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4 platforms doesn't seem small to me, really. As mentioned above: Coventry, Leicester, Warrington Bank Quay, plus Bradford Interchange, Gloucester, Ipswich and probably a few others that we consider major stations also have 4 platforms.

We can't possibly be adding suburban/periphery stations though? Otherwise Warrington definitely wouldn't qualify with Warrington West, (the barely surviving Sankey), Padgate and Birchwood. Southampton would fail on the same basis - there are about 6 or 7 stations in addition to Central.

I don't think Warrington can count, when many locals don't even really consider Central the 'main station'. My older family members, on the south side of town, will take a train from Bank Quay every time if they can (even to Manchester), partly ease of access, partly because there is more...

Same with cinemas. Martin Scorcese recently commented that he doesn't go to the cinema anymore because of the incessant chatter, loud phone notifications and people crunching snacks. I realised that this is why I also no longer bother going to the cinema.

Yes, this happened at my high school as far back as 1993. There was a campaign by some of the girls in the school to allow them to wear trousers. Their parents supported them and the school backed down and (perhaps clumsily) rewrote the uniform policy to make either skirt or trousers acceptable...

Sankey for Penketh. Actually this one should probably have been Sankey & Penketh as although it may lie within the Sankey ward, Great Sankey is the area directly above the railway lines and Penketh is the area directly below (south of) the railway lines. I guess they weren't contiguous when it...

I agree, there is absolutely nothing funny about people watching pr0n in public places.

Recommend Bose QuietComfort range over AirPods. They seem to fit the ear better.

Spoken like a serial non-headphone wearer who doesn't see the problem.

Without checking the history, isn't it more likely that the Italian community gravitated to where the consulate and/or Chambers of Commerce were chosen to be located? (as happens in many places e.g. a significant German expat community around Beijing's German embassy)

I do mean it, because it means going to a retail park with hideous flat-pack corrugated buildings rather than going to Chester city centre to access certain stores.

St Helens has always been bad. As has Widnes. Wigan and Warrington at least had some life to the town centre - bustling shopping centres, friendly people. Warrington feels the same. The life has been ripped out of the place and the centre given over to Vape stores and barber shops, or boarded...

Newark North Gate and Newark Northgate :lol:

Sheffield-Huddersfield-Manchester Victoria and onwards?

Before his cricket career took off, Phil DeFreitas was particularly accomplished at loading goods trains.

In the opposite direction, there was good reason for someone from Warrington and surrounding towns to want to travel to Sheffield, especially in the 1980s and 90s: Sheffield Wednesday were usually in the top flight. Sheffield United were sometimes in the top flight. (huge football crowds coming...

Like Delamere, it probably gets quite a lot of weekend ramblers. But, yes, it would be a strange terminus.

Sorry, when I said 'outer' I should have written 'easternmost'. It has always seemed a slog to me when doing it, but that's usually with bags.

St Pancras Thameslink is a long walk from Kings Cross outer platforms and this is part of the same station complex (for transfer purposes).

Sure, I am aware that there are good operational reasons for turning trains around at certain places. Still, I lived in the West Midlands for four years and when I saw 'Four Oaks' on a departures board I had no idea where it was. If the train was going to Sutton Coldfield, though, I could...