Triva: Stations with entrances in shopping parades?

[NeilWatson]

Seeing this photograph of Perry Barr station entrance led me to wonder which other stations have entrances in a shopping parade - effectively a shop-front.

 

[Aictos]

Seeing this photograph of Perry Barr station entrance led me to wonder which other stations have entrances in a shopping parade - effectively a shop-front.

I think you can count Windsor and Eton Central on the GWR network as a candidate as in 1997 AXA brought most of the station site and the area is now called Windsor Royal Shopping with the station reduced to a 3 car platform.

 

[telstarbox]

Epsom is like that although a bit grander.

55 Station Approach

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[Robertj21a]

Isn't Walsall similar?

 

[ATW Alex 101]

Liverpool Central?

 

[Dr Hoo]

Argyle Street in Glasgow is pretty low key for a city centre station.

 

[PeterC]

Cutty Sark?

 

[John Webb]

A number in London were deliberately built to include shops - for example (click on photos to go to the larger originals on the Geograph website):
From 2008:
Farringdon Station

© Copyright Colin Smith and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
and opposite, around 2012, a new entrance was built to improve access:
Farringdon Station (Thameslink)

© Copyright N Chadwick and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

South Kensington:
Southern entrance to South Ken tube station arcade

© Copyright Sandy B and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
And on the other side:
South Kensington Station

© Copyright N Chadwick and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

These are just two examples!

 

[73001]

Southport. Plus a fairly impressively large double arrow symbol.

Southport Train Station - Timetable, Parking, Map

Train station in Southport town centre. View parking information, a map, plus timetable to destinations such as Manchester, Wigan, and Liverpool.

www.visitnorthwest.com

 

[unlevel42]

Birmingham New Street
Doncaster- access to town centre

 

[Ianno87]

Newquay (sort of)

Side entrance to Wimbledon.

 

[65477]

The west side entrance to London's Liverpool Street station is through an arcade.

 

[Lucan]

I think we should exclude London Underground stations. There are loads of them like that.

 

[lincolnshire]

Think you can add Sunderland station to the list as entrance has shops etc either side of it at its main entrance and side entrances.

 

[adamedwards]

Welwyn Garden City. Entrance is in the main atrium of the Howard Centre.

 

[Mills444]

Pokesdown for Boscombe. sort of?

 

[Mojo]

Kilburn (High Road) is in a parade of shops, similar design to Perry Barr too.

I think we should exclude London Underground stations. There are loads of them like that.

Not sure I would say that there are “loads” of them - I can personally think of only a handful, and many of those are probably outwith what the OP was thinking about, being entrances in shopping centres like Fulham (Bdy), Bond St (one of the entrances) and Hammersmith (District).

 

[johntea]

A number in London were deliberately built to include shops - for example (click on photos to go to the larger originals on the Geograph website):
From 2008:
Farringdon Station

© Copyright Colin Smith and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
and opposite, around 2012, a new entrance was built to improve access:
Farringdon Station (Thameslink)

© Copyright N Chadwick and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

South Kensington:
Southern entrance to South Ken tube station arcade

© Copyright Sandy B and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
And on the other side:
South Kensington Station

© Copyright N Chadwick and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

These are just two examples!

Clapham Junction has a 'shopping parade' entry point too...

 

[Leyther]

Wrexham central.

 

[Nippy]

Wembley Central is pretty well hidden between shops.

 

[30907]

Wimbledon Chase was built with shops and the building survives - other stations on the Wimbledon and Sutton have lost their (smaller) ones.
Southgate Piccadilly Line has an impressive parade matching the station but it isn't integral (not that that stopped Tim Dunn... )

 

[JRT]

I thought Birmingham New Street was in the middle of a shopping mall.

 

[Dstock7080]

Wembley Central is pretty well hidden between shops.

not sure when you last saw it? now has piazza fronting High Road.

 

[Elecman]

West Kirkby

 

[SWTCommuter]

Canary Wharf DLR

 

[Gathursty]

Clarkston in Glasgow is at the end of a row of shops.

 

[Journeyman]

Wasn't there an entrance to Elephant & Castle Thameslink station from the now closed shopping centre?

 

[PHILIPE]

Merthyr

 

[61653 HTAFC]

The entrance to (Liverpool) Moorfields looks more like the entrance to a shopping centre than a station... Liverpool Central has a small mall inside the building too, which you have to pass through to access the platforms.

 

[fairysdad]

Exeter Central?