Categories: uncategorized
Tags: Railways/ Raliway Stations
Date: 22 December 2008 17:15:34
No matter how I try to fight I have to admit that I love railway station architecture. Now I realise this is a random thing to love, but I do. I love the differences among the similarities. Today I got excited on seeing some cast iron thistles on the top of some railings at a Station north of the border. I therefore always love to go to new stations as you never quiet know what to expect will it be like Euston all new with low ceilings and not much character, will it be like Victoria which I like to think of a station with twin personalities. This is due to it originally being two different stations for two different rail companies, one very grand and impressive with very high ceilings, the other being in my opinion more homily, but both still with fascinating architecture. I wonder how many people even notice that the cast iron roof struts are of different designs in both parts of the station. Outside of the big cities I also think that the railways station tells you how grand a town thought it should be (not how grand it was) when the station was built. Having said all this you can imagine I was excited at the idea of seeing a new station, because today on my rail journey I had to go to London bridge . I have to say I was mildly disappointed, Once on the platform you could see the beautiful but plain roof, (I’m guessing because it is one of the older stations,) it wasn’t grand like some of them, also seeing it in the dark didn’t help. It was also obvious that it had been two stations, the brick wall in the middle sort of gave it away. The entrance however was a disappointment, not a proper new or a proper old station just a mish mash of whatever they could find it felt like. Over all it didn't create a good impression! I would have put this link in the post but couldn't work out how to! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_station