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A small dab of white paint and Eridge could become "Fridge"...Freezinghall
Alfroston (& Mansfield Parkway)
Shiverton Parkway
A small dab of white paint and Eridge could become "Fridge"...Freezinghall
Alfroston (& Mansfield Parkway)
Shiverton Parkway
It certainly wasn't -8C (actual temperature) as the temperature through most of that spell was 'only' around -2C or -3C, but it was unusual in maintaining that temperature day and night because the strong wind didn't allow any overnight further cooling. I used to work at Canary Wharf and there were some fierce wind effects around the towers there.Coldest I have ever been getting off a train (tube actually) was about 15 years ago. I used the small Eastern Exit at Canary Wharf, but blasted by a full on Beast from the East, coming straight up Thames Estuary complete with dampness from river.
Was only about -8c, but those massive buildings cause a funnelling of wind and it was a 50+mph windchill (so effectively about -25c). Wasn’t expecting a drop of 30c (or 45c with windchill) whilst going up an escalator
Will never happen again, as Wood Wharf has been built, blocking direct wind
Maybe it's too obvious, but I haven't seen Sutton Coldfield suggested yetDisappointed at the lack of puns in this thread... so here's a few:
Coldshill Parkway
Ice and Elton
Ice-lip
Brrrrrnley Manchester Road!
Positively balmy. You’re in an enclosed space that runs from Anderston to the old Glasgow Green station with few openings. Anyway, nothing is as smelly as that sewage smell eastbound trains seem to collect between Charing X and Queen Street on a warm day.Its warmer but dingier /smellier
Droylsden(Closed1968). Train spotting in all weathers in the late 1950,s until the early 1960's. Cold feet and chilblains. Does anybody get chilblains these days ?
I was going to say Reading, it's positively freezing there, every time I've been, don't remember it being like that before the rebuild.I'm surprised to see Reading doesn't have a mention yet - The station positively has it's own microclimate, usually fairly warm on the transfer deck (unless the wind's blowing through it), while the platforms are a wind tunnel themselves. Not helped by the elevated nature of the new suburban platforms on the north side of the station.
I was going to say Reading, it's positively freezing there, every time I've been, don't remember it being like that before the rebuild.
Dent, Ribblehead platforms though both have heated waiting rooms.
I can remember waiting at Darlington for a southbound mail train pulled by an A3 with something like 12 Mail vans and 3 passenger coaches, but the waiting room at the north end of the platform had an open fire fed by loco sized lump coal. (On a positive note, the station staff at Grosmont on the NYMR always have a supply of loco coal for the waiting room there)It's true. Darlington officially has it's own weather, permanently arctic.
I was there 7 years ago and it was freezing, There was a heated waiting room though-Is that no longer there?.Warrington Bank Quay
It was in February this year.I was there 7 years ago and it was freezing, There was a heated waiting room though-Is that no longer there?.
Piccadilly end of platforms 13 - 14
Antarctic explorers have gone missing there in July.
Sheffield 2/3/4/5, and there is nowhere to get warm unless you go in the buffet.
oh crumbs Dalwhinnie, managed to cause the sleeper to stop back in the 90's, it had to set back and attempt the bank againProbably Rannoch, Corrour or Dalwhinnie.