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Crewe South Junction signal box
Crewe disused abandoned platforms since 1985 remodeling
Crewe disused abandoned platforms since 1985 remodeling
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Saddest Sights on the Railways (Trivia)
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birchesgreen
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A platform heaving with commuters standing in the rain and cold just wanting to get home, and a rusty 2 car Sprinter turns up.
The amount of Graffiti on buildings & bridges along the lines as you travel along.
The part abandoned Masbrough Station buildings & platforms near Rotherham on the avoiding line is a pretty depressing sight
Sounds like Platform 14 at Manchester Piccadilly, not the best place to wait on a cold & rainy day
The part abandoned Masbrough Station buildings & platforms near Rotherham on the avoiding line is a pretty depressing sight
Sounds like Platform 14 at Manchester Piccadilly, not the best place to wait on a cold & rainy day
bramling
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Add Walnut Tree to the latter. It’s quite surreal walking up a dirt track which leads to the portal of the disused Walnut Tree Tunnel (which itself is a sad sight, especially the way it’s been cleanly severed by a quarry), however it’s possible to walk onto the west abutment of the former viaduct and visualise what used to be.
Islineclear3_1
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Indeed, I remember very well the BR days when many stations were really scruffy and run-down (and the trains!) but at least some got a spruce-up from time to time; NSE days were better and the early days of Southern (my neck of the woods) when many stations were spruced up.
Stations with 80% of the platform pointlessly barriered off and gradually disappearing under moss and bushes while the railway insists that you can't have more than 2 carriages because the platform is "too short".
Bits of live main line where the drainage is chronically knackered so the train runs through such a lush green growth of swamp grass that you can't see where the track is and are constantly expecting it to slowly topple over sideways into the marsh.
Complaints about "lack of capacity" over routes which used to have twice or more the number of tracks (and routing possibilities) that they do now, and the immense and tortured collection of spurious reasons why they "can't" just put it back then.
Bits of live main line where the drainage is chronically knackered so the train runs through such a lush green growth of swamp grass that you can't see where the track is and are constantly expecting it to slowly topple over sideways into the marsh.
Complaints about "lack of capacity" over routes which used to have twice or more the number of tracks (and routing possibilities) that they do now, and the immense and tortured collection of spurious reasons why they "can't" just put it back then.
YorksLad12
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Wait until you visit Forster Square. It’s never going to be what it was, but it could be way better.
I haven't been to Perth for many years, it was in a bit of sorry state when I visited it then. You could clearly see it was once a grand building. The unsympathetic aesthetic of the lift and footbridge Network Rail built is pretty poor too.
Bristol LHS
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The new Sunderland station ticket hall is a sad sight, sums up the value engineered rubbish we often get when some money is spent.
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Empty Sunderland railway station 'an embarrassment'
Critics say Sunderland Station is "uninviting" despite undergoing a £27m redevelopment in 2023.
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TT-ONR-NRN
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Genuinely surprises me, I think Perth’s a rather nice station!I haven't been to Perth for many years, it was in a bit of sorry state when I visited it then. You could clearly see it was once a grand building. The unsympathetic aesthetic of the lift and footbridge Network Rail built is pretty poor too.
D6130
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It was once....but it's been terribly neglected for years. I can't remember when it last had a repaint on the Highland side.
Falcon1200
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A sad sight, in a different way, is what's left in the Barrhead area of the Caledonian Railway's viaducts, built for a line which never fully, or in part, opened or ever saw much traffic. A complete waste of money!
pitdiver
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The saddest sight for me was when a couple of years ago I saw the aftermath of a person who had been hit by a train. This was a Flitwick. I was warned by an official not to look but I did anyway. My thoughts were with the family. Of the deceased but also with the driver of the train.
All I will say it was not a pleasant sight. That's coming from an ex LUL station supervisor.
All I will say it was not a pleasant sight. That's coming from an ex LUL station supervisor.
xotGD
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Look on the bright side - once you've entered the station you are one step closer to leaving Sunderland.The new Sunderland station ticket hall is a sad sight, sums up the value engineered rubbish we often get when some money is spent.
Empty Sunderland railway station 'an embarrassment'
Critics say Sunderland Station is "uninviting" despite undergoing a £27m redevelopment in 2023.
It must be dreadful for those at the depot having to clean body parts from the front and underside of the train plus track maintenance staff (?) who have to remove parts from the track. It is now such a common occurrence.
vic-rijrode
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Says somebody that presumably either has never been there or is from Newcastle...
Equally sad is all the unrecovered material and scrap rail left lying around the lineside.
The new Sunderland station ticket hall is a sad sight, sums up the value engineered rubbish we often get when some money is spent.
Empty Sunderland railway station 'an embarrassment'
Critics say Sunderland Station is "uninviting" despite undergoing a £27m redevelopment in 2023.
The ticket hall seems decent enough, but there doesn't seem to be much in the way of facilities
xotGD
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Just across the Tyne, in fact.
Oh it is, it just looked like it had been neglected and not maintained as well as it should be, when I visited and needed a bit of TLC.
Strathclyder
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At the moment, the Gordon/Union Street entrances to Glasgow Central and a good portion of the main concourse still cordoned off. Not likely to return to full use before the end of July either, when the demolition and removal of the remains of Union Corner is meant to finally finish. After that, what will be left is another gap site right in the middle of perhaps the most prominent cross-roads/meeting places in the city and a terrible, yet fitting welcome for visitors once they step off their train.
Despite knowing that a massive bullet was dodged that night in that Central was saved, the scars of March 8th/9th 2026 will linger for a long time.
Despite knowing that a massive bullet was dodged that night in that Central was saved, the scars of March 8th/9th 2026 will linger for a long time.
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D6130
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That's putting it mildly!
GRALISTAIR
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It being Crewe. All the AC electrics used to make it exciting imho. Done a few overnights on there in the 1970s.
D365
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I was under the impression that the APT tilt functionality has been restored for demonstration purposes.
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Other than some third party steam and diesel overhauls, Carnforth has not been associated with preservation since 1997.
Surely you mean the scrapping of 4-EPB stock? That has to be the biggest tragedy.