bramling
Veteran Member
Speaking of crap towns, yesterday I noticed hoardings up outside the (still open) pub at Dewsbury station with posters detailing the upcoming "gateway" improvements. On these posters is a section which claims the station at present offers no real sense of arrival to the town (the exact wording is different, but that's the gist). However anyone who has visited Dewsbury will know that despite some lovely architecture among the carbuncles, it is pretty much a ghost town. Even without the proposed improvements to the station environment, if you arrive by train it's all downhill from there, both topographically and figuratively!
I must say I personally don’t find Dewsbury that bad - not the town centre anyway. The station is very nice - nice architecture, smart and fit for purpose, and as you say there is some nice architecture in the town centre. That’s two plus points over Luton for a start.