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Trivia: Stations that sound nice but really aren't
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Whistler40145
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Carstairs isn't very picturesque, very uninviting, think it always rains there and with the Scottish State Hospital in the background, makes the hairs on the back of one's neck stand up
Mcr Warrior
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Agree with the comment, don't think I've ever seen the sun shining when passing by the station, but going back to the thread title, in what way does "Carstairs" sound that it may be somewhere nice, but isn't, compared with say the decidedly misleading "Flowery Field" as mentioned by the OP?
"Carstairs" sounds as though it ought to be quite well heeled, with a big country house to me.
I know there isn't an easy option due to the valley beying quite narrow at that point, but the fact remains that while that road takes the traffic off the main shopping street, it really doesn't bypass the town.
It will also increase the noise levels, as the cars are going a lot faster than they would through the centre of a town.
I think the 'bypass' through Bingley is quite brutal. But the M66 through the middle of this bit of Bury just makes me sigh. https://goo.gl/maps/gcLLnNS4zyjsD6hh8
Novern Uproar
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Goldthorpe, South Yorks. I can assure you that the station & the streets of this former mining town are not paved with gold.
Flange Squeal
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I always think Earlsfield, Strawberry Hill and Malden Manor all sound more like countryside locations than commuter stations in residential areas of south west London.
I'm not even sure why Leeds was suggested. The thread title is about stations that sound nice, how does 'Leeds' sound nice?
Bletchleyite
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I'd probably say it's the opposite - it's nicer than it sounds!
YorksLad12
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You can't say 'Leeds' without smiling.
Well... perhaps *some* forum members could...
Severn Beach.
The waterfront has been tided up but anyone turning up with the family and everything for a day on the beach will at best get very glum faces. The best way to recover the situation would be to get to Weston-super-(night)Mare / Weston-super-Mud ASAP. There is beach with what can just about be called sand and at Madeira Cove always water to paddle in.
At least in Blackpool there is a beach as well as the Pleasure Beach amusement park.
The waterfront has been tided up but anyone turning up with the family and everything for a day on the beach will at best get very glum faces. The best way to recover the situation would be to get to Weston-super-(night)Mare / Weston-super-Mud ASAP. There is beach with what can just about be called sand and at Madeira Cove always water to paddle in.
At least in Blackpool there is a beach as well as the Pleasure Beach amusement park.
You mean there's another Leeds?It sounds like a nice little village in Kent with a castle
Apparently it's not even on the Southern Region !
Dr_Paul
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And Bethnal Green, to complete the run. My dad recalled when someone from outwith London started at his workplace and saw these stations on a railway map and said that it sounded nice and rural. It might have been two centuries earlier.
iphone76
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Maryland always conjures up somewhere in New England when I hear it announced. Then I remember.
Mordac
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Surely it would conjure up the state of Maryland?
iphone76
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Geography was never my strong subject. I thought that was one of the New England states. Doh.
61653 HTAFC
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To be fair whilst Strawberry Hill sounds more like a chocolate box traditional English village than an upmarket suburb, it does at least live up to its name in the terms of this thread... unlike Malden Manor, which should really be called "Malden Sink-estate".
WideRanger
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Thinking of many of the 'Greens' in London: Edmonton, Wood, Stepney. None of them are very nice.
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Bletchleyite
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One stop along from there, Hattersley sounds like it should be really posh but it's actually an abject dump of a Council estate, albeit one with nice views.
High Dyke
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Wishful thinking.
Western Sunset
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I always think of cookies when Maryland is mentioned. Nothing wrong with Strawberry Hill; quite an attractive little station. Nearby Upper Halliford though, is a noisy, rather desolate spot, right next to the M3.
Revaulx
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Really? I had a girlfriend who lived round the corner from Malden Manor many years ago. Dull suburbia certainly, but I don’t recall it being remotely sink-estate-like.
61653 HTAFC
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Like many areas, it's probably changed over the years... and one hostile feeling about a place can make one assume it's always like that, whereas another person could visit the same place and not feel threatened at all. When I was studying in Kingston, the locals I knew (through both work and uni) would talk ominously about the Estate (Sunray? If that is indeed the name, it would be at least topic-adjacent for this thread!) near Malden Manor station.
Personally nowhere comes close to the apparent hostility of Castle Bar Park, but that doesn't sound particularly nice anyway so is off topic.
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