Tag Archives: railway station

Sep 21 2023
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Transport

The 7:12 arrives, on time (nearly)

Thursday 21st September 2023, 7.15am (day 4,410)

7:12 train, 21/9/23

Regular early morning shots seem to have mostly disappeared from the blog; this is the earliest, and the first before 8am, since 20th January, and that was taken when coming into Addis Ababa airport so not exactly normal circumstances. Other than that this is the earliest since 7th October 2022. In all that time Northern Rail might have run a whole morning’s service which didn’t contain at least one train that turned up just that few minutes late…. but I doubt it.

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Sep 05 2023
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Daily Post, Transport

Exhortation

Monday 4th September 2023, 9.55am (day 4,393)

Have a blessed day, 4/9/23

As made by this board outside Walthamstow Central station this morning. And thanks to ‘good service’ on the tube, Grand Central trains and….. er, OK, Northern (just about) — it was blessed enough. Blessed with very fine weather, at least.

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Aug 13 2023
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Leaving Holyhead station

Saturday 12th August 2023, 11.20am (day 4,370)

Leaving Holyhead station, 12/8/23

Holyhead railway station is one of those that is definitively The End Of The Line. A terminus, a cul-de-sac, all change please. You get off into a tangle of docks and railway lines and have to depend on this bridge to take you over all this and into the town. I like this shot as (unlike yesterday) it was one of those that has turned out exactly as I hoped when I pressed the shutter.

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Jul 31 2023
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Daily Post, Transport

King’s Cross, as usual

Monday 31st July 2023, 9.55am (day 4,358)

King's Cross, 31/7/23

Almost every one of my trips to London ends here. Now and again I might leave in a different direction, but mostly it’s on one of the half-hourly Leeds services: we all watch the departures board over there, to see if this will be one of those times where LNER give us all more than about eight minutes’ notice. (Today, they did.)

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Jul 28 2023
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Daily Post, Interior

Back to work (Victoria station)

Thursday 27th July 2023, 8.55am (day 4,354)

Victoria stairway

Back at work in Manchester for the first time since the 3rd. This is usually my first proper sight of the city on any given morning.

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Jun 19 2023
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Daily Post, Urban scene

A Bradford welcome

Sunday 18th June 2023, 9.30am (day 4,315)

Welcome Home Sexy, 18/6/23

Apparently a while back someone graffitied ‘Welcome Home Sexy’ on the approaches to Bradford Interchange railway station, to cheer up their partner, spouse, mate, or whatever. This has now become A Thing. A stylised version of the original message is still there beside the tracks, but not content with that, we get it by the station entrance too, next to the heroically decrepit retail establishment. But hey, why not, at least it isn’t another “Buy Corporate!” advertisement.

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May 25 2023
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Daily Post, Transport

Not the night service

Thursday 25th May 2023, 3.20pm (day 4,291)

Dark Victoria, 25/5/23

Don’t read the time from the light here. Victoria station is much improved from twenty years ago, when I first started using it, but platforms 3-6 are still mere warrens, skulking under the overhead bulk of the Arena. Dark holes in which one can wait a while to find out if they’re running your service today.

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Apr 27 2023
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Dynamic slug

Wednesday 26th April 2023, 8.05am (day 4,262)

Dynamic slug

Pictured on the wall behind platform 1 at Hebden Bridge railway station. This is the fourth slug to appear on the blog, and while one doesn’t normally associate the slug, as a species, with the idea of dynamism, I think this one does give it a shot. It’s not quite the crab on that Prodigy album cover, but it’s getting there.

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Apr 24 2023
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger

Giraffe café, King’s Cross

Monday 24th April 2023, 11.55am (day 4,260)

Giraffe cafe, 24/4/23

And so, the trip back from London, and that invariably means King’s Cross is the departure point. I quite like the Giraffe café, on the balcony above the concourse — it’s a fairly agreeable railway station all round, in fact. Maybe the guy eating the sandwich might feel his depiction is a little unflattering but at least it catches the lunchtime moment.

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Apr 11 2023
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger

Stalybridge station buffet

Monday 10th April 2023, 12.25pm (day 4,246)

Stalybridge station buffet, 10/4/23

I know I’ve mentioned this before but the station buffet and bar at Stalybridge really is one of the best there is: it’s worth breaking a journey there just to visit it. And here’s the bloke in charge. Clare was mildly peeved there was no lunch to be had today but other than that it kept up its reputation.

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