peanuts Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 12 hours ago, APOLLO said: Middleton station (near Oldham) was a grotty station just before closure in the 60's. Not too far away Royton station wasn't much better. This didn't help either !! Early DMU's were better built than brick sh1thouses !!!!!!!!!!!!! Story here https://www.railcar.co.uk/topic/accidents/details/royton-1961 Brit15 think the former Royton junction later just the singular Royton was in a decrepit state towards the end being just a windowless grafitid bus shelter on a weed strewn platform amongst a forrest of trees in a semi derelict wasteland of post industrial Oldham 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 12 hours ago, APOLLO said: Middleton station (near Oldham) was a grotty station just before closure in the 60's. Not too far away Royton station wasn't much better. This didn't help either !! Early DMU's were better built than brick sh1thouses !!!!!!!!!!!!! Story here https://www.railcar.co.uk/topic/accidents/details/royton-1961 Brit15 I would not have been in the bath when that lot came through !!!1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 1 hour ago, lmsforever said: I would not have been in the bath when that lot came through !!!1 Or in bed !!!! This from the article above "The leading car was M51701. The elderly couple in bed in the house which 51701 demolished were carried out into the open air on top of the unit." also At No. 9 High Barn St, Mr Tom Pollitt was also in bed when the train demolished the home of his neighbour, Mrs Greenwood. "I was wondering whether to get up or have another 5 minutes in bed, then I heard the diesel hooter. It didn't stop and I was just wondering what was the reason for all the noise when there was a terrific bang and the whole house shook. I shot out of bed and our little boy, Tom, was crying and shouting that there was a flying saucer in the back yard" Brit15 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
flapland Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 18 hours ago, APOLLO said: Middleton station (near Oldham) was a grotty station just before closure in the 60's. Not too far away Royton station wasn't much better. This didn't help either !! Early DMU's were better built than brick sh1thouses !!!!!!!!!!!!! Story here https://www.railcar.co.uk/topic/accidents/details/royton-1961 Brit15 I was brought up half a mile from the site of Middleton Station and crossed the former line on a daily basis going to secondary school. Will have to show my dad the photo next time I see him. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
flapland Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 (edited) 19 hours ago, APOLLO said: Edited May 6, 2020 by flapland duplicate Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 6, 2020 Author Share Posted May 6, 2020 21 hours ago, Davexoc said: Not totally decrepit, but not exactly how you would expect the gateway to The Lakes... I visited Windermere on the train with my parents in the early 80s so I remember well how dingy it was back then. Windermere 1976 1977 1983 1972 with some loco hauled stock in the station! 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post montyburns56 Posted May 6, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 6, 2020 On 04/05/2020 at 19:41, flapland said: Wakefield Kirkgate has to be one of the worst but also most fascinating. No photos sadly. You weren't wrong.... This is off topic, but what a great picture 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post montyburns56 Posted May 6, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 6, 2020 On 04/05/2020 at 19:44, Bishop of Welchester said: I don't have a photo, but I should have thought Birmingham Snow Hill in the 1970s would be a contender. I think we might have a winner... 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted May 6, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 6, 2020 7 minutes ago, montyburns56 said: I think we might have a winner... Very scruffy, certainly. But not as derelict as some at that era. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ColinK Posted May 6, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 6, 2020 Bytom, Poland. It looks derelict but is actually a mainline station, perhaps similar in importance to Warrington. . The subway linking the platforms stank. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post eastwestdivide Posted May 6, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted May 6, 2020 (edited) More Wakefield Kirkgate, from about 1982 and from 2009, before the recent improvements: Edited May 6, 2020 by eastwestdivide extra photo 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 And Manchester Victoria always used to look pretty grotty, even when the sun was out. It wasn't helped by blue smokescreens, such as here in 1985: 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Liverpool Central was being demolished around the last train services 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 I was going to mention Central. I think I was on one of the last trains from Gateacre when the line closed. However I was only two at the time so can't recall much apart from blue trains. Jason Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkC Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 (edited) Liverpool Central (High Level) sprung to mind here too - I was 11 when it closed, and was taken on a trip to Gateacre & back by my Grandma, about a week before final closure. What a mess it was Mark Edited May 6, 2020 by MarkC Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Bute Road/Cardiff Bay is another one - been continuously in a derelict state for many years 9 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Piewalker Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 When I was young St Annes still had the old station on the opposite platform which was always somewhat eerie. Ansdell and Fairhaven always seemed to be an abandoned island platform with weeds and not much else. I think they've jollied it up since then though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zomboid Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 Broad Street (London) was similar to Liverpool Central in being demolished as the last trains ran. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 Broad street here in 1984. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Chris116 Posted May 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 7, 2020 At the time Broad Street was closed I was working in what was then called the Natwest Tower, now Tower 42. I decided I would go and have a look around before the station closed and arranged to have a long lunch break, trouble was I got the dates wrong and arrived a few days after it had closed instead of the planned three days before closure. I was very cross with myself at that! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted May 7, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 7, 2020 For a short while, there was a temporary Broad St station (until they built the chord at Hackney (Graham Rd?)). Just a scaffold pole platform as I recall accessed through a corridor of shuttering ply. A sense of dereliction even though it was new. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Chris116 Posted May 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 7, 2020 (edited) 10 hours ago, Joseph_Pestell said: For a short while, there was a temporary Broad St station (until they built the chord at Hackney (Graham Rd?)). Just a scaffold pole platform as I recall accessed through a corridor of shuttering ply. A sense of dereliction even though it was new. Yes, the Graham Road Curve brought the North London line services into Liverpool Street for a time. The scaffold platform appears in a number of photographs on www.disused-stations.org.uk which is always a good reference point for closed stations. Edited May 7, 2020 by Chris116 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted May 7, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 7, 2020 1 minute ago, Chris116 said: Yes, the Graham Road Curve brought the North London line services into Liverpool Street for a time. The scaffold platform appears in a number of photographs on disused-stations.org.uk which is always a good reference point for closed stations. Having griced the temporary Broad St station, I did manage to travel over the Graham Rd link a couple of times. But if there was a shortage of 313s, it was always the first service to be cancelled. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted May 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 7, 2020 17 hours ago, eastwestdivide said: And Manchester Victoria always used to look pretty grotty, even when the sun was out. It wasn't helped by blue smokescreens, such as here in 1985: It suffered badly from having the arena built over it. At least some interesting features around the booking hall were kept, and the last time I was there that edge (where the trams go) looked fairly smart. The main platforms were still a dump though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 (edited) Derby's old concrete canopies (now replaced) always seemed fairly dull and decrepit, especially when the sun wasn't out. Here at various times in the 80s: Edited May 7, 2020 by eastwestdivide clarity 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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