Too true, that photo you put on here of it weeks before it was torn to the ground shows this.
This goes to show what a little TLC can do to stations. I hate to bring up this again, but if people were to put this much effort into Wakefield Kirkgate etc, more people would be attracted to railways.
It is a nice station (Middlesbrough), and another success story is Thornaby, just a stones throw away from there, kind of a Stockton that turned out alright.
Well the gist of the award for Middlesbrough is it's well kept architecture. Although Thornaby has experienced something of a passenger revival in recent years that is largely due to the fact that Stockton itself has virtually no train service worth speaking of.I don't think it's architecture would win any prizes!
And of course anybody from Stockton or Middlesbrough wishing to travel to London has 3 choices; NR to Darlington for EC, NR to Eaglescliffe for GCT or TPE to York for EC.
Imagine a situation where Stockton hadn't been wrecked. You had GCT and NR services stopping there and maybe the former service between Hartlepool and Darlington was still running...THAT would be impressive.
Somebody asked which other stations had been ruined - Northallerton and Thirsk spring to mind and of course Saltburn and Redcar. Their "remains" are tidily kept but that's all they are as anyone who has frozen on the platform at Northallerton in winter will know.
P.S I am sure BR thought about demolishing the roof of Darlington once, can anyone confirm this?
