What is your favourite train station?

**stek** · 2 May 2014, 07:49

Buckingham Great Central

**barrydidit** · 2 May 2014, 07:59

I like sitting in the station bar at St Pancras now it's been renovated.

Worst has to be Crewe. Cold. Miserable. Boring.

**Scrag Meister** · 2 May 2014, 08:00

St Pancras is definitely beautiful, saw a program a couple of months ago that said that is was nearly torn down.

That would have been a great loss if it had been.

Grand Central is definitely one to behold though.

**doodab** · 2 May 2014, 08:01

Kyoto. Nice building, and a fantastic food court. You could eat 3 meals a day there for a month and not get bored. As long as you like Japanese food of course

The fact you can get the shinkansen is pretty cool as well.

The architecture of the old London termini is lovely but they are all full of the same old chains of shops and have lost a lot of their charm. They aren't actually particularly nice places to be.

**Mich the Tester** · 2 May 2014, 08:02

Antwerp is quite impressive;

**Mich the Tester** · 2 May 2014, 08:07

I also rather like Sao Bento station in Porto;

**gingerjedi** · 2 May 2014, 08:09

Temple Meads or the cetral one in Rome but only because it means I've arrived in Rome.

**Mich the Tester** · 2 May 2014, 08:14

Originally posted by doodab View Post

The architecture of the old London termini is lovely but they are all full of the same old chains of shops and have lost a lot of their charm. They aren't actually particularly nice places to be.

The architecture of many European towns and cities is wonderful but so many are filled with the same old chains of shops that you really have to search to find something different. A couple of places here in Holland have some interesting independent 'boutiques' where Lady Tester likes to shop, like Deventer or Den Bosch or the 'Nine Streets' in Amsterdam but otherwise it's all the same old chains selling the same old branded stuff like shirts sewn together by 6 year olds in Cambodia with vacuous bulltulip like 'Genuine Authentic Original Sailing Club' plastered all over them.

A few town councils are enterprising enough to carry on allowing street musicians to play, markets with low stand rents, and a few, like Deventer have managed to keep some backstreets out of the hands of huge 'investment funds' that rent premises to huge chains and demand such high deposits and rent that new businesses can't hope to use them.

**scooterscot** · 2 May 2014, 08:19

Many a memory travelling through a snow covered Crianlarich on a Sunday back down to the big smoke (Glasgow) during my uni years after spending every other weekend at home. The longest three hours ever.

I've always enjoyed arriving into Venice by train. Everybody should do so at least once.

What is your favourite train station?