herra soul mob
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noticed had stalls on concourse last Saturday
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Sunderland railway station.
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How come it's taken weeks to sort out thoughThey had to shut the bogs again a couple weeks ago because somebody smeared shite all over the walls in the gents and the ladies. Cleaner showed me the photos
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Hank Scorpio
Striker
It’s a f***ing horrible station mind.
The fact (on Wednesday when I was travelling at least anyway) the city's Main station has nee bogs is ridiculous like.
Appreciate theres been 'incidents' - but I've never actually seen them open!
Being honest there’s not much they can do with the current footfall. The single biggest improvement would be more trains in/out of Sunderland. I don’t know the practicalities but would love a service to Durham and other stations, perhaps further afield. The current services in/out of Sunderland are quite frankly embarrassing.
Bob Fleming
Striker
It'll be the smack heads. Heard some f***ing awful stories from shop owners of what they have found in the morning when opening up. Human shit in their doorways and that.They had to shut the bogs again a couple weeks ago because somebody smeared shite all over the walls in the gents and the ladies. Cleaner showed me the photos
A good cull of them would do the town no end of favours.
Hank Scorpio
Striker
I was on the 15.30 GC service the other week and not only were the bogs shut but the amount of scumbags hanging around was the station was ridiculous. I genuinely felt sorry for the staff.
Not seen the escalator working and often the lift not operating. More than once I’ve helped people carry bags etc down the steps as it would have been almost impossible for people to get down onto platform.
Struts
Winger
A TP service from Newcastle to Manchester or Liverpool making a few stops along the coast line in Sunderland, Hartlepool & somewhere else round Teesside like Stockton or Eaglescliffe would be perfect.
Shandy drinker
Striker
The should be barred unless using the station to travel
That’s the sort of thing I’m thinking. I know you can get the GC to eaglescliffe, York and Hartlepool. But I’d imagine trains across to the north west would be popular, and to Brum etc. I can’t see how the station improves without more services. More of the NE travel budget should be spent increasing services to Sunderland.
Absolute common sense. Northumbria police should hang there head in shame at the attention/presence they have in the city centre.
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pompeymakem
Midfield
I've got the image of West Side Story in my head.
Daz965
Central Defender
They're open now. The regular cleaners refused to do it so they got somebody else in. The walls were plated with cack like, wish I hadn't looked at the pics, nearly brought my breakfast up. There's some contemptible scum out there.How come it's taken weeks to sort out though
Barista
Midfield
The reason why Cambridge station is so far outside the city centre is that when the railways were being built in mid 19th C the university did not want its students having easy access to all the fleshpots in Old London Town (only an hour into Kings Cross), so they insisted the station was built away from all the colleges which are in the centre of town. As the University owned most of central Cambridge (and still does) they could easily refuse any development on their land.
Between them the colleges of Cambridge and Oxford are some of the biggest landowners in England. It was said that you could travel between Cambridge and Oxford without ever having to leave land that wasn’t owned by either of them.
They weren't open 48 hrs ago like
Daz965
Central Defender
They were open this morning
Paddy O'Dors
Striker
British Transport Police's responsibility.
Barista
Midfield
Are there any plans for more of the GC services to/from Sunderland to stop at Peterborough rather than running straight through between York and London? There now seems to be one service a day that stops there, but means that on my return journey I have to go via LNER instead if I want to get off at Peterborough.
