Worst Stations

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Oakleigh Park
I remember being kicked off of a failed FCC 365 there in the rush hour last year. There was inadequate cover from then rain which was bucketing down. To be fair to FCC, they arranged the next train to stop and pick us up but I felt sorry for the people already on the second train who were suddenly swamped by the drenched and dripping contents of the failed train

The station may be adequate for normal inner suburban use, but crap for pertibation

 

[blue87]

Wembley Central used it a few times. Dark dingy place especially the mainline platforms and overbridge which is part of a shopping centre. Not a place i'd want to be hanging around around at night.

 

[Railman01]

Bolton has got to be one of the worst stations in Britain. The ticket office is too small, the Travel centre is only manned as and when there is enough booking office staff available. The false ceiling at the entrance to the station is ready to fall down and has got to be a health and safety risk. According to form there is no CCTV to speak of and no BTP based there. The passenger waiting rooms, toilets and the cafe are a disgrace. It attracts all kinds of druggies, drunks, beggars and general nasty characters especially at night. A major, major lack of investment.

 

[yorksrob]

Bolton has got to be one of the worst stations in Britain. The ticket office is too small, the Travel centre is only manned as and when there is enough booking office staff available. The false ceiling at the entrance to the station is ready to fall down and has got to be a health and safety risk. According to form there is no CCTV to speak of and no BTP based there. The passenger waiting rooms, toilets and the cafe are a disgrace. It attracts all kinds of druggies, drunks, beggars and general nasty characters especially at night. A major, major lack of investment.

I've used Bolton a few times, and it seems to have some potential - nice buildings, plenty of platform cover etc, but it definately seems to fall short of the major station it ought to be. I never saw the original station overbridge building - perhaps they should have rennovated that instead of demolishing. As for the platform buildings - plenty of scope for decent waiting rooms and lavatories. Even a real ale buffet such as at Stalybridge. I'd agree - needs a bit of work.

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Bolton has got to be one of the worst stations in Britain. The ticket office is too small, the Travel centre is only manned as and when there is enough booking office staff available. The false ceiling at the entrance to the station is ready to fall down and has got to be a health and safety risk. According to form there is no CCTV to speak of and no BTP based there. The passenger waiting rooms, toilets and the cafe are a disgrace. It attracts all kinds of druggies, drunks, beggars and general nasty characters especially at night. A major, major lack of investment.

They're doing up Bolton concourse, flattening the Booking Office and Travel Centre and others up there, opening it out, and putting a new cafe in all by the end of this year... also improvements on the paltforms too.

 

[bicbasher]

London Bridge: Try walking from Platforms 15-16 after a downpour in the rush hour to be met by large puddles and a 5 min walk to the gateline.

Not to mention the awful 60s style walkway from the Southern to the Southeastern/FCC platforms which also leak when it rains....

 

[leewoods60019]

i know this is a late reply but I have to say Fitzwilliam (on the wakefield line) is the worst ever station and it's unmanned. basically it's two short platforms with a shelter on each side and a bin on each side and thats it really. the scenary around it is so miserable with trees and rubbish everywhere! defo scary station :P

 

[4SRKT]

i know this is a late reply but I have to say Fitzwilliam (on the wakefield line) is the worst ever station and it's unmanned. basically it's two short platforms with a shelter on each side and a bin on each side and thats it really. the scenary around it is so miserable with trees and rubbish everywhere! defo scary station :P

Well, that whole area scares me a bit, so the station's definitely in keeping!

 

[badger1badger]

bradford interchange !!

 

[Donny Dave]

i know this is a late reply but I have to say Fitzwilliam (on the wakefield line) is the worst ever station and it's unmanned. basically it's two short platforms with a shelter on each side and a bin on each side and thats it really. the scenary around it is so miserable with trees and rubbish everywhere! defo scary station :P

Still better than Kirkgate though !

 

[Aictos]

i know this is a late reply but I have to say Fitzwilliam (on the wakefield line) is the worst ever station and it's unmanned. basically it's two short platforms with a shelter on each side and a bin on each side and thats it really. the scenary around it is so miserable with trees and rubbish everywhere! defo scary station :P

Sounds like Watton at Stone, Bayford and Crews Hill on the Hertford Loop!!!

 

[leewoods60019]

hehe, i'm not sure about Kirkgate actually I've been there so many times yet not set foot on the platform

 

[4SRKT]

hehe, i'm not sure about Kirkgate actually I've been there so many times yet not set foot on the platform

Try to keep it that way. You'll only regret it otherwise!

Ravensthorpe has just come to me in a flash of inspiration, and I don't think anyone else has mentioned it yet.

 

[leewoods60019]

whats bad about kirkgate? lol terrible question but yeah lol

 

[MidnightFlyer]

whats bad about kirkgate? lol terrible question but yeah lol

Whats good about it?! The buildings are crumbling to pieces, it is damp, dark, unsfae, grotty, ugly, haunted (apparently), unstaffed, unloved, horrible... and its full of people like druggies and who'll throw you on the track if you luck at them the wrong way. Women have also been raped there at night. Apart from that it isn't bad

 

[jopsuk]

i know this is a late reply but I have to say Fitzwilliam (on the wakefield line) is the worst ever station and it's unmanned. basically it's two short platforms with a shelter on each side and a bin on each side and thats it really. the scenary around it is so miserable with trees and rubbish everywhere! defo scary station :P

Trees? Positively civilised compared to Angel Road. It has flyovers instead.

 

[leewoods60019]

wow that sounds bad

and fitzwilliam has a bridge over it and takes the monkeys from the platform to the bridge, you kinda walk upto the houses there, then turn right and then theres the bridge and then down the ramp :P and the trees are not nice trees they look depressing to be there lol

 

[jopsuk]

wow that sounds bad

The station is here.

Yes, next to the scrap yard.

The access is only from Conduit Lane, to the north. In fact, only from the North side. The path passes under the road and along the side of the scrapyard to the end of the northbound platform.

 

[4SRKT]

Wakefield Kirkgate would be better replaced by a headshunt for Sheffield > Leeds trains to reverse up to Westgate and go that way. The Leeds > Castleford > Normanton > Sheffield service would be a problem for sure, but maybe that could run up to Westgate as well and just terminate there. The southern end of the service could be a Barnsley > Sheffield short working, and the Leeds > Sheffield (not Nottingham) service could do the hourly Darton stop

Kirkgate station is dirty, dangerous, less well-sited than Westgate, and having two stations in the city reduces connection opportunities. Get rid of it. True, the section from Westgate down to the junction by the viaduct would have to be very much more slickly operated than now, but who's to say it couldn't be done? You'd have 7 trains an hour from Westgate into Leeds, which would be a really great service. Also you'd have to terminate three trains an hour at Westgate (from Huddersfield, Knottingley and Leeds via Normanton), but with the proper use of the sidings north of the station and bi-directional signalling surely this could be achieved.

 

[leewoods60019]

Whats the point in the station wakefield kirkgate anyway? keep the line demolish the station ?

 

[blacknight]

Whats the point in the station wakefield kirkgate anyway? keep the line demolish the station ?

The fact that Wakefield Kirkgate is a listed building may just halt that idea. In defence of Kirkgate its not the building thats the problem just the 2 legged vermin ferral scum that in habit the platforms, when was the last time a building was convicted of GBH or rape.
Time to reclaim station & platforms from the vermin suggest 20mm cannon pacers & Uzi for conductors & summary execution for contravention of railway byelaws, if only Judge Dred ran the route.

 

[MidnightFlyer]

The fact that Wakefield Kirkgate is a listed building may just halt that idea. In defence of Kirkgate its not the building thats the problem just the 2 legged vermin ferral scum that in habit the platforms, when was the last time a building was convicted of GBH or rape.
Time to reclaim station & platforms from the vermin suggest 20mm cannon pacers & Uzi for conductors & summary execution for contravention of railway byelaws, if only Judge Dred ran the route.

if its listed, then why do they let it fall into such poor condish?

 

[blacknight]

if its listed, then why do they let it fall into such poor condish?

Neglect: Building that size takes money to restore & maintain something modern TOC's have an allergy to doing happier with a platform & a bus shelter that smells of urine rather than reopening toilets. Once place smells like a toilet it soon gets used as one.
Lack of civic pride in our Victorian industrial heritage sooner be organising G-L-T/S pride marches.

 

[sheff1]

Wakefield Kirkgate would be better replaced by a headshunt for Sheffield > Leeds trains to reverse up to Westgate and go that way. The Leeds > Castleford > Normanton > Sheffield service would be a problem for sure, but maybe that could run up to Westgate as well and just terminate there. The southern end of the service could be a Barnsley > Sheffield short working, and the Leeds > Sheffield (not Nottingham) service could do the hourly Darton stop

Kirkgate station is dirty, dangerous, less well-sited than Westgate, and having two stations in the city reduces connection opportunities. Get rid of it. True, the section from Westgate down to the junction by the viaduct would have to be very much more slickly operated than now, but who's to say it couldn't be done? You'd have 7 trains an hour from Westgate into Leeds, which would be a really great service. Also you'd have to terminate three trains an hour at Westgate (from Huddersfield, Knottingley and Leeds via Normanton), but with the proper use of the sidings north of the station and bi-directional signalling surely this could be achieved.

Unfortunately, when the ECML was upgraded in the 1980's, a golden opportunity was missed to create one high quality two-level station in Wakefield at the point where the main line crosses the Kirkgate lines on a viaduct. At the time land was available for station buildings, car park, bus stops etc but now the area is covered by retail & industrial parks.

 

[leewoods60019]

I suppose Grand Central could buy the station and possibly make it at least a staffed station with maybe possible extra services from other companys or better still in the near future more for Grand Central, 3 services is a day is typically not enough for it to be such a flexible service

 

[wintonian]

The absolute worst in my experience is Portsmouth and Southsea. Dirty, void of facilities and it's... well in Portsmouth.

Followed closley by Clapham Junction.

 

[Greenback]

The high level is indeed horrible, but I think the lower level is OK! Mind you, i haven;t been there since 2006!

 

[Templecombe]

Dorchester West Stinks of human waste
Exeter St james park
Thornford

 

[MidnightFlyer]

The high level is indeed horrible, but I think the lower level is OK! Mind you, i haven;t been there since 2006!

Nor have I, but remember liking the low platforms/concourse - quite nice; but the through platforms are just awful, ugly

 

[yorksrob]

In a similar vein to Portsmouth (upstairs) I always found the platforms at Dartford to be rather windswept and forlorn.