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in 5 words or less, how would you describe the major station on the network you use most?
 
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Here are the three I use most (generally in equal proportion):

London Victoria:

Large. Clean. Busy. Pretty routine.

London Bridge:

Grey. Building works. "Interesting" layout.

East Croydon:

Depressing. Good staff. Platform alterations.
 

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Lincoln
Short Platforms. High speed train.

(unfortunately I rarely catch said HST's)
 

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Tiverton Parkway: 7 miles away, decent station.

Exeter St Davids: good location, currently lacks modernity.

Taunton: cheap parking and well designed.
 

DarloRich

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Euston: A grim concrete depressing hell

Birmingham New Street - dank, dark, depressing, concrete hell

Kings Cross - Transition, gateway, escape route north!
 

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Newcastle: Wind tunnel
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---
Former regular - Manchester Victoria: Nuclear Bunker
 

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East Croydon: Don't go there on Sunday.
 

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Birmingham New Street

Knock it down. Start again

Manchester Piccadilly

Northern hole. Get out quick

Bristol TM

Nice station but silly accents

Reading

When will it be finished

Oxford

Student girlies. yum yum yum
 

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Chester: Bird poo - on your head.

Denton: You've got a long wait.

Wigan North Western: Misery. Just misery.
 

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Denton: You've got a long wait.

Now we've moved onto minor stations (ahem, see the title of the thread, but on second thoughts, don't worry ;) ):

Betchworth: Two hour wait. Nice area.

Lympstone Commando: You might not get shot.

(Never been there, mind :( .)

Roding Valley (LU): Meet TfL enthusiasts (nobody else).

Altnabreac: Nobody will hear you scream.

And some less-minor local ones for me:

Reigate: Built in Homebase car park.

Redhill: Historic site serves complete dump.

Merstham: May as well not bother.
 
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Bath Spa: Grand construction site of numpties

Birmingham New Street: Get me out of here!!!!!

Bristol TM: I forgot how to count! [passenger platforms go 1, 3-13, 15]

Cardiff Central: Welsh = Good. Arriva = Bad. Sigh...

Feltham: Please remove the level crossing!

London Paddington: Brunel's busy diesel-stained masterpiece

London Waterloo: Too busy for my liking

Reading: Get on with it already!

Southend Victoria: The other Victorias are bigger

Thorpe Bay: Hello, my niece and cat!

Those are all the stations I use at least semi-regularly. Obviously some are not especially important, but all see upwards of 500,000 passengers a year and almost all see more than 1M a year. And some have too many visitors!

Oxford

Student girlies. yum yum yum

What are you like :lol:
 

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Huddersfield: Platforms Five and Seven?????!!!

Leeds: Wind Tunnel. Automatic announcements. :C
 
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