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Sunderland railway station.


Sgt Pepper said:
I’ve been awake ages so out of sheer boredom I had a search around for new railway stations after reading this thread again and come across this. If somewhere like Coventry can end up with something like this, surely we can?

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Looks like it’s based on a much more traditional design that actually looks like a station.
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Looks great....and massive. Obviously something like that on a smaller scale. I am wondering if they are planning to dig down and open up the platform to the outside on that Sunderland station photo? Looks like there is a gap/split down the middle of the station.
 
Sgt Pepper said:
I’ve been awake ages so out of sheer boredom I had a search around for new railway stations after reading this thread again and come across this. If somewhere like Coventry can end up with something like this, surely we can?

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Looks like it’s based on a much more traditional design that actually looks like a station.
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That is a picture of Curzon Street station, the Birmingham end of HS2, which is costing billions
We ain’t getting anything remotely like that in Sunderland unfortunately.
 
Ava Ava Ava said:
That is a picture of Curzon Street station, the Birmingham end of HS2, which is costing billions
We ain’t getting anything remotely like that in Sunderland unfortunately.
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Not even on a smaller scale? Opening it up and a more traditional design would be miles better than anything else.
 
Sgt Pepper said:
Not even on a smaller scale? Opening it up and a more traditional design would be miles better than anything else.
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The North East never gets anything, go compare the new stations which have opened in Birmingham with full canopies and all sorts and the Northumberland Line which has a bus shelter, just to see the difference.
 
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tenpins said:
As much as I’d like to see these units filled it’s a location that is targeted by feral kids and smackheads during the day. That’s why a lot of businesses close by have added security locks etc. Until something is done about them nothing will change.
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Sunderland’s not that bad man. The Greggs on Northumberland St have their staff behind glass now, and you regularly see scrotes just walking off with whatever they like from there.

Monument metro has better facilities than Sunderland’s main station. That can’t be right.
 
Doberman said:
I was waiting outside the station for about 20 minutes the other afternoon and couldn't believe the number of utter scruffs that had set up residence directly outside. I'm all for supporting people who have fallen on hard times but these knackers were like flies around shit. Must have been 20 of them and they all knew each other. The police turned up twice, they knew the main culprits by name and moved them on very politely. They all shook hands, dispersed amicably then were back within minutes of the police leaving the area. Shouting and bawling at each other from across the street, pissed on stella and generally making the area directly outside the station really unpleasant. This was lunchtime on Tuesday.

I honestly don't know what the answer is but it really give off an awful impression of our city to any visitors. I have also just read that from 6pm, security lock most of the doors and lock the toilets so visitors have to ask their permission to use the disabled toilets because that end of the town is crawling with knackers that can't behave. Appalling.
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Until we understand the root cause and then provide alternative pathways these ‘knackers’ will continue to be a problem.

If I lived in a squalid bedsit, had substance abuse issues, a sh*tty existence and didn’t have a pot to p*ss in, I’d probably end up loitering around big sheltered spaces trying to think of ways to make a quick few quid to get something to eat or allow me to forget how much of a scum bag I am for a few hours.

I get it… on the face of it, there’s some awful people in the world, but they don’t all start out like that. They become products of their environment and lived experiences.

Pushing them out of view of people coming into the city is just sweeping the issue under the carpet and moving the problem elsewhere. If we really want to fix it, it needs time, a sh*t tonne of money and a complete rethink of the political discourse we currently have in this country.

Or… we just round them up in a paddy wagon every day and drop them at the edge of town and hope they get sick of finding their way back.
 
Cool as Fridges said:
Until we understand the root cause and then provide alternative pathways these ‘knackers’ will continue to be a problem.

If I lived in a squalid bedsit, had substance abuse issues, a sh*tty existence and didn’t have a pot to p*ss in, I’d probably end up loitering around big sheltered spaces trying to think of ways to make a quick few quid to get something to eat or allow me to forget how much of a scum bag I am for a few hours.

I get it… on the face of it, there’s some awful people in the world, but they don’t all start out like that. They become products of their environment and lived experiences.

Pushing them out of view of people coming into the city is just sweeping the issue under the carpet and moving the problem elsewhere. If we really want to fix it, it needs time, a sh*t tonne of money and a complete rethink of the political discourse we currently have in this country.

Or… we just round them up in a paddy wagon every day and drop them at the edge of town and hope they get sick of finding their way back.
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I personally blame education. We need to gear education towards a trade or a career and base everything around skills and knowledge required rather than learning about the features of rivers, volcanoes and moutains or spending 10 weeks learning about the Romans.

I say this as someone who has worked in education/classrooms for 12 years now.
 
Cool as Fridges said:
Until we understand the root cause and then provide alternative pathways these ‘knackers’ will continue to be a problem.

If I lived in a squalid bedsit, had substance abuse issues, a sh*tty existence and didn’t have a pot to p*ss in, I’d probably end up loitering around big sheltered spaces trying to think of ways to make a quick few quid to get something to eat or allow me to forget how much of a scum bag I am for a few hours.

I get it… on the face of it, there’s some awful people in the world, but they don’t all start out like that. They become products of their environment and lived experiences.

Pushing them out of view of people coming into the city is just sweeping the issue under the carpet and moving the problem elsewhere. If we really want to fix it, it needs time, a sh*t tonne of money and a complete rethink of the political discourse we currently have in this country.

Or… we just round them up in a paddy wagon every day and drop them at the edge of town and hope they get sick of finding their way back.
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My solution is simple (and effective), maybe not moral.....sterilise the lot of them - stop them breeding more scum into the world.
Thats the issue now its generational

Always find it funny when Stockton hold events in the town centre, and tbf they do put some good stuff on - 'the' smackheads always seem to disappear, its like there all rounded up and penned into a compound for the day.
Then as soon as the event finishes, boom, they re-appear :lol:
 
Doberman said:
I personally blame education. We need to gear education towards a trade or a career and base everything around skills and knowledge required rather than learning about the features of rivers, volcanoes and moutains or spending 10 weeks learning about the Romans.

I say this as someone who has worked in education/classrooms for 12 years now.
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Would be a huge part of the plan. Tailor education to find the best in people rather than mark them against arbitrary standards that don’t fit in with their natural abilities. There must be so many kids become completely disenfranchised because they’re set up to fail.
kyle's left foot said:
My solution is simple (and effective), maybe not moral.....sterilise the lot of them - stop them breeding more scum into the world.
Thats the issue now its generational

Always find it funny when Stockton hold events in the town centre, and tbf they do put some good stuff on - 'the' smackheads always seem to disappear, its like there all rounded up and penned into a compound for the day.
Then as soon as the event finishes, boom, they re-appear :lol:
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I agree with you that we need to break cycles… I think that’s what you’re saying! 🤣
 
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Doberman said:
I personally blame education. We need to gear education towards a trade or a career and base everything around skills and knowledge required rather than learning about the features of rivers, volcanoes and moutains or spending 10 weeks learning about the Romans.

I say this as someone who has worked in education/classrooms for 12 years now.
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Feeding minds with a broad set of information is important, art, geography, history, music, languages, sport, sciences, even religion.
How can any child know what they like, where they want to go, whether they are better with their hands or minds, if they aren't fed the broadest education in the beginning.


I get that a child who possibly wants to be for example a carpenter at age 15, it possibly isn't necessary for that child to be forced to read
Shakespeare for A.level, when they might be better suited to learning a trade at age 16, but gearing education to solely preparing for a trade or career as stated above is wrong.
 
Billie Cheemus said:
Sunderland’s not that bad man. The Greggs on Northumberland St have their staff behind glass now, and you regularly see scrotes just walking off with whatever they like from there.

Monument metro has better facilities than Sunderland’s main station. That can’t be right.
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Monument metro cost more than the current Sunderland railway station and it was built years ago. Funny that, spend more money you get better facilities.
 
Beau Peep said:
I don't know this "train station", is it near the railway station? The railway station where you can catch a train to the planeport?
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I'm usually quite pedantic about the English language but "train station" has never really bothered me. It's a station where you catch a train just as a bus station is where you get a bus.
 
dancingradio said:
Yes indeed its obviously knocked up on chat gbt to get some clicks from the throwbacks and low IQ brigade who live in the past
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Council getting it wrong again, we don't need more fashion in the city centre, an NCB jacket was good enough for me........ blah blah blah
 
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