'EYESORES'

Rick1984 · 30 Apr 2019

Great Yarmouth, bombed during the war and still looks like it. The surrounding areas are slowly improving

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py_megapixel · 30 Apr 2019

The exit footbridge from platform 1 at Swindon looks as if it could do with replacement. At the very least it needs its windows cleaned.

Non Multi · 30 Apr 2019

Bletchleyite said:
Luton station is completely in keeping with the town itself, i.e. that both are insufferably grim. Though all of the north-side Thameslink stations are pretty rubbish in a "done on the cheap in the 1980s and maintained to the bare minimum we could get away with" kind of a way - Bedford station is similarly nasty, and I don't mind Bedford as a town. Seriously needs a rebuild, with a platform on both fast lines while they're at it.

Slough station is in keeping with that town in exactly the same manner.

What's that saying? Oh yeah, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Slough

Bletchley

Arrpi87 · 30 Apr 2019

The entire Sittingbourne to Sheerness line, particularly Sheerness station.

Bletchleyite · 30 Apr 2019

Non Multi said:
What's that saying? Oh yeah, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Slough

Bletchley

OK, so Slough station has a fancy building. Bletchley does have a wonderfully bleak feel to it (and the town centre is barely any better than Slough). But Bletchley has a better barrier layout and adequate footbridge capacity, as well as a better (more punctual/reliable) train service. I wouldn't swap.

Esker-pades · 30 Apr 2019

Bletchleyite said:
OK, so Slough station has a fancy building. Bletchley does have a wonderfully bleak feel to it (and the town centre is barely any better than Slough). But Bletchley has a better barrier layout and adequate footbridge capacity, as well as a better (more punctual/reliable) train service. I wouldn't swap.

And how does the service reliability at Bletchley relate to Slough's station being an eyesore?

matacaster · 30 Apr 2019

Ravensthorpe presents a problem here. Which is worse, the town or the station? The station is approached through unlit scrubland and it only has platforms on the Leeds line, despite also having tracks to Wakefield. A truly depressing place which it would be wise to avoid after dark. Traffic through the town is very slow and drivers don't appear to have consulted the highway code in recent times.

matacaster · 30 Apr 2019

Mirfield station is not in itself unpleasant, but those with even a minor disability will doubtless find that the steep and numerous steps will mean that mirfeld is not somewhere where they are likely to be able to catch a train.

Mirfield has a very wide main platform, from the days when it used to have large refreshment rooms? This means that the tracks become significantly bow-legged as they pass the station. The waiting room is cold and quite exposed.

Ken H · 1 May 2019

matacaster said:
Mirfield station is not in itself unpleasant, but those with even a minor disability will doubtless find that the steep and numerous steps will mean that mirfeld is not somewhere where they are likely to be able to catch a train.

Mirfield has a very wide main platform, from the days when it used to have large refreshment rooms? This means that the tracks become significantly bow-legged as they pass the station. The waiting room is cold and quite exposed.

it used to have a roof over platforms and the 2 tracks adjacent

61653 HTAFC · 1 May 2019

matacaster said:
Ravensthorpe presents a problem here. Which is worse, the town or the station? The station is approached through unlit scrubland and it only has platforms on the Leeds line, despite also having tracks to Wakefield. A truly depressing place which it would be wise to avoid after dark. Traffic through the town is very slow and drivers don't appear to have consulted the highway code in recent times.

Stretching the definition of the word "town" somewhat, I think... :lol:

I wouldn't say Ravo is somewhere to avoid after dark, but for the lack of anything to do. It does have one of the best kebab shops in Yorkshire though. I quite like the rickety old footbridge at the station, too.

Meerkat · 1 May 2019

A lot of stations would be a lot less ominous if the chain saws were set free, especially those in cuttings

Mutant Lemming · 1 May 2019

Runcorn -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runco...uncorn_railway_station_(geograph_4020316).jpg

and

Runcorn East

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runco...,_Runcorn_East_railway_station_-_DSC06726.JPG

Bletchleyite · 1 May 2019

Most of the smaller 1960s stations on the WCML are pretty grim. I'll add Lichfield TV and Tamworth.

ChiefPlanner · 1 May 2019

Bletchleyite said:
OK, so Slough station has a fancy building. Bletchley does have a wonderfully bleak feel to it (and the town centre is barely any better than Slough). But Bletchley has a better barrier layout and adequate footbridge capacity, as well as a better (more punctual/reliable) train service. I wouldn't swap.

BY is almost "warehouse bleak" , but the footbridge has improved from the asbestos sheets it sported in the 1990's , rebuilt at time when the WCML Project MK1 was well over budget. Utility was the answer.

yorksrob · 1 May 2019

ChiefPlanner said:
BY is almost "warehouse bleak" , but the footbridge has improved from the asbestos sheets it sported in the 1990's , rebuilt at time when the WCML Project MK1 was well over budget. Utility was the answer.

I was never a fan of the asbestos "valancing" applied to platform canopies at the time (such as at Ashford, Kent).

EbbwJunction1 · 2 May 2019

61653 HTAFC said:
It does have one of the best kebab shops in Yorkshire though.

Are you quite sure that this is something in it's favour?

Coat on, door open, runs for cover .... !

urpert · 2 May 2019

Derby has always seemed like a bit of a mess considering its status as the epicentre of the railway industry (not to mention some of the other treasures at the top end of the MML).

DarloRich · 2 May 2019

Non Multi said:
What's that saying? Oh yeah, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Bletchley

I will take Bletchley over Luton every day of the week. Beltchley is depressingly poor but Luton is awful.

61653 HTAFC · 2 May 2019

EbbwJunction1 said:
Are you quite sure that this is something in it's favour?

Coat on, door open, runs for cover .... !

If you've already enjoyed the hospitality of the businesses near neighbouring stations, a good kebab may be just what the doctor ordered!

BowesRanger · 2 May 2019

I'd nominate Highbury and Islington.

Just a really ugly, messy, cold shack, plonked on top of a busy tube line and two busy railway lines. Totally out of keeping with its surroundings too

Ted172 · 2 May 2019

I think a suitable station fitting 'eyesore' would be London Euston.

Bletchleyite · 2 May 2019

Ted Fuller said:
I think a suitable station fitting 'eyesore' would be London Euston.

Yes, from the outside it is nothing if not pig-ugly.

Spartacus · 2 May 2019

61653 HTAFC said:
It does have one of the best kebab shops in Yorkshire though.

You'll have to narrow it down, it's not short of them!

chris_in_salop · 2 May 2019

Elgar House, just outside Worcester Shrub Hill.

Arguably the most hated building in Worcester, completely spoiling the roadside view of Shrub Hill's fine frontage.

Not the worst in the country, but definitely an "eyesore".

Ken H · 2 May 2019

The platforms at Torino Porta Nuova. Nice frontage tho. Palermo no better.

edit. it did get trashed in WW2

pieguyrob · 3 May 2019

Bletchleyite said:
Yes, from the outside it is nothing if not pig-ugly.

The inside is not any better either. In my own opinion, possibly one of the worst stations on the network to look at.

mr_jarhead · 3 May 2019

I have to say that I love a bit of Clasp Architecture.

61653 HTAFC · 3 May 2019

Spartacus said:
You'll have to narrow it down, it's not short of them!

I had to try a few duff ones to find the best, so everyone else has to too!

yorksrob · 4 May 2019

mr_jarhead said:
I have to say that I love a bit of Clasp Architecture.

Definitely niche !

Peter Kelford · 4 May 2019

Crescent Bridge Peterborough has very faded blue paint and is a complete contrast to the bright and modern station.

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