I dunno, the local area looks beyond rough.
I've taken an evening train from there last December in the snow. However it didn't feel bleak to me, mainly due to the warmth (and cider) from the decent pub at the bottom of the lane. Certainly cold though! It's in beautiful surroundings which takes away some of the bleakness to me.
Dunno about that, it's a charming little station these days with some lovely olde-worlde features still in place. It was bleak in the 90s though, it felt like it was going to close any day.
Agree, so run down it's sad. Sorely needs completely rebuilding.
Seems OK these days. Better than most of the town, anyway.
Yeah, grim. Really should be rebuilt as part of the Eden work.
Some of them. Chester is fairly charming, Southport has a nice trainshed even if the attached shopping arcade is a 1960s dump, Ormskirk has a nice bit of Victorian charm and a traditional (small) canopy, Headbolt is decent as a new-build with a good quality building. Bidston is a bit bleak, I'll give you. Ellesmere Port is an OK station but the town on the other hand...
. Hunts X is just a typical Merseyrail suburban, very similar to Fazakerley.
To throw another faded seaside one in, Cleethorpes is definitely bleak. I guess seaside resorts generally seem to be like that as the stations are a shadow of their former selves but often haven't had a decent amount spent on them to make a smaller station look nicer, aside from I guess Southport and Blackpool North*.
Preston can be a bit bleak at night in the "absolutely ****** freezing" sense of the word. Similarly Wigan North Western (terminus of some Liverpool services), and of course Manchester Picc 13/14, though the latter isn't a terminus.
* I know there's the issue with the staff at times, but the station itself is OK enough, I've certainly seen worse.
Also, it's something of a moot point, because I suspect the number of non-enthusiasts (returning on the return working) who ride that service all the way to Ribblehead, is close to zero.
