I was looking at this thread, entitled 'Most
Exhilarating station approach' for the first time so I was a bit surprised and disappointed to see so many references to 'scenic', 'nice', 'green' so looked up to the start:
so now I see why. Great views.
Then got to this one :
ghost train
Now that's the exhilaration I was hoping to see- more like the exhilaration (fright, anxiety, thrill like a rollercoaster
) ...
For me, standing on the Platform end (8?) at Kings Cross next to the thrashing wheels of a Streak getting a grip to take off into the tunnel, the whoosh of smoke and steam, the noise, the smell, accompanied by the rumblings of the Deltics at the fuelling point across the way, the returned wave of crew and passengers ... [oh dear, that's a departure rather than an approach- which would be characterised by smoke-filled carriages while waiting in one tunnel or another ...not quite the same ... and maybe the fish train in the station an exhilaration of another kind
]