Reply to: What is your favourite train station?

[GazCol]

Manchester Victoria, before they've attempted to improve it. It just screamed "This is the north, this is Manchester, this is grim." as you approached it.

[FiveTimes]

I quite like wigan north western or wigan wallgate

[chef]

Or LlanfairPG for short!

or "just around the coast from Barmouth" as a better description

[psychocandy]

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Or LlanfairPG for short!

[Smartie]

I don't have my photos around but...

File:UK longest railway sign.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[doodab]

A few town councils are enterprising enough to carry on allowing street musicians to play, markets with low stand rents, and a few, like Deventer have managed to keep some backstreets out of the hands of huge 'investment funds' that rent premises to huge chains and demand such high deposits and rent that new businesses can't hope to use them.

That is one of the things I liked about living in Marylebone. It's got it's fair share of upmarket boutiques but the De Walden estate were quite enlightened when it comes to attracting and more importantly keeping the smaller more specialist businesses that have been there for years. The little electrical / hardware shop that sells light bulbs, hoover bags and so on.

[Mich the Tester]

Haarlem Station in the Netherlands is also rather nice; the only Jugendstil station in NL. It's just a shame it's used by a tulipe company like the Dutch railways.

Our village has a rather nice station building; happily while the station still operates the old station building has been kept out of the hands of tulipe And Useless Rail Company, but is leased by a young couple who run a decent pub in it.

[eek]

I don't have my photos around but Haydarpaşa Terminal in Istanbul is by far my favourite interior.

is a reasonable example

[scooterscot]

Many a memory travelling through a snow covered Crianlarich on a Sunday back down to the big smoke (Glasgow) during my uni years after spending every other weekend at home. The longest three hours ever.



I've always enjoyed arriving into Venice by train. Everybody should do so at least once.

[Mich the Tester]

The architecture of the old London termini is lovely but they are all full of the same old chains of shops and have lost a lot of their charm. They aren't actually particularly nice places to be.

The architecture of many European towns and cities is wonderful but so many are filled with the same old chains of shops that you really have to search to find something different. A couple of places here in Holland have some interesting independent 'boutiques' where Lady Tester likes to shop, like Deventer or Den Bosch or the 'Nine Streets' in Amsterdam but otherwise it's all the same old chains selling the same old branded stuff like shirts sewn together by 6 year olds in Cambodia with vacuous bulltulip like 'Genuine Authentic Original Sailing Club' plastered all over them.

A few town councils are enterprising enough to carry on allowing street musicians to play, markets with low stand rents, and a few, like Deventer have managed to keep some backstreets out of the hands of huge 'investment funds' that rent premises to huge chains and demand such high deposits and rent that new businesses can't hope to use them.

[gingerjedi]

Temple Meads or the cetral one in Rome but only because it means I've arrived in Rome.

[Mich the Tester]

I also rather like Sao Bento station in Porto;

[Mich the Tester]

Antwerp is quite impressive;

[doodab]

Kyoto. Nice building, and a fantastic food court. You could eat 3 meals a day there for a month and not get bored. As long as you like Japanese food of course

The fact you can get the shinkansen is pretty cool as well.

The architecture of the old London termini is lovely but they are all full of the same old chains of shops and have lost a lot of their charm. They aren't actually particularly nice places to be.

[Scrag Meister]

St Pancras is definitely beautiful, saw a program a couple of months ago that said that is was nearly torn down.

That would have been a great loss if it had been.

Grand Central is definitely one to behold though.