The horror that is Birmingham New Street

Go through New St when I go to visit my parents ... haven't had any issues like the OP descibes, the only issues I normally have is finding the platform the train I need to change to is going from and then finding somewhere warm to wait for it in, (never seems to be a waiting room on the platform I need).

Admittedly I do tend to go through it quite early in the morning when any freaks and weirdos are probably still in bed/gutter
 
I've never had any problems in New street or brum for that matter and I'm there fairly often
 
ojrules said:
The OP makes me proud to be a brummy... you've just gotta ignore people im afraid :P
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This....but than again I have to work at New Street Station so I never did or take any notice. At least you dont get some ramdon guy asking you for your credit card details like I was a years back at London Euston.
Still dont understand why they are spending so much on New Street Station when they are building another train station not too far way.
 
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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Lincoln in the south?!?!

HAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA :D
 
Morgoth said:
Birmingham New Street really is the most depressing train station I've passed through, the very air you breath is a poisonous fume.
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This

i had the misfortune to use it when i was a student.

Never knew for certain what platform i was supposed to be on, place is like a maze designed to trap people in there, and the people were rude and unhelpfull when you tried to work out what platform you needed.

Its not so bad if you walk from outside the station to a specific platform, but when you get dumped off one train onto a random platform, and need to find what platform you need to change onto, its a nightmare.

At least in leeds station (my nearest big one) they have big screens up telling you what train is at what platform on most of the platforms making it dead easy to find your train.
 
MrLOL said:
At least in leeds station (my nearest big one) they have big screens up telling you what train is at what platform on most of the platforms making it dead easy to find your train.
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There are loads of big screens, where was you looking, they cant be missed :confused:
 
this was like 10 years ago, might have changed since then :D

When i was last there, you had to leave your platform and go all the way upstairs to the gantries crossing the platform to find a screen.

And even then, the information as to what platforms what train stopped at, wasnt easily available
 
the screens were there over 10 yrs ago. i remember when i got the wrong train back from worcester and ended up there in 1996 when i was 16.
 
Or just get the National Rail App on the iPhone, it display LIVE information of ALL train stations in the country. Basically the screens in the stations on your phone.

It means I know what platform i need to go to before I arrive at the station, it tells me if the train is late, or cancelled.
 
I feel I must defend my home city.............but New St Station is a hole, no arguments :)

However, Digbeth Coach Station (as already mentioned) is where it's really at - I've been to some pretty rough places around the world, and none of them come close to that hell on earth. I suggest you go for a visit and then New St will seem like a tropical paradise :)
 
Bengaboy said:
Awwwww man - what a ****hole!

Everytime I come here, which is quite often as I travel home from Plymouth to Leicester most weekends, I am either harassed by groups of black men thinking if I look at them funny I'll get stabbed, or when I am outside smoking, I get hassled by 40 year old women on crack asking me for money, and saying that a group of lads have just offered her sex, and she wouldn't do it, even though she does sometimes, and might do today if I don't give her moniez.

I obviously didn't give her money and hope she gets HIV and dies.

I don't like trains.

Anyone else have to pass through this nasty piece of work?
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This is quite funny... these were my exact thoughts when i went there on Sunday. It makes me Bradford like like a palace in comparrison lol
 
Phog said:
Woahhh what's wrong with St Davids?! :p
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Whenever I go to see my Parents in Cornwall I have to go through the Station to get on the SW Trains. Its just so old, and the trains are small and full of nosey old people going shopping or whatever it is old people do :p
 
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