Popular Post montyburns56 Posted May 4, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted May 4, 2020 I came across this picture of New Holland Pier station from a few days before it was closed and it is one one of the most filthiest, neglected looking stations that I have ever seen. So I just thought that we could have a photo competition to post pictures of the most filthiest, derelict looking stations that were still in use at the time that the photo was taken. I'll throw down the gauntlet.... New Holland Pier 1981. 1980 35 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
flapland Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 Wakefield Kirkgate has to be one of the worst but also most fascinating. No photos sadly. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welchester Posted May 4, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 4, 2020 I don't have a photo, but I should have thought Birmingham Snow Hill in the 1970s would be a contender. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted May 4, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 4, 2020 I think it is hard to beat East Brixton, closed circa 1977 due to its dilapidated condition. Always a surprise that nobody had fallen through the platform 30' to the roadway below. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post DaveF Posted May 4, 2020 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted May 4, 2020 Ardwick, just outside Manchester Piccadilly on the Great Central was quite grotty around 1971/2. Ardwick Class 08 trip working Jan 72 C0790.jpg Ardwick dmu to Manchester Piccadilly Jan 72 C0791.jpg Ardwick Class 104 New Mills to Manchaster Piccadilly Januqry 1972 C0783.jpg David 25 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted May 4, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 4, 2020 8 minutes ago, DaveF said: Ardwick, just outside Manchester Piccadilly on the Great Central was quite grotty around 1971/2. Ardwick Class 08 trip working Jan 72 C0790.jpg Ardwick dmu to Manchester Piccadilly Jan 72 C0791.jpg Ardwick Class 104 New Mills to Manchaster Piccadilly Januqry 1972 C0783.jpg David But it had Woodhead electrics, so, perfect in every way!! Mike. 6 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 14 hours ago, 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. Beat me to it!! But I should think that Bordesley Station just down the line past Moor Street would fit the bill for a present day 'almost derelict but still in use (just!!)' Location!! http://www.railaroundbirmingham.co.uk/Stations/bordesley.php 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34101 Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 (edited) St Leonards West Marina just before closure was pretty grim. We lived in one of the white railway houses overlooking the station. Great for train spotting although wild in a south-westerly gale. Sorry no pictures but several online. edit 13/5/20 Found the photo Dad took in 1958 just before we moved here from Eastleigh. The station was in a poor state. The huge building in the background was Pickfords warehouse, originally was to have been the station hotel when West Marina was the LBSC terminus, but was never used as a hotel. I remeber cirus trains arriving here and the whole lot, elephants and all, marching off the the circus ground and Glyne Gap The timber yard burned down a few years later. The area looks nothing like this now. Photo: My copyright. Edited May 13, 2020 by 34101 imagw added 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kris Posted May 5, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 5, 2020 Saltash, until a few months ago was right up there for decrepit. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 Someone mentioned Snow Hill..... 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 (edited) Bedford St John’s old station, which gradually withered away until just a small tin shack was left standing amid acres of dereliction. Full set of time-lapse photographs on ‘disused stations’ http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/b/bedford_st_johns/index34.shtml Edited May 5, 2020 by Nearholmer 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 Dorchester (GW) I think won an award once for most decrepit station. Mentioned in the Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorchester_West_railway_station 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 2 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: Bedford St John’s old station, which gradually withered away until just a small tin shack was left standing amid acres of dereliction. Full set of time-lapse photographs on ‘disused stations’ http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/b/bedford_st_johns/index34.shtml I was about to post a picture of Bedford St Johns, but realised I'd already posted that picture on this forum before, and then I remembered Dorchester! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 Until fairly recently I would have suggested Spalding, most rooms empty with notices saying the floors were unsafe and such like. The 'staff' toilet was one cubicle left over from the old Gents which, I suspect, had the old urinals still in place behind the boards covering them up. It's had a major refurbishment including the provision of a lift to access platform 2. Unfortunately as I don't now work afternoons I don't get the time to have a look around. Still very much a shadow of it's former self though. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Trainshed Terry Posted May 5, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 5, 2020 4 hours ago, Tim V said: Dorchester (GW) I think won an award once for most decrepit station. Mentioned in the Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorchester_West_railway_station I need a sad emjo. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold pirouets Posted May 5, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 5, 2020 22 hours ago, DaveF said: Ardwick, just outside Manchester Piccadilly on the Great Central was quite grotty around 1971/2. Always thought Ardwick looked pretty knackered when I used to go up to Manchester for work, and that was only a few years back. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 Some years ago, not long after I passed out as a guard I was on a Sunday Nottingham-Liverpool service. We ran into Manchester via Romiley rather than our normal route through Stockport. Most unusually we were booked to stop at Ardwick for some reason. Neither I nor the driver could figure out why but if the job card says you're stopping you stop. Opened the doors to the bare platform mostly covered in what seemed to be well kept grass. Felt like we'd stopped on somebody's front lawn! 3 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted May 5, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 5, 2020 The overall situation means it probably isn't close to the top - it'll never have the surrounding man-made desolation - but Ribblehead in the 90s, with the roof falling in, really did look lost and abandoned. And I imagine if you had to wait for a train there on a cold, dark, wintry night it would've been hard to imagine anything much more folorn. All in rather better nick nowadays thankfully. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killybegs Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 Wootton Bassett 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted May 5, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 5, 2020 Not totally decrepit, but not exactly how you would expect the gateway to The Lakes... 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 (edited) 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 Edited May 5, 2020 by APOLLO additional info added 16 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down_Under Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 How about liverpool exchange in its final years or months 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium iands Posted May 6, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 6, 2020 I don't have any pictures to post, but Broad Street (London) would be in the top 10 - probably. 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted May 6, 2020 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. It's been improved a bit in the last few years. Photos later if I can find them 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted May 6, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 6, 2020 (edited) The original Great Victoria Street station in Belfast in 1976. Itself the direct target of the bombers plus collateral damage from the Europa Hotel next door made it a sorry sight compared to its original grand architecture. https://images.app.goo.gl/NtjKXmbkemTkR7bi7 https://images.app.goo.gl/8hZ2o68H2vp1XXVc9 https://images.app.goo.gl/N6gpkLbnqS9hRvXLA Edited May 6, 2020 by Colin_McLeod Additional pictures Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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