MadMac
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Don't forget that the boozers closed at 10 in Scotland back in those dark days!
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Trivia: Stations that sound nice but really aren't
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hexagon789
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How did the Royal Highlander come to run via Coatbridge Sunnyside?
Kingston Dan
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Wester Hailes sounds nice but really isn't.
rogercov
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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Bermuda Park as a pleasant holiday destination
I still live in the area and sadly the burly teenage problem is prevelant just about anywhere a station is in a built up area.
Requeststop
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How about stations that sound ugly and actually are awful?
Bletchleyite
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realaledrinker
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Almost heroic, Etruria is sadly no more. It was right next to a factory making toilets.
Bletchleyite
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If it still existed, Etruria would have a good chance of winning the thread!
Sounded lovely, actually in one of the nastiest bits of a nasty city.
Dr_Paul
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I delivered a table to a flat on the Sunray estate in Malden Manor a few months back; the estate looks rather uncared-for and tired. The main road from Worcester Park to Cheam is pretty tatty as well, although those leading off it are neat suburban residential roads.
Another not so 'green and pleasant' place is Golders Green; I walked through the area from Cricklewood to the Golders Green crematorium a couple of years back, and was surprised how tatty a lot of the residential roads had become; what was once a tidy and fairly prosperous London suburb now had many houses that needed repainting and the front gardens that needed sorted out; I got the impression that a lot of the modern population was transient rather than settled.
Grange over sands sound very nine and is a lovely village (only south facing village on the bay), but it now should be called Grange over grass, due to an experiment that took place over the bay to help stabilise some of the sand dunes. It did not work for the sand dunes , but it has worked on this side of the bay that did not want it as it has cut down the flat fish and shellfish harvesting ( think of Morecombe shrimps).
On the same line a good one is Nethertown in all the times that I've gone through the station I've nether seen a town. A very good view over the Irish sea on a clear day though.
On the same line a good one is Nethertown in all the times that I've gone through the station I've nether seen a town. A very good view over the Irish sea on a clear day though.
richard1976
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Elephant & Castle railway station - Wikipedia
Dr_Paul
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I'm pretty sure that there is still a railway station upstairs at the Elephant, although I must confess that I've not been there for some 18 months now...
bramling
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No worse than the M4 through Port Talbot.
realaledrinker
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Don’t think Greenbank has been mentioned. At the less salubrious end of Northwich.
Journeyman
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Very inconveniently located, too.
I used to live around there. I've certainly seen a lot worse.
Scotrail12
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Some really pretty areas in Paris. The whole area surrounding Gare du Nord and the Sacre-Coeur, ain't among them.
bramling
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A lot of suburban London has gone that way. Places like Edgware and Finchley that were quite smart 30 years ago have turned noticeably trashy in the last decade or so. They’re not *bad*, but they’ve lost the well-to-do feel. Even Barnet is starting to go that way.
Gloster
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Elmers End sounds as though it is a small hamlet at the end of a hedgerowed country lane. However, men called Elmer might not be so keen on the name.
frodshamfella
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Kirkdale sounds like its a Yorkshire Dales beauty spot, good for walking, I'd stop on the train if I was you. Belvedere , is certainly not a 'beautiful view'
Well, it did have its own quaint branch line until 1997 !
I suspect it goes back to the days when couples would marry in London on a Saturday, party at the reception until late evening and then leave for their honeymoon on the Night Ferry to Paris, as that would have been quite an exciting attraction in the 1950s-70s.
On arrival at some ungodly hour on the Sunday morning, they would repair to a nearby hotel bed to continue their wedding celebration.
After all, you don't necessarily go on honeymoon to admire the scenery.
Hawkwood Junc
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Bat & Ball. Conjures up images of an idyllic cricket ground somewhere in the Kentish countryside, but is at the bottom end of an industrial estate to the north of Sevenoaks.
johnnychips
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Thurn en Taxis contours up the idea of a Schloss in Germany overlooking the Rhine. In fact it’s a non-descript Brussels suburb.
Bletchleyite
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Sandhills also sounds nice. You'd be better taking the Southport train to Formby where there are actual sandhills, not a semi-derelict industrial estate and a generic 1990s housing estate just a bit too far from the station for it to be useful.
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