The road to hell is paved with....

This from Just for Stu...

Here is the Metro leaflet for the Leeds Festival.

Note the stern injunction about mud and boarding trains:

And here is the concourse at Leeds Station on Monday afternoon, with most of Bramham Park deposited on it.

Presumably clean up costs are having to be borne by the railway?

On the plus side the Metro leaflet makes no mention of muddy festival goers being denied access to the station...

Thoughts on King's Cross western ticket hall

A brief reflection on the truly magnificent new western ticket hall at King's Cross.


At Broad Street we lost a station to development.

At Liverpool Street we gained retail and office space with platforms.

At King's Cross we actually get a station first and foremost, offering some retail opportunities.

Good effort.

Meanwhile, this picture from last night's gala opening.


Eye is tempted to caption it 'Partnership'...

New uses for old railway stations?

This from Driver Potter...

So first we have Waterloo International blazing a brave trail for stations that don't want to be stations by becoming a theatre.

And now we have Edge Hill, which according to the BBC has pretensions of artistic endeavour.

Of course being at the cutting edge of contemporary railway thinking I have no doubt that the Eye will be able to think of even more controversial uses for railway stations.

Perhaps as places where trains can stop so that the poor bloody passenger can get on and off them. (Nah - too radical. Ed)