Stations that fell from grace- stations still in use today that once were significantly more impressive.

[Zamracene749]

Inspired by the photograph of Bradford Exchange posted in the grubbiest stations thread, I wonder which of our active stations has seen the biggest decline? The kind of places that a young traveller today wouldn't believe were once impressive.

I'll start off with Stockton.

 

[WizCastro197]

Manchester Victoria?

 

[Intercity110]

Rugby in my opinion

 

[Bletchleyite]

Rugby in my opinion

Bigger than it was, no? Though no overall roof any more. If loss of an overall roof counts, though, then also Blackburn.

Manchester Victoria?

Agreed. What a dump.

Ormskirk? Down from 2 through platforms, 2 bays and a goods yard to one platform with buffer stops in the middle.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Preston - even though it got electrified 1973

 

[Peter0124]

Carstairs

 

[HamworthyGoods]

Epsom Downs
Skegness
Portrush
Exeter St Thomas

 

[Islineclear3_1]

East and West Croydon

 

[InkyScrolls]

Hellifield - was a major junction with two throughs and two bays, daily through trains to London and Edinburgh, regular terminating and through services from Leeds, Carlisle, Manchester, Barrow and Morecambe, a significant goods yard and large loco shed. Now has two much-shortened, dilapidated platforms with infrequent services made up solely of 158s between Leeds and Carlisle/Morecambe, with the last train leaving Leeds as early as 1949.

 

[Iskra]

Penistone
Normanton
Carnforth
Blackpool North

 

[tspaul26]

Manors

 

[Basil Jet]

Epsom Downs

Yes and no: the current station was built in 1989, 420 m away from the historic one.

Kensington Olympia
Marylebone
And for a curved ball, Canfranc.

 

[TheBigD]

Not in the UK but Calfranc springs to mind.

 

[MikePJ]

Epsom Downs
Skegness
Portrush
Exeter St Thomas

Epsom Downs, definitely. A massive station now reduced to one platform at the far end of a housing estate. The station building looks like a Barratt Home!

 

[PTR 444]

Templecombe
Penistone
Windsor & Eton Central
Stranraer
New Holland
Lelant Saltings

 

[stuu]

Aberystwyth. Five platforms down to one, and the main building is a Wetherspoons

 

[Halish Railway]

I'd nominate Fairfield - 6 platforms on a junction to just two, receiving an hourly service in each direction. Also worth noting; Morecambe, Halifax, Normanton, Birmingham Snow Hill and both Bradford stations (If you consider them to be the same station than what they replaced).

 

[unlevel42]

Chinley

 

[nanstallon]

Newton Abbot, only a shadow of its former self.

 

[steamybrian]

Christs Hospital - was 7 platforms now 2
Ambergate was 6 platforms now 1
Morfa Mawwdach (Barmouth Junction) was 4 platforms now 1
Exmouth reduced from 4 platforms to 1

 

[Revilo]

Honeybourne and Templecombe were both important junctions. Both closed, to be reopened in much reduced circumstances.

 

[Merthyr Imp]

Gainsborough Central

 

[D365]

Any thoughts on the Huntingdon station(s)?

 

[brad465]

Honeybourne and Templecombe were both important junctions. Both closed, to be reopened in much reduced circumstances.

Are there plans for either to reopen? I've heard talk about getting the route to Stratford-upon-Avon reinstated, although not seen concrete plans, and certainly nothing about the Somerset & Dorset railway reopening.

 

[The exile]

Christs Hospital - was 7 platforms now 2
Ambergate was 6 platforms now 1
Morfa Mawwdach (Barmouth Junction) was 4 platforms now 1
Exmouth reduced from 4 platforms to 1

In similar vein, Manors.

 

[Iskra]

March and Spalding too

 

[The exile]

Are there plans for either to reopen? I've heard talk about getting the route to Stratford-upon-Avon reinstated, although not seen concrete plans, and certainly nothing about the Somerset & Dorset railway reopening.

Think reference was being made to the stations rather than the junctions.

 

[Iskra]

London Euston

 

[geoffk]

Rochdale - formerly four through platforms and four bays.

 

[brad465]

Feniton potentially counts; used to be Sidmouth junction with 3 platforms and branch line to Sidmouth, as per the old name, now just 1 and a service every 2 hours (had a relatively brief closure after Beeching). Similar could be said for the 2 remaining Yeovil stations.

Think reference was being made to the stations rather than the junctions.

Okay that would make sense.

Epsom Downs, definitely. A massive station now reduced to one platform at the far end of a housing estate. The station building looks like a Barratt Home!

You could also say similar about nearby Tattenham Corner, although not as much compared to Epsom Downs, the former going from 7 platforms to 3, and presumably a much reduced service as well.