Ugly railway stations

[Fr.Bigley]

Also, the new south entrance also looks like those robot/alien things at the beginning of The Fifth Element.

[Gulftastic]

They are currently adding a platform zero. They might have finished it by now.

[The Culture Bunker]

My brother and his family live in Leeds, so I've done a fair bit of jaunting between there and Piccadilly. However, recently I've taken to taking the route via Bradford as it's about a third of the cost and only 20 minutes longer. And for such a fairly large city, Bradford does have two utterly boring train stations. 

[Fr.Bigley]

My brother and his family live in Leeds, so I've done a fair bit of jaunting between there and Piccadilly. However, recently I've taken to taking the route via Bradford as it's about a third of the cost and only 20 minutes longer. And for such a fairly large city, Bradford does have two utterly boring train stations.

I got offered for a fight in that station at 10am on a Monday morning by a woman in her 50's dressed respectably but absolutely smashed out of her head. Needless to say I wont go back in a rush.

[Fr.Bigley]

*Foster square station

[petril]

The Hag Fold one reminded me a little of the slightly sinister looking entrance to Ardwick station, just a few hundred yards or so out of Piccadilly. Perhaps one of the most pointless stations featured here too:

I don't care what evidence comes up, that picture was taken in 1991

[phes]

One of the things I liked most about Leeds before the South entrance is how all platforms either directly or via the bridge funnelled towards the same departure boards and gates. If you were meeting people to depart or waiting for them to arrive you could make informal arrangements and half the fun was looking for them in the crowds as they poured by

[Fr.Bigley]

One of the things I liked most about Leeds before the South entrance is how all platforms either directly or via the bridge funnelled towards the same departure boards and gates. If you were meeting people to depart or waiting for them to arrive you could make informal arrangements and half the fun was looking for them in the crowds as they poured by

Yeah I totally get what you mean there. It is a bit more of a warren now.

[sevendaughters]

What do we think about New Street now? Inside is probably one of the better ones to get stuck at nowadays. It still honks at platform level but generally am glad to change there rather than Smethwick.

[Gurke and Hare]

The Hag Fold one reminded me a little of the slightly sinister looking entrance to Ardwick station, just a few hundred yards or so out of Piccadilly. Perhaps one of the most pointless stations featured here too:

That picture reminds me of - but sadly isn't - the street in Manchester where street view briefly showed a man getting a hand job in the street. You can certainly imagine it happening there.

[sevendaughters]

That picture reminds me of - but sadly isn't - the street in Manchester where street view briefly showed a man getting a hand job in the street. You can certainly imagine it happening there.

I presume where that shot is taken is where Mark E Smith refers to in 'Wings'

Ended up under Ardwick Bridge.
With some veterans from the U.S. Civil War.
They were under Irish patronage.
We shot dead a stupid sergeant,
but I got hit in the crossfire

Presume this means he was pissed.

[Glebe]

Manchester Piccadilly

Ah right, soz. Just immediately thought 'Piccadilly Circus'.

[The Culture Bunker]

I presume where that shot is taken is where Mark E Smith refers to in 'Wings'

Presume this means he was pissed.

I suspect it's referring to an incident in 1867, which took place on nearby Hyde Road (now also the A57):

"On 18 September 1867 it was the scene of an attack upon a prison van carrying two Fenian prisoners to the former Belle Vue gaol (jail). One police officer was shot dead. Three Irishmen involved in the affray were caught, tried and executed. The men are referred to by their supporters as the "Manchester Martyrs"."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardwick

[A Hat Like That]

Used to live right by Ardwick Station.

Now there's three brewery taps along the railway arches.

Anyway, this site does the station some justice: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~owend/interests/rail/stnpages/ardwick.html

[A Hat Like That]

What do we think about New Street now? Inside is probably one of the better ones to get stuck at nowadays. It still honks at platform level but generally am glad to change there rather than Smethwick.

Smethwick Galton Bridge's waiting rooms are hilariously shite.

Not done any truly grim West Mids./Black Country stations in a while.

[buzby]

I presume where that shot is taken is where Mark E Smith refers to in 'Wings'

Presume this means he was pissed.

The Ardwick Bridge referred to in Wings is the railway bridge about 250m south of Ardwick station that carries the Manchester-Crewe main line over Hyde Road (now the A57), where the Manchester Martyrs incident posted by TCB took place. It was referred to by locals after the incident as the Fenian Arch: