Examples of disused station - still unused

[deltic]

Is Manchester Mayfield the biggest disused station which is virtually still intact despite not being used for any purpose.

Highgate Station in London albeit much smaller is similar - still there and vacant despite being closed for 50 years plus?

 

[WatcherZero]

Are you going by intact platforms or intact buildings?

 

[deltic]

intact builidings

 

[yorksrob]

Lydd Town in Kent is currently intact yet disused.

 

[W-on-Sea]

Tilbury Riverside (closed 1992. but still substantially intact) has to be in the reckoning. Not an unattractive building, either
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...=vb86DJFIu5wxIuGpy8G_WA&cbp=12,219.86,,0,-0.8

 

[Johnny Lewis]

Does Newhaven Marine count???????

 

[W-on-Sea]

The original Leigh-on-Sea station, which closed in the mid-1930s (when it was replaced by the new Leigh station and by Chalkwell) is also substantially intact, a good 75 years after closure. Part of it is now, I think, a scout hall.

Not a great pic (for some reason Google streetview haven't photographed Leigh High Street, the most photogenic street for miles around), but I think part of the building can be seen in the background here

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...=W8-YXRw7HmsFK4XL6dqEdw&cbp=11,193.91,,0,4.39

 

[yorksrob]

Does Newhaven Marine count???????

Yes, it should. As should Folkestone Harbour - or at least it was, last time I looked.

 

[W-on-Sea]

And of course you have this wonderful building, just a few minutes walk from King's Cross in London: York Road tube, which closed in 1932
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...d=y0YDAs4LsCTMRALLeDutTg&cbp=12,70.74,,0,-1.4

 

[Bittern]

intact builidings

Bridgeton Central's min building is still intact. Passed it today on a bus!

 

[The Snap]

Is Manchester Mayfield the biggest disused station which is virtually still intact

It's hardly 'intact' . But I know what you mean, I'm just being pedantic. I can't think of a bigger example...

Although, Rotherham Masborough still has all four platforms and a complete station building!

 

[Oracle]

Osterley & Spring Grove on the Piccadilly Line still has its platforms and I think the station building is still a bookshop.

 

[Cherry_Picker]

Curzon Street station in central Birmingham deserves a mention. Its almost 200 years old now (opened 1838) and it's a massive building, the gigantic oversized door and windows make it look like a dolls house in photographs, but it really is an impressive sight when you are standing in front of it.
Platforms are still intact too, I think it was used for parcels until the sixties. Maybe we will see HS2 trains terminate there in a few years time...

 

[Tin Rocket]

Rushton old station on the MML,i think a local historical society have managed to aquire it now.
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Gretton on the kettering-manton line and also Seaton????on the old rugby-peterborough

 

[swt_passenger]

Maybe we will see HS2 trains terminate there in a few years time...

Only if you completely ignore all the detailed drawings showing the entrances to the new station in Moor St.

The DfT seem to have raised a lot of hopes about this building by repeatedly misnaming the location of the new station - sometimes makes you wonder if they have ever been to Birmingham...

 

[Cherry_Picker]

Well Curzon Street isnt actually on Curzon Street either! Its on the corner of Albert St and New Canal Street. Curzon Street just runs alongside it.

I havent seen the maps, but I know that part of Birmingham very well and I understand the "new" terminus is proposed to be a couple of hundred yards down the road from the old Curzon Street buildings towards Moor Steet station/the Bullring. I really must have a look at the maps some time soon though.

 

[matchmaker]

The second Bridge Street Station in Glasgow

http://www.scotcities.com/railways/bridgest.htm

Scroll down the page a bit. Opened 1890, closed 1906!

 

[Spaceflower]

Does Wakefield Kirkgate count?

 

[driver9000]

Waterloo International? I always viewed International as a separate station to the domestic side of Waterloo because of the segregated access to it although technically part of Waterloo buildings.

Midge Hall on the Preston to Ormskirk line.

 

[swt_passenger]

Southampton Terminus (building) is still there, converted into flats.

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I havent seen the maps, but I know that part of Birmingham very well and I understand the "new" terminus is proposed to be a couple of hundred yards down the road from the old Curzon Street buildings towards Moor Steet station/the Bullring. I really must have a look at the maps some time soon though.

400m platforms reach from the site of the old Curzon St platforms all the way to Moor St, with a bridge over, and entrances on either side of Moor St.
Map is here, the Curzon St building is shown: http://highspeedrail.dft.gov.uk/sites/highspeedrail.dft.gov.uk/files/HS2-ARP-00-DR-RW-04233.pdf

 

[Cherry_Picker]

That map is as clear as mud, though it might be because I am opening it in Google Docs.

This is quite interesting though. Found here.

The building is going to have to be huge then, isnt it?

I just scrawled on the map what it is in my minds eye. New station is red, old Curzon Street building in green. It's all side streets behind that and the Think Tank/IMAX on the other side of the road. Any car parking will almost certainly have to in the area where the platforms at Curzon Street currently are. If it does get built then my drive into work is going to be disrupted for months! :-x