May I start with this ugly, cheap slab of nasty plastic roofing and concrete? And it's a terminus for fuck's sake.
The terminus bit of it is okay but the through platforms badly need the planned refurbishment work...
Easy Croydon its ugly, i wish they could have kept it how it used to be when i was little. http://i.pbase.com/u17/peltz/upload/42323991.DSCF6263.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3281/2769732105_b92764ab3d.jpg?v=0
That went up in 1997 when I was at Epping Forest College. It was because of the sheer amount of students that were vaulting the fences to avoid paying!
I've never seen it from the outside. Inside feels like a underground warren occuppied by ratpeople. I give you Dundee: It's only architectural merit being it reflects some trees.
Anyone who says it's anything other than New St clearly hasn't been there. It's a shithole with no redeeming feature whatsoever, and from what I can see the plans to renovate it will make fuck all difference as they're just making the concourse a bit nicer, the fundamental problems with the design of the platforms aren't being addressed.
All those little stations between Sutton and Wimbledon on the Thameslink are pretty bad however Morden South is the worst. Although you do now have the Mosque which at least is interesting to look at
It probably looked better without all those ugly bus shelters racked up in front of the station. Euston is spectacularly ugly too, especially considering what it once looked like.
Birmingham New St for me too. Do you remember Dundee in its pre-improvement 70's glory? Grim as fuck IMO. Corrour Station always struck me as a wee bit bleak:
Unmanned suburban stations covered in graffiti and piss don't count, because there's 100's of the fuckers This thread should be about the shittiness:importance ratio. Which is why New Street wins. Busiest station outside of London and a complete dump compared to any of them (even Euston)
Good point - that does discount all the Thameslink ones (and Mitcham Junction) but they are kind of glorified bus shlters to be honest so it is a bit unfair to include them
I agree. Euston is soulless and not particularly pleasant to look at, but at least it feels fairly spacious and light, unlike the gloom and diesel fumes of New Street.
There's not much to see outside, the station is all underneath a shopping centre. Changing the platforms is gonna be a disruption and almost impossible considering where they are I would've thought. This is what the outsides going to be like apparently (at moment it's not disimilar to that pic of London Bridge, but with taxis instead of buses)
Oxford Station - thought it was going to be a pretty "Railway Children" style place but is horribly plastic inside with hardly anywhere to get a drink
Wow! What a loss. I didn't know that other London stations were grand (other than St Pancras, I mean). Was it bombed, do we know? Or did they actually decide to get rid of it?
Yeah, the problem is the shopping centre on top of it. To do anything meaningful to the place they need to get rid of it, which won't happen in a million years.
