages which act as wind tunnels.

First place I ever saw passenger controlled electric heaters in the waiting shelters. Makes things reasonably pleasant I guess

 

[gazzaa2]

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

Moorfields station (and the whole of Old Hall Street if you use that entrance) are still freezing during a heatwave.

 

[Deepgreen]

If the question was truly which is coldest station on any railway in the UK, then elevation will be the overwhelming factor - hence Cairngorm top, or, on the NN, the three or so Highland moors stations mentioned. If the question is; at which station does every member remember feeling chilly, then this will go on and on...

 

[221129]

Edinburgh Suburban Platforms. Coldest place known to man!

 

[Whistler40145]

Carlisle can get pretty bloody freezing at times.

Obviously Carlisle, Preston and Crewe were all designed without much protection from adverse weather conditions

 

[30907]

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

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

If only! The Föhn warms things up

 

[Pinus contorta]

Old age kicking in. It is over 25 years since I learnt about it in my geography 'a' level. I knew that Föhn meant hairdryer though!

 

[Ted172]

Worcestershire Parkway

Seems to be to do with the design of the station, no doors onto platforms from the inside building creates a wind tunnel across the overbridge linked platforms 1 and 3

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Disappointed at the lack of puns in this thread... so here's a few:
Coldshill Parkway
Ice and Elton
Ice-lip
Brrrrrnley Manchester Road!

 

[47271]

Glasgow Queen Street Low Level when there's an easterly winter wind hammering through the tunnel from High Street.

 

[306024]

Cold Norton. (Closed to passengers in 1939)

 

[Horizon22]

Any of the recent new builds; at Rochester, Bromsgrove, Reading and London Bridge (through platforms) the wind absolutely whips through them from seemingly all directions. I suspect its something to do with the design.

 

[HOOVER29]

North end of platform 5 at Nuneaton can take your breath on a brass monkey day.

Always found Rugby a cold station.

Dawlish on a blustery day is a bugger too

 

[SteveM70]

Littleborough, thanks in no small part to the waiting shelters being designed with a gap of about a foot between the ground and the bottom of the sides, which allows the wind in