Best looking/historic stations

[Metro95]

What railway stations do you think look the best/are most historic?

 

[newguy]

Wemyss Bay and Glasgow Central.

 

[D6130]

Birmingham Moor Street and St Pancras International.

 

[The exile]

The great trainsheds on the ECML; Newcastle, Darlington and York. Bristol TM (once the refurbishment is complete and all the scaffolding has gone). At the smaller end, several of the intermediate stations on the Newcastle - Carlisle line; Knaresborough. I believe Frome is the last of Brunel's train sheds.

 

[Intercity110]

Modern Euston and coventry.

 

[Cherry_Picker]

Birmingham Moor Street has already been mentioned but a lot of the out stations the North Warwick Line (Tyseley to Stratford upon Avon via Shirley) are also still in period GWR style, as is Leamington Spa.

 

[yorksrob]

Lewes, Eastbourne and Brighton are all rather splendid.

 

[zwk500]

Lewes, Eastbourne and Brighton are all rather splendid.

Agree with these.

Soft spot for York and Newcastle as well but also King's Cross main shed has been restored magnificently.

 

[brad465]

If they're considered historic enough I like the main buildings at Margate and to a lesser extent Ramsgate.

 

[43096]

Leipzig Hbf

 

[joebassman]

Needham Market

 

[Stewart2887]

Culham-though it's not in railway use now

 

[Metro95]

If they're considered historic enough I like the main buildings at Margate and to a lesser extent Ramsgate.

It can also be best looking stations as well as most historic stations.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Preston isn’t bad IF viewed from the front only!

 

[wellhouse]

Hebden Bridge, complete with remarkably discreet modern lifts

 

[Iskra]

Huddersfield

 

[Trainlog]

My favourites have to be

• Alton (NR and Mid hants sections) A lot of the mainline station is in BR region green and its great that NR is playing along with the historic theme so that it blends in with the Mid Hants northern terminus
• Leamington Spa - Do like the amount of references that are around the station and the GWR paint scheme.
• Exeter St Davids - do like the fact that there is still a lot of platform decorations such as weighing scales

There are probably others i have been to but haven't come to mind.

 

[delt1c]

Wemyss Bay and Glasgow Central.

Have to agree both have retained there historic charm but fit in with modern needs.

Birmingham Moor Street and St Pancras International.

At Pancras it has retained its facade, but internally is nothing like it was. Moor St I agree still has its character

 

[Rail Bus]

Altrincham

 

[Ken H]

If people are going for the great trainsheds on the east coast, then you have to mention Manchester Piccadilly and Liverpool Line St on the West Coast
I have a soft spot for Oxford Rd but it needs a tart up.
And Carlisle is good.

Smaller stations - Bingley, Hellifield and Settle....

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Hebden Bridge, complete with remarkably discreet modern lifts

Huddersfield

Hebden I'd say is more historic in terms of presentation. Huddersfield is magnificent from the outside but once you're through the ticket barriers it's a bit of a nothing-burger. The mixture of features from different eras with no attempt to integrate them together doesn't help, nor does the "make do and mend" attitude that has understandably crept in with the upcoming revamp for the Trans-Pennine Route Upgrade.

Hebden is more low-key, but the modern features that had to be added have been done much more sympathetically.

 

[Kingston Dan]

Surbiton

 

[greyman42]

At Pancras it has retained its facade, but internally is nothing like it was.

Surely that's a good point?

 

[Sorcerer]

Another vote for St. Pancras here, and also possibly for Liverpool Lime Street with it's hotel entrance and the fact it's the oldest operational mainline terminus in the world (I think anyway).

 

[92042]

Tynemouth Metro Station

 

[WizCastro197]

I've always thought Nottingham was quite good looking historically, with its two concourses.

 

[Richardl1th]

Maxwell Park

 

[Nottingham59]

Great Malvern

 

[Ken H]

Great Malvern

Yes. Look especially at the foliage at the tops of the canopy supports.

 

[Gathursty]

Hellifield, Grosmont, Keighley