I like the underground and the darkness to it and I like the platforms too but yes architecturally the station looks very ugly outside. It’s like a big huge box
I think Birmingham New Street is ugly and soulless, particularly at platform level, where inevitably my train is delayed. It depresses me standing on it. That’s why the lack of traffic in the game doesn’t bother me, the less time I have to spend there, the better. If I can when I’m in Birmingham (IRL), I’ll have a walk round to Moor Street, which is lovely.
The new Euston is further south than the original and much closer to Euston Road and the Tube station, so all the original buildings would be halfway down the platforms.
i’m so happy that 1960s architecture didn’t ruin any other terminii in london but it absolutely destroyed euston
Birmingham Snow Hill. They controversely knocked down the beautiful old station and less than 20 years later they built something which is is akin to a multistorey car park with a brick and glass front!
Redcar British steel! What's even worse is if you do accidentally get off when the train stops, you are stuck there for what seems like eternity.
They did build on top of the platforms at Liverpool Street, Charing Cross and Victoria, ruining the ambience, but at least the main buildings were retained.
I like the look and style of Euston, it has, or rather had, some beautiful modernist flourishes prior to the numerous remodelisations of the past 30 years. It was flawed from the get go, but less so than the station it replaced. People only choose to remember the nice bits from the previous Euston station buildings, namely the waiting hall, and for some reason the hideous arch, but the rest of it was just a hodge podge of different buildings, and accessing it from the main Euston road was even more of a mess than it is now. It is probably the least worst of the big London stations to have lost, compared to St. Pancras or Paddington, for example, it was much less of an engineering or architectural marvel. The new station concourse was a worthy replacement... The platforms and plaza out front less so. On this topic though, I did see plans have been put forward to redevelop Liverpool Street station recently, and they are nothing short of scandalous. The plan is basically to cover the entire concourse with an office building (using laughably misleading renderings that indicate there will be more light in the station as a result of replacing a glass roof with a 16 storey office building). Though only the new additionals from the 80s/90s remodelisation will be removed, the whole point of those additions was to blend in with the original design, thereby offsetting the loss of parts of the original station. https://www.dezeen.com/2022/11/25/herzog-de-meuron-liverpool-street-station-redevelopment/
Liverpool Street's main building and concourse is all new - built in 1990 - but matches the original - it could even be listed now. There was talk of it
