Woking

[DOD]Asprilla · 13 Mar 2013 at 13:55

Woking to Waterloo is only 24 minutes but its also the second most over capacity route in the UK. Busy is an understatement.

You could also look at the likes of Byfleet, West Byfleet, Walton and Weybridge.

DiCe! · 13 Mar 2013 at 13:59

Weybridge station is a hole, the most depressing station you can ever go to imo.

act smiley · 13 Mar 2013 at 14:01

randal said:
I spent a lot of my childhood in and around Sheerwater as my Grandparents lived there on Albert Drive, used to frequently walk to the shops and net for sticklebacks in the canal with my Grandad etc.

Was very surprised to hear how bad it had got around there, quite sad really that it's gone to pot like it has.

I'd assume its simply that as more of the "nice" areas attract commuters & the prices shoot up, it forces other areas down?

[DOD]Asprilla · 13 Mar 2013 at 14:06

DiCe! said:
Weybridge station is a hole, the most depressing station you can ever go to imo.

You've obviously never got off that line at Hersham with it's vista taking in the waste reprocessing site and sewage works.

The Dread Pirate · 13 Mar 2013 at 14:08

I'm in bracknell and getting to woking is a *** in the mornings due to the traffic form the M3 but otherwise it's not too far I'd say about 20 mins drive give or take.

randal · 13 Mar 2013 at 14:08

act smiley said:
I'd assume its simply that as more of the "nice" areas attract commuters & the prices shoot up, it forces other areas down?

Aye, most likely. The other reason is the age of the populous, a lot of Sheerwater was OAP bound around the time I used to visit my grandparents. A lot of Londoners moved out to the 'burbs after the war and settled in places like Sheerwater, as they've moved or passed away I guess their houses have gone back to the council for rehoming.

Re: Weybridge - Hideously expensive. Hand and Spear pub on a Friday or Saturday night is rammed full of top posh totty however.

[DOD]Asprilla · 13 Mar 2013 at 14:11

randal said:
Hand and Spear pub on a Friday or Saturday night is rammed full of top posh totty however.

Isn't it just.

DiCe! · 13 Mar 2013 at 14:21

randal said:
Re: Weybridge - Hideously expensive. Hand and Spear pub on a Friday or Saturday night is rammed full of top posh totty however.

Why have I never been there?!

leaskovski · 13 Mar 2013 at 14:35

Skeeter said:
Whats it like?

I've realised that to progress in the industry I'm currently employed in I need to be able to commute to London, and if not London, most other jobs seem to be Surrey based (Guildford/Woking, etc). So its looking increasingly likely I will have to move up that way.

Woking seems ideal. Its on the main Waterloo line, and central to all the other potential opportunities in that area. Whats it like to live there? What are good places live and where should be avoided? The other option for trains is Guildford really. Is that a better or worse bet?

Stop stalking McLaren you loon.

krooton · 13 Mar 2013 at 14:43

randal said:
Re: Weybridge - Hideously expensive. Hand and Spear pub on a Friday or Saturday night is rammed full of top posh totty however.

Our go-to after work pub for Tuesday quiz nights

cHk4 · 13 Mar 2013 at 14:45

krooton said:
Our go-to after work pub for Tuesday quiz nights

Didn't realize you lived near me.

You wanna see classy birds, you should come over to Aldershot for a night out... Some real class there

[DOD]Asprilla · 13 Mar 2013 at 14:53

krooton said:
Our go-to after work pub for Tuesday quiz nights

It's weird, I know people who used to come down from London (Southfields / Earlsfield) to go for a night out at the H&S. Never been able to work out why.

randal · 13 Mar 2013 at 14:53

Big Cheeks night out reunion?

Girls passed out on pavements, legs akimbo, smothered in kebab. Standard.

cHk4 · 13 Mar 2013 at 14:57

randal said:
Big Cheeks night out reunion?

Girls passed out on pavements, legs akimbo, smothered in kebab. Standard.

The good old days! I miss Cheeks

leaskovski · 13 Mar 2013 at 15:04

cHk4 said:
Didn't realize you lived near me.

You wanna see classy birds, you should come over to Aldershot for a night out... Some real class there

Nothing classy about that!

The Mrs owns a flat over there... needless to say, I was glad when she moved in with me and I didnt have to drive over there any more. Not that she is an Aldershot lass

She just happened to buy a flat there as it was good for getting into London and wasn't too far from Frimley where she used to work.

Anyway, skeeter, I would say Fleet is nice though a bit further out.

cHk4 · 13 Mar 2013 at 15:07

leaskovski said:
Nothing classy about that!

The Mrs owns a flat over there... needless to say, I was glad when she moved in with me and I didnt have to drive over there any more. Not that she is an Aldershot lass She just happened to buy a flat there as it was good for getting into London and wasn't too far from Frimley where she used to work.

Anyway, skeeter, I would say Fleet is nice though a bit further out.

Aldershot is one of the best places for a night out. If you want you can easily have a fight and a shag before 8PM and then be back out for your 2nd wind.

On a serious note I bet you were glad when she moved out, Fleet isn't too bad.

[DOD]Asprilla · 13 Mar 2013 at 15:11

Mates have just moved from Walton to Fleet; I think it's still only 35 minutes from Waterloo in a morning.

krooton · 13 Mar 2013 at 15:26

cHk4 said:
Didn't realize you lived near me.

I don't

Live in Morden, work in Addlestone, so Weybridge is my connecting station.

leaskovski · 13 Mar 2013 at 16:02

One does simply not just walk in to Morden

uncle_rufus · 13 Mar 2013 at 16:04

How bizarre, I didn't realise how many people on here would be from that area! - I grew up in Woking (a while ago now) and honestly don't much care for it. As many here have pointed out Guildford is arguably better in every respect, though I can't say I miss it either...

To me it always felt like a place with absolutely zero character or identity, sure the H.G.Wells stuff but all that amounts to is a 15ft high statue of a tri-pod in the town centre (that apparantly cost many tens of thousands of wasted pounds)... Other than that it has nothing, it's "That town near Guildford isn't it?". I agree that the distance to London is a plus, being able to go to gigs and things easily.

McLaren are not really based in Woking either - their HQ is quite far away from the town towards Chertsey (not far from what was once EAs European HQ).

I also heard (possibly the kind of urban rumour kids come up with) that during the plague the Woking line was one of the major stop-offs for trains full of bodies which were put in mass graves in what is now Old Woking. Some years later when the town tried to move on from that image they decided to expand the main part of town on the opposite side of the station instead (hence creating "Old" Woking) and this is why the larger main part of the station complex is facing away from the town centre.