GatwickDepress
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Has anybody had any experience running or being involved in one of these?
Since my local station (Ore) is about as welcoming to passengers as an RPI at Mauldeth Road on Monday morning, and there's currently a lot of local activity on the voluntary organisation front, I was thinking there might be scope for community involvement lat Ore. Unfortunately, I can't really think of much that a voluntary organisation could do there, short of being litter collectors and local art/history showcase installers. Oh, and path maintainers. The weeds and dog mess around there are absolutely awful...
Ever since the booking office was burnt down in the late 1980s, Ore has been left to rot aesthetically. The palisade fencing installed on the Ashford platform was a necessary evil back when the remains of the carriage shed haunted the area, but short of secretly ripping it down and replacing it with something more pleasing, not much anybody can do.
It does mean hanging flowerboxes off it would be seen as some sort of post-modernist ironic art piece rather than something to prettify the place!
To keep it open to talk about station partnerships in general, I was really impressed by the flowerbox displays at a couple of the stations on the Marston Vale line the other day. Their website is pretty nice as well.
Since my local station (Ore) is about as welcoming to passengers as an RPI at Mauldeth Road on Monday morning, and there's currently a lot of local activity on the voluntary organisation front, I was thinking there might be scope for community involvement lat Ore. Unfortunately, I can't really think of much that a voluntary organisation could do there, short of being litter collectors and local art/history showcase installers. Oh, and path maintainers. The weeds and dog mess around there are absolutely awful...
Ever since the booking office was burnt down in the late 1980s, Ore has been left to rot aesthetically. The palisade fencing installed on the Ashford platform was a necessary evil back when the remains of the carriage shed haunted the area, but short of secretly ripping it down and replacing it with something more pleasing, not much anybody can do.
It does mean hanging flowerboxes off it would be seen as some sort of post-modernist ironic art piece rather than something to prettify the place!
To keep it open to talk about station partnerships in general, I was really impressed by the flowerbox displays at a couple of the stations on the Marston Vale line the other day. Their website is pretty nice as well.
