Britain's loveliest railway station?

[Nearly Sane]

Is it Wemyss Bay as is argued here?



http://www.countrylife.co.uk/architecture/britains-great-railway-stations-167964

[jeremyp]

Well I can tell you for a fact, that Temple Meades is not a contender. It looks great form the outside, but it's quite dark and dingy on the inside.

[Nearly Sane]

It's an age since I've been to Temple Meads so will take your word.

[floo]

Well I can tell you for a fact, that Temple Meades is not a contender. It looks great form the outside, but it's quite dark and dingy on the inside.

I haven't been there for years, but I used to use it frequently when in Bristol for nine months in 1968.

[Shaker]

My vote: https://tinyurl.com/y7g8l2tk

[Owlswing]

Well I can tell you for a fact, that Temple Meades is not a contender. It looks great form the outside, but it's quite dark and dingy on the inside.

I've been to Temple Meads a couple of times - my older daughter lives in Bath and likes some of the Bristol shops - and I could not agree more!

[Owlswing]

Kings Cross, London!

It is home to the Harry Potter Platform 9 3/4 shop!

(My younger daughter is one of the photographers there - pictures of tourists with the luggage trolley halfway into the wall!) -  most of the customers are adults!

[ProfessorDavey]

Is it Wemyss Bay as is argued here?



http://www.countrylife.co.uk/architecture/britains-great-railway-stations-167964

Wemyss Bay is lovely - with the added advantage of being able to change from train to boat.

[SteveH]

40-something years ago, I used to commute daily via Manchester Oxford Road, one of the stations mentioned. It was rather shabby then, but I loved its design, like a miniature Sydney Opera House. I haven't seen it for decades, but recent photos of it indicate that it's been smartened up and modernised considerably, without losing its distinctive look. I see from the text that Simon Jenkins compares it with Sydney Opera House, as well.

[jeremyp]

Wemyss Bay as is argued here?

From the photos it looks beautiful. Reminds me a bit of Lewes but has a much better ceiling.

[Humph Warden Bennett]

Is it Wemyss Bay as is argued here?



http://www.countrylife.co.uk/architecture/britains-great-railway-stations-167964

No.

I repeat my contribution to the Graun article:

Loughborough Junction

Nowhere near the terrifying dull Leicestershire town of that name, this strange place located somewhere between Brixton, and Camberwell, has everything that a railway anorak could want, six railway bridges can be seen from the remaining two platforms still in use, whilst the long closed other platforms bear crumbling silent witness to an area which was once a nice place to live. Indeed, those crumbling platforms contain more greenery than is common to this part of sarf Lardun. There is even a mysterious building, three storeys high, also long empty, whose purpose at the station has been unknown for more than one hundred years.

Don't be put off by those who claim that the area is ghetto, you are perfectly safe so long as you are the only person on the station at any given time.

[ProfessorDavey]

No.

I repeat my contribution to the Graun article:

Loughborough Junction

Elephant & Castle, Loughborough Junction, Herne Hill, Tulse Hill ...

Trips off the tongue. Never got off at Loughborough Junction, but neither Elephant & Castle nor Herne Hill never caught my attention. Tulse Hill however seemed to have a platform that had subsided so much you needed a ladder in some places just to board the train.

[SusanDoris]

Sounds as if you're playing Mornington Crescent!!

[ProfessorDavey]

Sounds as if you're playing Mornington Crescent!!

No, can't be Mornington Crescent as that is about the tube and everyone knows that the tube (like taxis) barely go south of the river.

More like a long forgotten verse from The Slow Train by Flanders and Swan.

[Walter]

Oakworth does it for me