Look at this carefully. Ignore the quality of the picture and this could have been taken 50 or 60 years ago. There are no anachronisms and none of that kitschy heritage mix and match of eras and sales outlets that sap all the atmosphere from a location.
This is EXACTLY how New S&D stations will look! As well as being easy on the eye they will be practical and built to last. Okay, when a (non heritage) train pulls into the station the illusion will be lost for a moment but this is a small price to pay. Whilst we'll hardly need to encourage passengers (expensive fuel and crumbling roads will do that) the fact that our stations will feel like real stations, will be staffed and have refreshment and other facilities, will make customers value the whole experience. There will be an excess of the feel good factor.
Thanks to Nick Howes for this. Sorry I couldn't print your comments re Ernest Marples. Whilst I share the sentiment this is, after all, a family blog site!
Fab picture! (Have I died and gone to Heaven?)
ReplyDeletePerfect for "period drama" filming & history re-enactment events; they deserve to make some money out of the effort & care invested.
ReplyDeletei work for this particular railway (the churnet valley railway) we are all very proud on our work at consall station and are looking forward to re-open other stations on our line (ipstones, leekbrook jcn, leek,endon and possibly oakamoor and alton towers
ReplyDeletei am very proud to say that i work on this particular railway (the churnet valley railway) soon hopefully we will be re-opening other stations on our line such as, leekbrook jcn, leek, endon, ipstones , oakamoor and alton towers
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