ASharpe
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Well... Darlo felt bleak to me last time I was there
I completely agree, It's a huge station and I've been the only one on the platform a few times.
Well... Darlo felt bleak to me last time I was there
Another plus 1 for Warrington Bank Quay. It’s dismal.
In terms of actual passenger numbers I agree it isn't that lonely but it's the size of it that makes it feel that way.I completely agree, It's a huge station and I've been the only one on the platform a few times.
Will have to pop in next time I find myself there!Always a warm welcome in Hogans over the Road from the station.
Interesting question,
I'm going to go with Worplesdon. Roughly 1tph stopping in each direction with another 3tph passing through in each direction. The station itself is in the middle of a forest. Despite being just 30 miles from London on a major commuter route, the station is in the middle of nowhere and I don't think anyone walks to the station at all as only a few large mansions are nearby. Yet with a large and cheap carpark and situated on a fast road between Guildford and Woking it is well used and well kept. In the early morning it is therefore bustling and even has a manned ticket office, but after about 11am it becomes eerily silent for most of the day, with virtually no passengers and packed trains stopping each hour just for passengers to observe its emptiness and wish to get on with their journey to London
Bletchley is pretty bleak. Grey, grey, grey, with an aggregate factory in the background providing the scenery.
Interesting question,
I'm going to go with Worplesdon. Roughly 1tph stopping in each direction with another 3tph passing through in each direction. The station itself is in the middle of a forest. Despite being just 30 miles from London on a major commuter route, the station is in the middle of nowhere and I don't think anyone walks to the station at all as only a few large mansions are nearby. Yet with a large and cheap carpark and situated on a fast road between Guildford and Woking it is well used and well kept. In the early morning it is therefore bustling and even has a manned ticket office, but after about 11am it becomes eerily silent for most of the day, with virtually no passengers and packed trains stopping each hour just for passengers to observe its emptiness and wish to get on with their journey to London
75 minutes and nobody’s mentioned Wakefield Kirkgate? Now with a record of a brass band playing ‘Jerusalem’ on a never ending loop!
What didn't the OP want?Dent and Garsdale on a wild day in winter are very bleak!
At the other extreme, some on low lying flatlands are as well. Broomfleet and others along the Humber estuary are examples.
What didn't the OP want?
At least with Penrith you can have a wander around town plus theirs McDonald's next door plus superstores & of course the Agricultural hotel for a pint when things are in normal times of course.
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Windy and often wet.
I completely agree, It's a huge station and I've been the only one on the platform a few times.
Rugby is the bleakest station I've got off of a train. The 4 car 350's seem so small, in the vastness of nothingness.Rugby was a bit grim one February evening back in 2012 (during the height of London Midland's traincrew woes), cold and absolutely nothing open.
Rugby is the bleakest station I've got off of a train. The 4 car 350's seem so small, in the vastness of nothingness.
Second must be Nuneaton.
Paul Simon would probably vote for Widnes. (see Wikipedia: Homeward Bound)
Doesn't that allegedly refer to a different Widnes station which was on the now disused (for passengers) line from Ditton Junction, and not the current Widnes station which was originally called Farnworth (Widnes)?
...or Warrington Bank Quay or even Runcorn.
Interesting question,
I'm going to go with Worplesdon. Roughly 1tph stopping in each direction with another 3tph passing through in each direction. The station itself is in the middle of a forest. Despite being just 30 miles from London on a major commuter route, the station is in the middle of nowhere and I don't think anyone walks to the station at all as only a few large mansions are nearby. Yet with a large and cheap carpark and situated on a fast road between Guildford and Woking it is well used and well kept. In the early morning it is therefore bustling and even has a manned ticket office, but after about 11am it becomes eerily silent for most of the day, with virtually no passengers and packed trains stopping each hour just for passengers to observe its emptiness and wish to get on with their journey to London