Heuston and Connolly scoop best station awards in UK and Ireland - do you agree?

MyKeyG

mickydoomsux wrote: »

The usual suspects predictably nitpicking at something positive that happens to/in IE.

Ah now in fairness even if it had nothing to do with passenger numbers it's not just good old nit picking. Britain has an international train station for crying out loud. It's bigger than some of our airports. I find it hard to believe that it was beaten by a station where Supermacs is the first thing you see having gotten off the train.

foggy_lad

Niles wrote: »

Have to admit it's pretty well kept by the staff there, who also took the initiative of setting up a Facebook page (they did a particularly good effort at keeping people updated during the Landsdowne bridge closure).

What else do they do all day?

BostonB

Is this real or a joke?

psychward

BostonB wrote: »

Is this real or a joke?

maybe the award was for standard of hooker on Benburb Street outside Heuston Station versus Kings Cross Station etc

MyKeyG

psychward wrote: »

maybe the award was for standard of hooker on Benburb Street outside Heuston Station versus Kings Cross Station etc

Or for the most change accumulated by beggars at the LUAS platform.

L1011

How is Connolly rated as a smaller station than Heuston seeing as it has the bulk of Commuter/DART services and Heuston has the Kildare line and the bogs serving it??

foggy_lad

MYOB wrote: »

How is Connolly rated as a smaller station than Heuston seeing as it has the bulk of Commuter/DART services and Heuston has the Kildare line and the bogs serving it??

Heuston has more platforms and even has a tunnel under the park as well as two ticket offices while Connolly is just a glorified dart station:D

Yahew

runway16 wrote: »

Sorry to dissent from the usual chorus of disapproval for IE (Which I do myself indulge in quite often) but I find Heuston station excellent as stations of it's size go. Its clean, has just enough services without cramming them in to every imaginable space like they do in the UK, the signage is now very good, the Information displays are clear, large and easy to see.

As for distances to platforms, where else were they supposed to put them for god sake?

Connolly is OK..... it serves it's purpose but really doesnt deserve an award.

Its better than most major English stations I use, most of which are zoos. The "platforms are too far away" complaint is funny. funny weird, not funny haha.

MyKeyG

MYOB wrote: »

How is Connolly rated as a smaller station than Heuston seeing as it has the bulk of Commuter/DART services and Heuston has the Kildare line and the bogs serving it??

Someone needs to give you a microphone and a stage because the originality of your humour is second to none:rolleyes:

Yahew

MyKeyG wrote: »

Ah now in fairness even if it had nothing to do with passenger numbers it's not just good old nit picking. Britain has an international train station for crying out loud. It's bigger than some of our airports. I find it hard to believe that it was beaten by a station where Supermacs is the first thing you see having gotten off the train.

It wasn't in the competition. The only station which is world class in London is St. Pancreas - the other British stations I know are pretty sh*te.

L1011

MyKeyG wrote: »

Someone needs to give you a microphone and a stage because the originality of your humour is second to none:rolleyes:

Humour?

MyKeyG

Yahew wrote: »

It wasn't in the competition. The only station which is world class in London is St. Pancreas - the other British stations I know are pretty sh*te.

So Heuston won the least ****e award?

A Dub in Glasgo

Yahew wrote: »

It wasn't in the competition. The only station which is world class in London is St. Pancreas - the other British stations I know are pretty sh*te.

Outside of London, Glasgow Central is a fantastic station, one I use every day to and from work.

I also like Edinburgh Waverley and it locale although the station is a little bit of underwhelming

n97 mini

parsi wrote: »

I dont't expect Kingsbridge to have a London Underground Station, a sleeper stop to Scotland or indeed a selection of Uk shops.

Get real - compare the stations on their generic facilities and not local facilities

Ok.

Heuston has a Luas stop outside the front of the building, not in it.
The equivalent of a sleeper is the 23:10 to Athy. Not really the same.
If you want Uk shops, or any shops, you have to go to Liffey Valley or the city centre.

The only thing really nice about Heuston is the architecture of the facade. But that's easily bettered by a host of stations in the UK. Just look at Charing X station, no comparison.

icdg

The "UK and Ireland" bit is a bit of a joke when the operator of the 18 biggest stations in Great Britain - including most of the London Terminals - didn't participate.

BostonB

Yahew wrote: »

It wasn't in the competition. The only station which is world class in London is St. Pancreas - the other British stations I know are pretty sh*te.

I've been in unused stations in the UK run by volunteers, that have more shelter and facilities than either of these two stations. There isn't even a simple shelter from the wind on Connolly's outer platform, and you can't even get to a loo.

BostonB

psychward wrote: »

maybe the award was for standard of hooker on Benburb Street outside Heuston Station versus Kings Cross Station etc

I don't think they'd even win on that basis.

Yahew

n97 mini wrote: »

Ok.

Heuston has a Luas stop outside the front of the building, not in it.
The equivalent of a sleeper is the 23:10 to Athy. Not really the same.
If you want Uk shops, or any shops, you have to go to Liffey Valley or the city centre.

The only thing really nice about Heuston is the architecture of the facade. But that's easily bettered by a host of stations in the UK. Just look at Charing X station, no comparison.

Where exactly do you people expect the sleeper to go? Belfast and back, then Belfast again?

foggy_lad

n97 mini wrote: »

Ok.

Heuston has a Luas stop outside the front of the building, not in it.
The equivalent of a sleeper is the 23:10 to Athy. Not really the same.
If you want Uk shops, or any shops, you have to go to Liffey Valley or the city centre.

The only thing really nice about Heuston is the architecture of the facade. But that's easily bettered by a host of stations in the UK. Just look at Charing X station, no comparison.

Afaik there is no 23.10 to Athy. there is a train to Kildare at that time.

Rud

foggy_lad wrote: »

Afaik there is no 23.10 to Athy. there is a train to Kildare at that time.

Exactly.The last train to go through Athy on weeknights is the laden timber train on it's way to Waterford

merengueca

n97 mini wrote: »

I don't care who entered.

Heuston is not better than St Pancras. Heuston isn't even better than Euston.

Ah now, Tullamore is better than Euston!:rolleyes:

n97 mini

foggy_lad wrote: »

Afaik there is no 23.10 to Athy. there is a train to Kildare at that time.

The point is that an overnight sleeper to Scotland is far more monumental than a late-ish train to some kip in the midlands.

Yahew

n97 mini wrote: »

The point is that an overnight sleeper to Scotland is far more monumental than a late-ish train to some kip in the midlands.

I still haven't worked out where you expect this sleeper to go.

DWCommuter

Yahew wrote: »

I still haven't worked out where you expect this sleeper to go.

To sleep. Its getting boring.

corktina

Yahew wrote: »

It wasn't in the competition. The only station which is world class in London is St. Pancreas - the other British stations I know are pretty sh*te.

ST Pancras IS the International station is it not?

parsi

CIE wrote: »

The U55 was intended to be an extension of the U5 at least. Work is under way to get it finished all the way to Alexanderplatz, and it does at least connect with the S-Bahn.

/slaps side of head. I'd forgotten about the U55 even though I'd travelled on it.

Still know which waterside station I prefer. Mmmm.. bretzels.

Hilly Bill

Yep i agree , the awards were well deserved.