Worst London mainline terminal

[innit]

I like London Bridge, at least it's got character.

You are so unbelievably wrong.

 

[Onket]

You are so unbelievably wrong.

I've heard that before.

 

[strung out]

I like London Bridge, at least it's got character.

i don't like it because i got in on platform 3 one day and had to catch another train on platform 16 a few minutes later. i never did catch that connection

 

[kyser_soze]

If London Bridge was a character, it'd be from the 1970s. That whole brown metal thing, and the totally non-matching walkway from the concourse to the through platforms just scream 1970s brown.

Kings X is getting better, St Pancras is gorgeous, Waterloo and Victoria need some tidying round the edges, but I love Victorian train shed terminii, Charing X used to be nice, now it's fucking horrible (altho the Farrel PWC offices are ), but for me Liverpool St is my fave, cos of the walkway - great for people watching.

 

[Onket]

Marylebone is clearly the best.

 

[strung out]

i quite like marylebone. fond memories from monopoly

 

[Roadkill]

Marylebone is clearly the best.

That I do agree with. It's by far the pleasantest main line station in London. It's mildly ironic that that's because it was a commercial failure...

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Kings Cross for me - horrible dive of a place with nowhere to sit and nowhere decent to get a coffee, a sandwich or anything. It's only redeeming feature is its proximity to St. Pancras.

Victoria is just soul destroying - though at least there are, albeit limited, opportunities for wasting time shopping there. It also contains one of the worst Wetherspoons ever. And that is even after being familiar with the now defunct Morden one!

Paddington is a bit of a mess at the moment due to all the work they are doing and it is annoying if you are running late and find the train you want is going from Platforms 13 or 14 which means walking nearly as far as Southall to get too (okay a slight exaggeration, but only slight ). However Sainsburys and M&S are useful if I have forgetten to get any food and it does contain a rather nice pub - The Mad Bishop and Bear.

Don't really know any of the others.

 

[kyser_soze]

Kings Cross for me - horrible dive of a place with nowhere to sit and nowhere decent to get a coffee, a sandwich or anything. It's only redeeming feature is its proximity to St. Pancras.

Yeah, but you can step outside and within 100m buy a couple of rocks.

 

[Griff]

I just hate Liverpool St. as it's the one I've used the most.

 

[kyser_soze]

Still not as bad as The North tho

 

[porno thieving gypsy]

I hate Liverpool Street

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Still not as bad as The North tho

That is why Kings X is so shit - prepares you for where you are traveling to

Although Leeds Station has been revamped in recent years, they even have escalators - or the 'devil's staircases' as they are known in Yorkshire!

 

[Roadkill]

That is why Kings X is so shit - prepares you for where you are traveling to

 

[QueenOfGoths]

I know - it was a joke about dodgy northern rail stations

 

[Roadkill]

I know - it was a joke about dodgy northern rail stations

Which merits one response - Clapham Junction!

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Which merits one response - Clapham Junction!

Now that is a shitty station

 

[toblerone3]

Kings Cross for me - horrible dive of a place with nowhere to sit and nowhere decent to get a coffee, a sandwich or anything. It's only redeeming feature is its proximity to St. Pancras.

I would agree that Kings Cross station is in itself not good but if you draw a 500 metre circle around the station the area around Kings Cross is by the far the most interesting (bars, galleries, shops, museums) of any the London terminii.

 

[davesgcr]

The area around KX is a damn site less edgy than it was say 10 year ago - the worst thing there being dicing with death trying to avoid the traffic.

Still some interesting shops . bookshops , reasonable pubs etc around there - "all tastes catered for" as they used to say for the Waterloo area ...


Some of us can remember the old terminii - the old Liverpool St had the ambience of the blitz on a winters evening - ........Paddington is hugely improved now you dont get semi gassed with the old diesel trains , Euston is still a semi - clinical box redeemed by better quality boozers around and about Drummond St.

Even Blackfriars has "The Blackfriar" ....

I am tempted to do a Fawlty Towers rant and ask what people really want from stations - "wilderbeest rampaging majestically across the veldt etc"

 

[zenie]

Waterloo - A terrifying and baffling ordeal

Why?

 

[Jazzz]

London Bridge is not much fun really I have to say.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

London Bridge gets my vote for being fugly and not having any proper toilets
.

I voted London Bridge too, but its one saving grace is the presence of (free!) toilets on the platform. But it manages to feel cold and dark on the brightest of summer days.

Marylebone is a very charming station. Most others are varying degrees of horrible. France does train stations much better than us.

 

[berniedicters]

Is that absolutely necessary?!

No.

But I told them it'd really piss you off if they went for it, and we were having a bit of a laugh about it, so...

 

[Culdee]

Why?

Partly an exaggeration for effect. But the concourse always seems like a really bad use of space - too many people coming from too many different directions spin you round like a top into the wall of those really badly sited shops in the middle of it.And the approaches are almost uniformly rubbish.

 

[ChrisFilter]

It's tricky. I hate Euston, Victoria is ok but there are always so many delays.

I like London Bridge, it means I'm 15 mins from home, but in its own right it's a bit pants.

 

[London_Calling]

The artists impressions of the new London Bridge are pretty impressive - after the whole Shard thing so some years off.

I like the way old and new has been combined at Paddy and even Liverpool St.

 

[scifisam]

For me it used to be London Bridge, but that's not so bad now they've put more ticket machines in. The rest of the stations are absolutely fine, though I've never used Blackfriars so that could be a shithole for all I know.

 

[beeboo]

At the moment, King's Cross is the worst, although that's partly down to the re-development - guess it's got to get worse before it gets better. Nowhere near enough space, concourse gets absolutely packed, people with suitcases falling over each other's feet. Barely anywhere to buy a sandwich or anything.

London Bridge is pretty miserable. Maybe it's because it's my regular station, but it's got none of that sense of the possiblity of travel - it's just commuters shuffling about. But at least it's fairly functional.

 

[echoecho]

I quite like Victoria. Probably due to fond memories of travelling to nice places from there, but it's big and airy and at least there's plenty of places to browse or sit down in while waiting for a delayed train.

The same cannot be said for London Bridge which I hate, with its silly footbridge and badly placed departure boards and pigeon shit.

 

[London_Calling]

The new Lodon Bridge Station: