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Sunderland railway station.


Brett said:
He is impressing me as MP for Sunderland, definitely doesn't let things past him by
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No doubt he will get grief no matter what he does, compared to say Chris Mullin when he was our MP, night and day. Thought Mullin couldn't have cared less about Sunderland, it was just the place that allowed him to be an MP. Back then Sunderland would have voted anybody in wearing red rosette. This Lewis lad knows he has to do stuff for the city if he wants to stay as MP, seems decent bloke.
 
Travelled through the station on Monday. The platform level area is horrendous. dark and dingy like a run down underground station in a power cut. What’s galling is that Middlesborough Station is so much better, like a mainline station as opposed to our underground bunker.
 
mackem35 said:
No doubt he will get grief no matter what he does, compared to say Chris Mullin when he was our MP, night and day. Thought Mullin couldn't have cared less about Sunderland, it was just the place that allowed him to be an MP. Back then Sunderland would have voted anybody in wearing red rosette. This Lewis lad knows he has to do stuff for the city if he wants to stay as MP, seems decent bloke.
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Not true mind. The most useless MP we've had in recent times was Bill Etherington.
 
Lord Nigle said:
Travelled through the station on Monday. The platform level area is horrendous. dark and dingy like a run down underground station in a power cut. What’s galling is that Middlesborough Station is so much better, like a mainline station as opposed to our underground bunker.
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Always expect Charles bronson to step out of the shadows or the warriers to come racing along the platform
Closest it’s come to this was Malcolm Allison dressed in a massive sheepskin coat waiting for the boro train after match
 
Lord Nigle said:
Travelled through the station on Monday. The platform level area is horrendous. dark and dingy like a run down underground station in a power cut. What’s galling is that Middlesborough Station is so much better, like a mainline station as opposed to our underground bunker.
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Why is that 'galling' ?
 
seahamstar said:
Was the original station (Sunderland) on the same site?
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Aye. It was bombed during the war and was low priority on the rebuilding scale afterwards. It was finally rebuilt in time for the 1966 World Cup. What was originally an arch spanned roof was covered in shops to help British Rail raise revenue from its property portfolio.
 
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