Britian's best rail station- ya know where its busy and all?

Goingnorth · Post by **Goingnorth** » Tue Aug 13, 2002 12:57 pm

Okay, never mind where you live. For the best day out for all things rail where would you go?

TylerDurden · Post by **TylerDurden** » Tue Aug 13, 2002 1:47 pm

The NRM York, I havnt been for years but Ive read alot about it recently and I'll be going again this summer (whats left of it). I want to see the prototype deltic in all its glory

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saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Tue Aug 13, 2002 2:44 pm

You haven't listed Didcot!

Goingnorth · Post by **Goingnorth** » Tue Aug 13, 2002 2:53 pm

saddletank wrote:You haven't listed Didcot!

I really wanted to list loads more put there is a limit to the poll system!

Didcot is okay...but I don't think it's up there with the big boys..

I also wanted to put in Exeter, Glasgow, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Eastleigh, Waterloo, London Bridge, Colchester, Liverpool street, Peterborough, Leicester, Sheffield, Stafford, Oxford, Scunthorpe, Teeside, Plymouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Newport, Gloucester, Warrington, Liverpool Lime street....but...

johndibben · Post by **johndibben** » Tue Aug 13, 2002 5:43 pm

Par in Cornwall

timbooth · Post by **timbooth** » Tue Aug 13, 2002 5:44 pm

Reading? What the hell is at Reading? Unless you mean the 'exciting' Thames Turbo (Class 165/166) depot. Reading is a mere shadow of its former self.

I agree, Didcot should be on the list, its the main GWR centre.

basildd · Post by **basildd** » Tue Aug 13, 2002 5:47 pm

Rob, you must have been as bored today as I was on night over the weekend....

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Tue Aug 13, 2002 6:04 pm

Aha, the penny drops - we are talking 2 diff things, Rob!

These aren't what I'd call rail centres - these are STATIONS. It is what is at the location to make it REALLY special that counts. Now if I were at Didcot I would turn my back on the Railtrack and HST stuff at go and spend the day at the GWR Didcot museum. That is what I thought you meant by 'rail centre'. For me, preserved lines aside, there is only really Didcot, NRM York and Carnforth.

Goingnorth · Post by **Goingnorth** » Tue Aug 13, 2002 6:05 pm

timbooth wrote:Reading? What the hell is at Reading? Unless you mean the 'exciting' Thames Turbo (Class 165/166) depot. Reading is a mere shadow of its former self.

I agree, Didcot should be on the list, its the main GWR centre.

A flippin lot of trains that's what!!!

Goingnorth · Post by **Goingnorth** » Tue Aug 13, 2002 6:06 pm

basildd wrote:Rob, you must have been as bored today as I was on night over the weekend....

Yep, it's a dead loss with some of 'em!

Goingnorth · Post by **Goingnorth** » Tue Aug 13, 2002 6:11 pm

saddletank wrote:Aha, the penny drops - we are talking 2 diff things, Rob!

These aren't what I'd call rail centres - these are STATIONS. It is what is at the location to make it REALLY special that counts. Now if I were at Didcot I would turn my back on the Railtrack and HST stuff at go and spend the day at the GWR Didcot museum. That is what I thought you meant by 'rail centre'. For me, preserved lines aside, there is only really Didcot, NRM York and Carnforth.

Nah! I just mean where there is a lot of trains and things going on...Really a spotters question more than anything....*ahem* cough *splutter* Not that I'm a spotter or have every been.

Basil is right, I am bored.

Goingnorth · Post by **Goingnorth** » Tue Aug 13, 2002 6:13 pm

johndibben wrote:Par in Cornwall

Arrrhhh! Remember the china clay hoods???

basildd · Post by **basildd** » Tue Aug 13, 2002 6:19 pm

goingnorth wrote:
johndibben wrote:Par in Cornwall
Arrrhhh! Remember the china clay hoods???

Yep, those damned criminals got away with tons of the stuff....

TylerDurden · Post by **TylerDurden** » Tue Aug 13, 2002 6:31 pm

So if were talknig about stations then Leeds is a fantastic for DMU lovers.

My Girlfriend has been in Leeds Hospital for the past 3 week, so Ive been going to see her every odd day. As a result Ive had to spend alot of time in Leeds station (which isnt a bad thing at all, lol). There are quite a few Class 91's, a few HST's and more common than ever before, the Eurostar, and GNER Eurostar. Then there's every type of DMU imaginable, which is great if your making one

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Since theyve done it up its great, clean and efficient, dam big too.

Thats looking over the main bit, but there are a fair few platforms that you cant see.

And this is looking out over the out door platforms, plenty there too

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blackfour · Post by **blackfour** » Tue Aug 13, 2002 6:36 pm

Has to be Crewe! What with 'The Railway age' being there and all...and of course that's where the 'Super D' is being overhauled, and the GWR gas turbine is kept...rumour has it that the Duchess of Hamilton will go there for Re-streamlining...possibly even as Coronation herself!
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