York Station

[Lat-Literal]

What on earth are they doing to it?

I do hope that they haven't altered the main part of it - both historical and filmic!

It was bad enough when York University expanded onto the green belt!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

What have they done to it?

Apart from the annoying muzak emitting from the speakers above the Virgin Trains cabin (next to W H Smith) it all seems fine.

[Lat-Literal]

What have they done to it?

Apart from the annoying muzak emitting from the speakers above the Virgin Trains cabin (next to W H Smith) it all seems fine.

Thanks Eine.

Unusually I am rushing about a bit but I thought I had read somewhere that there was a new space age design.

It is quite possible that I imagined it or it was in a dream.

I hope so!

[Pulcinella]

No, you weren't dreaming, Lat.
I posted this on ts's new Train Chat thread:

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15283560.Claims_ticket_office_to_be_self_service_venue/

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

It isn't exactly a space-age design!

[gurnemanz]

At a tangent: I remember Judi Dench telling a story about arriving at York station and with taxis in short supply due to a heavy rainstorm sharing one with Archbishop ... the bishop and the actress.

[cloughie]

I have many fond memories of York Station in days of steam and what seemed like an infinite variety of locomotive types.

[Serial_Apologist]

I have many fond memories of York Station in days of steam and what seemed like an infinite variety of locomotive types.

And yet on the other hand I remember a roadside sign saying "Welcome to Yorkshire - slow children crossing"!

[cloughie]

And yet on the other hand I remember a roadside sign saying "Welcome to Yorkshire - slow children crossing"!

Coded message - Southerners go back!

[Serial_Apologist]

Coded message - Southerners go back!

[gurnemanz]

I spent a year in York in the 70s and remember sometimes going to the station in the evening to post a letter directly onto a mail train, knowing it would be delivered in London the next day.

[teamsaint]

I spent a year in York in the 70s and remember sometimes going to the station in the evening to post a letter directly onto a mail train, knowing it would be delivered in London the next day.

When I was a civil servant at the inland revenue, (I know, I know) there used to be an ideas competition, where there were cash prizes for money saving ideas. the odd £25 or £50 prize was the norm.
The biggest prize I recall being awarded was £1400 ( this was the mid 80's) for a clerical assistant at the Shipley collection office, who suggested that a CA should get a late afternoon train to London to bank cheques, rather than posting them, so that an extra days interest was earned overnight.
I guess were were looking at cheques for really huge sums.

[MrGongGong]

The simple solution is to take it back into public ownership
before it was given away to spivs WE were making a huge profit from the East Coast Mainline

[teamsaint]

The simple solution is to take it back into public ownership
before it was given away to spivs WE were making a huge profit from the East Coast Mainline

Ah, so was that "good" profit then ?

( I agree with you about public ownership ).

[vinteuil]

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... if WE (the public / the taxpayer) were making a Huge Profit from the East Coast Mainline, presumably this was at the expense of the paying travellers, who we might say were being overcharged?