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Most miserable train/tube/bus station in london?

Pah! You don't know miserable!

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

Angel Road

Between an empty factory and a scrapyard. Approached, IIRC, by a metre-wide footpath with two-metre wire fences on either side.



Obviously, someone may be able to find someting grimmer in Sarflunnun - but I doubt it :(
 
Thora said:
Actually I recently went to Hackney Wick to look at renting warehouse live/work space :rolleyes: :o So the gentrification is starting! It was far to bleak and shockingly expensive for me though - looks like lots of art student types are moving in so the yuppie flats can't be far behind.
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funnily enough, that's why i was there, we're building there, social housing,shared ownership and for sale stuff
 
brix said:
Woolwich Dockyard Station is pretty blooming grim. Haven't been to HW so can't compare.
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my vote too - never had to use it much fortunately as my station was the next one down but still . . . at least HW is out in the open . . .
 
Thora said:
Actually I recently went to Hackney Wick to look at renting warehouse live/work space :rolleyes: :o So the gentrification is starting! It was far to bleak and shockingly expensive for me though - looks like lots of art student types are moving in so the yuppie flats can't be far behind.
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thats been going on for years in HW
 
brix said:
Yep, that does look pretty grim :eek: http://content.answers.com/main/con...b/6/67/300px-Angel_road_railway_station_1.jpg
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Yup:

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Makes Hackney Wick look positively welcoming.


Unless you're afeared of people who live in Hackney. If you are: good, fuck off, 'cos if you weren't afeared you'd be right in there, gentrifying. Boo!
 
Ponders End and Angel Road overground are pretty godforsaken. Luckily not many people will ever have to get on and off at them. And people who live round there might get immune to it.
 
sam/phallocrat said:
my vote too - never had to use it much fortunately as my station was the next one down but still . . . at least HW is out in the open . . .
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Yeah, it's that semi-subterranean feel that makes it particularly creepy. If you were mugged on any other station at least there would be a chance of witnesses. No chance in Woolwich Dockyard.
 
Chairman Meow said:
I used to hate Morden station with a passion, mainly because I was stupid enough to live there.:(
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Oh the nights I have spent waiting for the 157 bus and watching punters from Jack Stamps Beer House (or whatever it is now called) weeing in the gutter across the road!

I also like the fact that the Wetherspoons there was so scuzzy it had to be closed down!

Though funnily enough I never minded the station. It was just the surroundings.

As for my vote then St. Helier, West Sutton or Morden South - all on the Thameslink line. Scummy Line (except when you get nice views of the City), scummy stations
 
QueenOfGoths said:
Oh the nights I have spent waiting for the 157 bus and watching punters from Jack Stamps Beer House (or whatever it is now called) weeing in the gutter across the road!

I also like the fact that the Wetherspoons there was so scuzzy it had to be closed down!
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Really? That's hilarious.:D That Jack Stamps was surely one of the most depressing pubs ever. Although my 'local', the Beverley was worse. Christ I hated that pub - bouncers even during the day, regular fights and stabbings, a kids playground lightly sprinkled with broken glass.. ahh.. .the memories.:D
 
South Bermondsey was without a doubt the grimmest station I've ever had to use. I'm not a wuss but I always felt really fucking nervous there when I was there at night and it's the only place I've ever had any hassle :( Not used it for about 6 years though so it may be better now (but I doubt it!)
 
I still reckon Homerton would edge it over Hackney Wick, though it's a close contest admittedly - would probably go to penalties.
 
Iver.

First time I met my mate near his new flat we went for a few beers. Kicked out at closing time he pointed in the general direction of the station. Thirty minutes later of stumbling towards what looked like a industrial estate I arrived at this grey, concrete horror of a station.

The forty minutes wait for the train didn't help.
 
Chairman Meow said:
Really? That's hilarious.:D That Jack Stamps was surely one of the most depressing pubs ever. Although my 'local', the Beverley was worse. Christ I hated that pub - bouncers even during the day, regular fights and stabbings, a kids playground lightly sprinkled with broken glass.. ahh.. .the memories.:D
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Never been in the Beverley and by the sounds of it I'm glad!

Apparantly the toilets in Jack Stamps were quite often broken or flooded (my husband worked for the local council and Jack Stamps was, for a time, the council workers regular drinking hole) and so people would find alternatives - mainly the gutter!

I witnessed it twice - one was a poor old fellow with a zimmer frame who hobbled out to the kerb, unzipped and did his business. All the time hanging onto the zimmer frame with one hand. It was surreal and kind of tragic. The other was just some 'normal' drunk bloke who obviously thought the gutter was nice than the toilets. Which I gather it was!
 
MysteryGuest said:
I still reckon Homerton would edge it over Hackney Wick, though it's a close contest admittedly - would probably go to penalties.
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Agreed.
I actually don't mind H.Wick station as I associate it with loads of nice parties in the area :)
I also feel safer waiting for a train there on my own than I would at Hommerton.
 
when it comes to central London, I'd vote for Kings Cross Thameslink. Just nasty in all round way.
 
Angel Road gets my vote, it's right next to ikea.

Acton Main Line is pretty nasty, too.
 
Platform 5 at London Bridge deserves a mention all of it's own.

It's grim, the one male loo of the station reeks disinfectant over the masses, the 12 seats evenly spread among the three hundred waiting for the last train to Croydon, the "gasp" as the train, late as always, arrives along with an apology for only being four carriages.
 
I'd have to agree that Hackney Wick is pretty dismal. Homerton, too.

As far as functionality goes, I'd have to say Edgware Road is the most ridiculous. Millions of platforms with no clear indication which one you should get on. And I've never once had a train either turn up or depart within 15 minutes of being at that station. Ever.

How do people in West London cope? Do they just go the other way?

Anyway, Hackney Wick might have hope now that London Underground's taken over Silverlink. There's Oyster up at our end now, and they were even painting the station a neutral white. They've covered up the Silverlink on the trains, as well, and just wrote London Overground. :)
 
Monkeygrinder's Organ said:
It's closed full stop as far as I know. The Thameslink trains are going to St Pancras now and they were the only ones to stop there.
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Really? seems a bit of a waste
 
Essex Road is one of the creepiest, most unnerving stations in London. Something about the way you're always stuck in a curving underground whitewashed tunnel which twists out of sight within 20 paces in either direction. There is always the distant echoing sound of other people along the tunnels but you never see anyone; last time I was there the people were, I kid you not, laughing maniacally, and then an intimidating drunk guy came up and had a go at myself and my s.o. in the lifts.

I'd also vote for Homerton and pretty much any station east of Leyton on the Gospel Oak to Barking line.
 
nipsla said:
South Bermondsey was without a doubt the grimmest station I've ever had to use. I'm not a wuss but I always felt really fucking nervous there when I was there at night and it's the only place I've ever had any hassle :( Not used it for about 6 years though so it may be better now (but I doubt it!)
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I use it pretty often as a mate lives there. It's still the same. The best thing about it are the views to Canary Wharf and the City.

I never, ever go home in the dark on it. I take a long bus ride instead :(
 
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