Reply to: Railway Stations...

[threaded]

Didn't get a good start when they named it after a disease.

Nearly correct.

When you have mumps you get a certain expression, much like beggars put on when they want to get you to give them money.

[Mich the Tester]

Oldham Mumps.

Didn't get a good start when they named it after a disease.

[shaunbhoy]

Carnforth station is also redolent of a bygone age and has fallen into rack and ruin. Interestingly, it was the station used in Brief Encounter and the famous clock still exists drawing Japanese tourists from all over the world. Bit of a let down really; went there last year on a steam up - though you get a good view of the yards from the end of Platform 1. Interestingly, it was featured in that progamme David Mellor did where he travelled to all the places that featured in the very first national rail timetable.

Uh-Oh!!! Trainspotter Alert!!

[BA to the Stars]

Carnforth station is also redolent of a bygone age and has fallen into rack and ruin. Interestingly, it was the station used in Brief Encounter and the famous clock still exists drawing Japanese tourists from all over the world. Bit of a let down really; went there last year on a steam up - though you get a good view of the yards from the end of Platform 1. Interestingly, it was featured in that progamme David Mellor did where he travelled to all the places that featured in the very first national rail timetable.

It was Michael Portillo

[BA to the Stars]

Oldham Mumps.

Is that the station where the bridge over the road proudly boasts "Welcome to Oldham - Home of the Tubular Bandage"

[shaunbhoy]

I've actually used Katowice train station and it is way better than Swindon.

I too have used both. You may well be right.

[threaded]

Katowice in Poland.
Tried to get a ticket to Warsaw from there, and on the floor directly adjacent to the one ticket booth that was open, lay a drunken Polish couple. They had clearly been there for quite some time, had consumed presumably litres of industrial strength Vodka, and had deemed the need to de-slurry themselves in the toilets a step too far, preferring to let matters take their course!
That said, once aboard the train it was punctual if rather spartan, and very well priced. So not all bad.

I've actually used Katowice train station and it is way better than Swindon.

[shaunbhoy]

Katowice in Poland.
Tried to get a ticket to Warsaw from there, and on the floor directly adjacent to the one ticket booth that was open, lay a drunken Polish couple. They had clearly been there for quite some time, had consumed presumably litres of industrial strength Vodka, and had deemed the need to de-slurry themselves in the toilets a step too far, preferring to let matters take their course!
That said, once aboard the train it was punctual if rather spartan, and very well priced. So not all bad.

[Churchill]

Oldham Mumps.

[Gonzo]

Stratford london: not a nice place

I agree Stratford is bad but it is not as bad as it used to be and its future does look pretty bright.

All the East London overland stations used to be pretty horrible. Silvertown stands out to me as being pretty grim, not just the station but the whole process of travelling to and from it. It doesn't really look any worse now it is no longer in use.

any of the Outer London surface train stations, Woodgrange Park in particular.

I used to think that one wasn't too bad, it was just up the road from me 20 years ago but I only used it once or twice because I rarely had cause to use the route it is on.


For pure grimness I don't think you will beat changing trains at Westbury on a dark and cold winter's night.

[PRC1964]

Tiverton Parkway.

<shudder>

Thank god they only made me to go there once.

[DaveB]

Birmingham Newstreet, any of the Outer London surface train stations, Woodgrange Park in particular.

[mudskipper]

Basingstoke

WSS. Misinformation and barstardry abound.

[stek]

Bolton...always end up there when there's problems with the trains...

really depressing place, but then so is Bolton.

Watch it - my hometown....

Agree tho

[BlasterBates]

Bolton...always end up there when there's problems with the trains...

really depressing place, but then so is Bolton.