[Trivia] Termini stations with least facilities

[snakeeyes]

Tweed bank, just gotten a toilet and s coffee stand.

 

[bnsf734]

Heysham Port must be the only station where cars for the Isle of Man ferry drive across the concourse at the buffer stops!

How about Coombe Halt on the Looe branch - it is a terminus station as trains have to reverse - but most services are not advertised as stopping there and reverse at the end of the platform.

 

[infobleep]

Seaford is pretty bare.
There is a ticket hall one platform and a toilet.

A toilet you say. That must make it up market and posh compared to some of the stations on here. Hehe.

I wonder where the nearest toilet is to some of them without one?

I have to say I quite like these "trivia" threads. I'm not likely to visit most of these places so it's nice to find out a bit about them. The easiest thing to do if you don't like it is not to read it.

I quite agree

 

[najaB]

I don't recall much of anything at Thurso station when I was there, but that was 11 years ago.

I was going to suggest that, but it's a reasonably substantial building. Just not much in it as you said apart from a part-time ticket office.

 

[pitdiver]

I was going to suggest that, but it's a reasonably substantial building. Just not much in it as you said apart from a part-time ticket office.

I have just looked at some photos of Wick stn and noticed the sign over the trainshed. "Welcome To Thurso". What I can see you certainly are WELCOME to Thurso

Correction, why I said " Wick" I don't know. They were pictures of Thurso and you are still quite welcome to it.

 

[najaB]

I have just looked at some photos of Wick stn and noticed the sign over the trainshed. "Welcome To Thurso". What I can see you certainly are WELCOME to Thurso

It's possible that someone has mixed up the pictures as the two buildings are of a similar design.

 

[Deepgreen]

Thread title should read - terminal stations or termini, not both.

 

[pne]

Newquay is not particularly exciting as a station.

 

[DelW]

Pembroke Dock must be the most sparse station where HSTs ever terminate.

I cant remember anything being there. apart from a cat

If it's during opening hours, there's a nice real ale pub in the old station building (or at least there was when I was last there a couple of years ago)

 

[tigerroar]

Barton-on-Humber takes some beating!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tigerimages/14949725562/in/album-72157646153827869/

I would've waited for a train!

 

[GRALISTAIR]

I have to say I quite like these "trivia" threads. I'm not likely to visit most of these places so it's nice to find out a bit about them. The easiest thing to do if you don't like it is not to read it.

agreed - I love them

Thurso and Wick?

 

[najaB]

Thurso and Wick?

Already mentioned. Though they both have ticket offices, sheltered seats and toilets though so aren't as spartan as some of the others already mentioned.

 

[Sox]

I don't recall much of anything at Thurso station when I was there, but that was 11 years ago.

To compound matters, the station also looks very much on the edge of town.

 

[urbophile]

Kirkby station is a pretty sordid little grief hole.

It's usually staffed though. Unlike, as far as I know, Colne.

 

[Class 66's]

Tweed bank, just gotten a toilet and s coffee stand.

Have to agree, Tweedbank was quite disappointing when I got there in the summer. A building, which turned out to be for staff based there, and the ticket machines are card only, which isn't a great deal of use for someone who only had cash with him.

 

[Busaholic]

Newquay is not particularly exciting as a station.

It sets the tone for the town, though.

 

[Gathursty]

Thanks for all the replies. I think some terminal stations could be much better, particularly if they are coastal resorts. Reaching an end of a line should be a bit more exciting, or more hospitable at least than say the welcome you receive at Barton-on-Humber or Blackpool South (not that Blackpool North is much better to be honest).

 

[najaB]

To compound matters, the station also looks very much on the edge of town.

It's not that big a town.

 

[Old Yard Dog]

Kirkby station is a pretty sordid little grief hole.

But at least it has a ticket office and a toilet. And Kirkby counts as a (double) terminus as the two lines are not connected.

 

[anti-pacer]

Surprised nobody has mentioned the metropolis that is...

COLNE!