The horror that is Birmingham New Street

Captain_Slick said:
It's the Midlands. Most of the North of England is sparsely populated countryside and small towns.
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I have to disagree with this statement, or say that the South is exactly the same if not more prominently countryside. The South has London, whereas the North has Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Leeds and Sheffield. It all balances out.

The Midlands is still no mans land though.
 
Captain_Slick said:
It isn't though, is it?

It's the Midlands. Most of the North of England is sparsely populated countryside and small towns.
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Yep...

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North, South...:p

For some reason southern northerners hate being called northerners so they made up something in between. :P
 
I've been through New Street loads of times and never had a problem? Guess it depends on the platform?
 
RandomTom said:
I have to disagree with this statement, or say that the South is exactly the same if not more prominently countryside. The South has London, whereas the North has Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Leeds and Sheffield. It all balances out.

The Midlands is still no mans land though.
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How does that balance out? London is bigger than all of the North's cities put together and then some... :o

Plus most of 'The South' doesn't really count as the south. Cornwall and the Southwest are parts of Wales and Norfolk is abroad.
 
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New Street was the first place in the UK I saw that started charging to use public toilets. Anywhere that charges for public toilets is a dump IMO.:p
 
Amp34 said:
Yep...

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North, South...:p

For some reason southern northerners hate being called northerners so they made up something in between. :P
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That map is stupid - how can that include Lincoln but exclude Birmingham?

I'd class anything above Stoke (midlands) as north - and as a straight line west-east.
 
It's been the standard (severn-wash) line for the last couple of hundred years for dividing the North/South... ;)
 
Birmingham New Street really is the most depressing train station I've passed through, the very air you breath is a poisonous fume.
 
I use New Street quite a lot (Will be there tommorrow infact) and whilst it isn't going to win any 'Great Station' awards I've never had a problem there either.

The rest of Birmingham, mind... plenty of really dodgy areas including completely bizarre areas like the bit I drove through once which had loads of BMW M3's, AMG Mercs and other 5-8 year old BMW's, Mercs and Audi's simply strewn all over the pavements, roads, on one particular road as if they'd all been abandoned. It was very strange :confused:
 
I thought they were modernising New St soon? So it'll look ok for a bit, but its the people who hang about there that will drag the image down, as with any area.
 
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