Interesting that Reading appears to have been "designed" whereas Bromsgrove is like the out of box style first introduced, dare I suggest, by the LMS. I have used Cambridge North recently, another fortune spent on a very plain outcome where it isn't possible to even drop off legally close enough not to get soaked in a storm - as I did a few weeks ago, despite my driver breaking the local rules. Only taxis are permitted to get suitably close.
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Hello, Paul. My Bromsgrove photo did not show the new station to its advantage- mea culpa. The layout and facilities are very different to those you experienced at Cambridge North. There is easy vehicle access at Bromsgrove with a drop off area, adjacent and secure cycle storage, plentiful car parking on the former rail-served oil depot in the old goods yard. As importantly, the station is fully staffed- the old LMS site had become a run down empty wilderness. Good design is expensive- as the Big Four knew well and London Transport fully embraced with the new Art Deco stations of Holden's design.Interesting that Reading appears to have been "designed" whereas Bromsgrove is like the out of box style first introduced, dare I suggest, by the LMS. I have used Cambridge North recently, another fortune spent on a very plain outcome where it isn't possible to even drop off legally close enough not to get soaked in a storm - as I did a few weeks ago, despite my driver breaking the local rules. Only taxis are permitted to get suitably close.
Cambridge North does have plenty of parking, full time staff, lifts, even some refreshment facilities, good bus services, masses of cycle storage it is just the idea of actually allowing people arriving by private transport to get somewhere near enough out of the rain seems beyond modern thinking.Hello, Paul. My Bromsgrove photo did not show the new station to its advantage- mea culpa. The layout and facilities are very different to those you experienced at Cambridge North. There is easy vehicle access at Bromsgrove with a drop off area, adjacent and secure cycle storage, plentiful car parking on the former rail-served oil depot in the old goods yard. As importantly, the station is fully staffed- the old LMS site had become a run down empty wilderness. Good design is expensive- as the Big Four knew well and London Transport fully embraced with the new Art Deco stations of Holden's design.
I just preferred it when it was Chesterton Junction PAD, somewhere that was reasonably welcoming to those of us wanting to record the elderly wagons still to be found there.
Paul