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For me, it’s has to be demolition & dismantling of railway infrastructure. The absolute haste in removing any indication that there ever was a railway, back in the 60s & 70s is heartbreaking. It almost comes across as rather spiteful. An example would be the Southport to Preston railway, closed...

Manchester Victoria anyone? Part buried under the AO Arena & the other given over mostly to trams & covered with a dirty plastic roof. Thoroughly depressing place & the usual friendly Northern staff doing nothing to help brighten it up….

Glasgow Queen Street & Liverpool Central (ex CLC)

I nominate the closed stations of Royton Junction, Park (both Gtr Mcr), Loch Skerrow on the old Port Road & Blaenrhondda.

I’m throwing in Barry Island. I wouldn’t like to find myself alone there on a cold winters evening. The station frontage is nice enough, but with only 1 platform now accessible, the whole station looks dreadful & in its death throes. The area outside the station doesn’t look too inviting either!

Thanks so much for posting then link :)

Yes, I noticed that too!

I think the LOR trains originally terminated at what would have been a platform opposite what is now platform 2 (for Southport) until it was destroyed by fire. It then terminated from P2 until closure of the LOR.

Would Chinley’s only remaining island be in with a shout for a very wide platform?

Reading Green Park?

Not sure if anyone’s mentioned Scarborough. Apparently it has the longest platform bench in the world @ 456 feet.

My noms Liverpool Central Low Level. Just awful. Blackpool South. A true fall from grace. Barton upon Humber. Who goes there exactly?

I’ll nominate Grindleford on the Hope Valley Line. The old waiting room at the top of ramp down to the Manchester platform, is a cafe. It sells half pints & pints of tea & coffee! Not to mention the biggest chip ‘cob’ I have ever seen in my entire life!! Great after a nice long walk in the...

Liverpool Central lost 6 mainline platforms, down to just the 2 remaining low level (pre Wirral Railway now Northern Line). Plus new ‘77 deep level platform (Wirral Line) So a net reduction of 5. Southport originally a 13 platform station (London Street excursion platform incl.) Now down to just 6.

Brilliant!!

Just to keep on topic Thought of another & another local(ish) one, Birkenhead Woodside. Demolished in October ‘68, despite being the only listed terminus in Merseyside. Sadly, the wind up of services to Paddington, Wales & the West Country 18 months earlier was the start of Birkenhead’s long...

Of course, sorry yes. I was thinking you were referring to Liverpool Central! My bad… 1710071931 Thanks for this detail Dr Hoo. Makes sense re, the simplification of the platforms, concourse, etc. I cant quite remember Broad Street though, but knew that it had been in terminal decline for a...

Don’t forget this thread is part of history & nostalgia, so childhood memories are included. So what was improved for ‘everyone’ by selling off the air rights of half the station & replacing it with the Broadgate development? 1710000586 I think you may be confusing that with Liverpool Echange...

Although the old Manchester Victoria wasn’t by any means the nicest station, losing 9 platforms to an arena & being relegated to regional status, was in my mind BR vandalism. Coupled with the demolition of nearby Exchange, so much capacity was lost back in the early 90’s. Capacity that the city...

The former was built in 1874, the latter rebuilt in its current form in 1878. The designer of Queen St being James Carswell. Both roofs & gable end screens appear to be almost identical. I’m certain Liverpool Central wasn’t designed by James Carswell, so who was the civil engineer & could've...