Unusual amenities at stations

[Cheshire Rover]

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That’s now permanently closed.

Crikey, I only used it a few weeks ago....

 

[joke2711]

Manor Road and Hoylake both have planters growing herbs ... and for which passengers are invited to pick their own when ready!

 

[FrodshamJnct]

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Crikey, I only used it a few weeks ago....

Yeah it’s a shame. Was always empty though.

 

[johnr57]

Was at Aberdour to see No 9 and noticed a shop on the up platform though at the time failed to notice its wares in detail

 

[Djgr]

Manor Road and Hoylake both have planters growing herbs ... and for which passengers are invited to pick their own when ready!

I believe Manor Road has a help yourself book swap library. Cultured lot in West Wirral!

 

[bearhugger]

Manor Road and Hoylake both have planters growing herbs ... and for which passengers are invited to pick their own when ready!

All the stations on the Whitby branch have herb planters for passengers to use too.

 

[Springs Branch]

Not in the UK, but at a station with a very British feel about it: Goulburn, in country New South Wales in Australia (on the line between Sydney and Melbourne & Canberra), had a blazing coal fire in the ticket office / waiting room when I passed through there a couple of years ago.

Very welcoming the fire was too, on a cool day in very early spring (it's not warm & sunny all the time in southern Australia, despite what you might think from Neighbours and Home and Away).

 

[bnm]

Redland Station in Bristol has a furniture upholstery workshop.

 

[duesselmartin]

Birmingham New Street has a whole shopping mall with John Lewis.

Aberdeen also has its own shopping mall including a cinema

 

[MikePJ]

Liss has a model railway layout and display about the former Longmoor Military Railway.

Meldreth and Shelford (both in Cambridgeshire) both have Indian restaurants - seems to be quite a common use for station buildings, judging by the numbers mentioned.

Cambridge has recently lost its postbox but Ely still has one on the platform. I presume these are fairly common at major stations?