andymac Posted February 5, 2016 Author Share Posted February 5, 2016 And at the other end of the scale....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larky Masher Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Although the train sheds had been removed by the time this photo was taken. I was there last year and it didn't look much like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Endell Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 I was there last year and it didn't look much like that. Thanks to the architectural vandals at GCC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Endell Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 And at the other end of the scale....... Keys - where is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andymac Posted February 5, 2016 Author Share Posted February 5, 2016 It was Manchester Victoria ..... being refurbished Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Endell Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 (edited) It was Manchester Victoria ..... being refurbished I've actually been there, but it was thirty years ago (since then I've always travelled to Manchester on the line that passes through Piccadillly - the exceptions being a couple of occasions when I've alighted at Salford Central and then walked across the Irwell), so I've only the vaguest recollection of the place. I'm sure it was awarded worst station award a short time back - which is probably why you posted a picture of it! Edited February 5, 2016 by Charlie Endell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Although the train sheds had been removed by the time this photo was taken. Didn't realise there was such a gradient up to the station entrance. I guess the steps up to the St. Enoch Centre were built into it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Endell Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 (edited) Didn't realise there was such a gradient up to the station entrance. I guess the steps up to the St. Enoch Centre were built into it?I don't think so - the site was completely flattened and the car park that was behind Lewis's ran right up to St. Enoch Square (the rubble from the hotel and station was used to infill Queen's Dock - SECC now stands on the site). They demolished the hotel because GCC said the site was needed for offices for the MoD, which would bring jobs to Glasgow - unsurprisingly those jobs never materialised and the site was a car park until they started work on the St Enoch Centre. Edited February 5, 2016 by Charlie Endell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Righto, think I mind my dad parking there on trips into the city. Architectural vandals is the right phrase, what a beautiful building it was... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Endell Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Even if they'd saved the facade of the hotel it would have been something - they could have built the shopping centre behind it. One of my earliest memories (I reckon 1973 / 74) was being taken into town by my grandfather and parking in the station (I can just recall the roof of the train shed above). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andymac Posted February 5, 2016 Author Share Posted February 5, 2016 (edited) Even if they'd saved the facade of the hotel it would have been something - they could have built the shopping centre behind it. One of my earliest memories (I reckon 1953 / 54) was being taken into town by my grandfather and parking in the station (I can just recall the roof of the train shed above). I fixed your typo....... Edited February 5, 2016 by andymac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andymac Posted February 5, 2016 Author Share Posted February 5, 2016 Never complain about your commute again..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Endell Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 I fixed you typo.......If only! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaid Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 There is a fantastic old dining room in Basel SBB Bahnhof. The "German" railway station in Basel, Basel Badischer Bahnhof is really interesting although not particularly that impressive a building. It's a Deutsche Bahn run station and while the booking office is in Switzerland the platforms are technically in Germany. There is an underpass from the booking hall to the platforms and as Switzerland is in Schengen, there is no passport control but there is a customs post. When I was there I was waling down at the same time as a few other people, two of who "looked a bit foreign". No prizes for guessing who got pulled by customs - hint, it wasn't me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Endell Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 ^^^ Superb - wouldn't mind visiting that myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Endell Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Didn't realise there was such a gradient up to the station entrance. I guess the steps up to the St. Enoch Centre were built into it?North Drive (now lost) - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaid Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Righto, think I mind my dad parking there on trips into the city. Architectural vandals is the right phrase, what a beautiful building it was... That's exactly my memory of St Enoch's station, my dad parking there on trips up to the city. Off on a tangent, has anyone looked into the proposals for Glasgow Crossrail. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossrail_Glasgow To "enable" this you are only talking about around 500m of track roughly from the Brazen Head to a point just west of the junction of Cathcart Road and Aitkenhead Roads, which is entirely light industrial or waste ground. This is the old southern line into St. Enoch's and would open up both cross Glasgow traffic - roughly NE to SW without having to go through either Central or Queen St. Speaking purely parochially, if you put a new station in at the bottom of Cathcart Road, you could bring trains from anywhere in Scotland directly to within 1km of Hampden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Endell Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Couple of good Freds on urbanglasgow about Crossrail - http://urbanglasgow.co.uk/about451.html http://urbanglasgow.co.uk/ftopic491-0-asc-0.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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