Trivia: Stations that sound nice but really aren't

[TXMISTA]

Twickenham Station has to be one of the bleakest train stations in the southeast.

 

[Timrud]

Leeds

 

[AlastairFraser]

Aldermaston just makes me think of nuclear weaponry !

Most of the AWE base is actually a couple miles from Aldermaston proper on the Kennet and Avon Canal - the western end is next to the big suburban village Burghfield Common and the eastern end is next to a small business park (Calleva Park) and the bigger town of Tadley.
But, yeah, the connotations.
The reason Aldermaston near the canal isn't very nice is because the big A4 goes through the middle and Padworth Oil Terminal is also close.

Twickenham Station has to be one of the bleakest train stations in the southeast.

I raise you Winnersh Triangle.

 

[Djgr]

Daisy Hill
Blundellsands & Crosby

Blundellsands is just a short walk from the sands. So a bit mean there

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Pleasington
Burley Park
Berry Brow

Berry Brow isn't too bad, the immediate environs are leafy suburbia... it's only if you walk to the valley bottom and the notorious Holme Park Court flats that it becomes potentially hostile. Likewise Burley Park is hardly "straight outta Compton", it's just an area with a few students and non-white residents- nothing to be afraid of.

 

[yorksrob]

Most of the AWE base is actually a couple miles from Aldermaston proper on the Kennet and Avon Canal - the western end is next to the big suburban village Burghfield Common and the eastern end is next to a small business park (Calleva Park) and the bigger town of Tadley.
But, yeah, the connotations.
The reason Aldermaston near the canal isn't very nice is because the big A4 goes through the middle and Padworth Oil Terminal is also close.


I raise you Winnersh Triangle.

Ah cheers.

Bingley is another one that should be more beautifully located, but for the sodding great motorway running past it.

 

[AlastairFraser]

Ah cheers.

Bingley is another one that should be more beautifully located, but for the sodding great motorway running past it.

Eh, I think Hapton is worse. The M65 is really noisy.

 

[yorksrob]

Eh, I think Hapton is worse. The M65 is really noisy.

There's not much to choose between busy motorways I guess

 

[DB]

There's not much to choose between busy motorways I guess

The road through the middle of Bingley isn't actually a motorway, but it's certainly noisy and rather spoils what is otherwise quite a pleasant town.

 

[yorksrob]

The road through the middle of Bingley isn't actually a motorway, but it's certainly noisy and rather spoils what is otherwise quite a pleasant town.

Yes, I suppose at least proper motorways can be enlivened by some interesting service stations.

 

[Sad Sprinter]

London Fields
Cambridge Heath
Hackney Downs

 

[nr758123]

Flowery Field

 

[Alex27]

Oxford, beautiful city - horrendously ugly station

 

[greyman42]

Springburn.

 

[paul1609]

Gare Du Nord in Paris sounds grand enough in French but its just dreadful, Andy Street had it right when he described it as the Squalor pit of Europe, and I live near Euston and Kings Cross.

It was my one and only time in Paris. Just a dump, why it has a 'romantic' tag is beyond me.

At Ashford the PIS describes it as Paris North in English. It also translates Vallee sur Marne to Disneyland in English which always amuses me for some reason.

 

[Tester]

To go a bit further afield - try Sunshine, Melbourne, Australia!

 

[Peter0124]

Mount Vernon

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Flowery Field

Don't disagree, but already mentioned by the OP.

 

[xotGD]

The road through the middle of Bingley isn't actually a motorway, but it's certainly noisy and rather spoils what is otherwise quite a pleasant town.

It's a bypass. Before it was built all that traffic did go through the centre of the town.

 

[6Gman]

Coatbridge Sunnyside - it ain't very sunny to put it mildly.

A colleague of mine who was a big football fan once went to a weird football match (Airdrie v Derby County in some obscure Anglo-Scottish pre-season competition). Evening kick off. The trip was principally remembered for someone urinating down his back during the match and a 2 hour wait on Coatbridge Sunnyside - in pitch darkness of course - for the Up Royal Highlander.

 

[DB]

It's a bypass. Before it was built all that traffic did go through the centre of the town.

It doesn't actually bypass the town though - it cuts between the town centre and the areas with most of the housing, effectively chopping the town in two.

 

[Sir Felix Pole]

Hazel Grove, sadly, is a not sylvan idyll but a traffic-infested suburb of Stockport on the A6. The nice name was deliberately chosen in the 1830s to give it a more upmarket feel - it had a very poor reputation as Bullock's Smithy with its many disreputable alehouses strung along the Buxton turnpike.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

A colleague of mine who was a big football fan once went to a weird football match (Airdrie v Derby County in some obscure Anglo-Scottish pre-season competition). Evening kick off. The trip was principally remembered for someone urinating down his back during the match and a 2 hour wait on Coatbridge Sunnyside - in pitch darkness of course - for the Up Royal Highlander.

Would the "Royal Highlander" have called at Coatbridge Sunnyside in 1972 (?), or might it have been the even more delightful Coatbridge Central?

 

[jfisher21]

I was expecting a nicer area when I went to St Mary Cray, it's really just an overspill estate.

 

[lewisf]

Berrylands

Two wooden platforms on top of a windswept embankment next to a sewage works

 

[daodao]

Timrud stated "Leeds"

That is insulting a whole city, which has many attractive areas, such as Roundhay Park and Temple Newsam Estate.

My suggestion is Peartree (in Derby).

 

[Neptune]

The road through the middle of Bingley isn't actually a motorway, but it's certainly noisy and rather spoils what is otherwise quite a pleasant town.

If the bypass wasn’t there that quite pleasant town would have all that traffic bumper to bumper in the centre of it instead. Pre-bypass Bingley was horrendously congested, just as Shipley is now.

Damned if you do.......

 

[65477]

Sandhills - you would struggle to find any

I raise you in the singular - Shippea Hill

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

Warrington Bank Quay.
Not much sign of any water hereabouts, but the Mersey is buried inside the soap works to the west - it could host sea-going ships when the Grand Junction arrived.
The station itself is quite smart these days (platforms completely rebuilt for 11-car 390s), but the "view" is dire.

 

[Doctor Fegg]

Majestic Halt, Isle of Man.

It really isn’t.

Majestic Halt - Wikipedia

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