please empty your brain below
Crystal Palace Station is an absolutely beautiful building.

Karen | Homepage | 22.11.12 - 7:13 a.m. | #

Crystal Palace. Wow.

Chz | 22.11.12 - 7:19 a.m. | #

Oh, two people have already said the same but I'm going to say it as well - I went through Crystal Palace a few weeks ago for the first time in my adult life, and i just stopped inside and looked up around and thought "Wow!". It's amazing. It's not a station, it's a cathedral, which just happens to have trains running through it. Even all the non-train-geeks reading this would be seriously impressed if you ever went there.

geofftech | Homepage | 22.11.12 - 8:16 a.m. | #

Crystal Palace is my local station, and the new (old) building is a huge improvement.

TfL did a great job doing it up - before they started work on it they opened the old building so the public could wonder around. They had a mini exhibition of what it used to look like and was going to look like, and a massive photo album someone had put together of the building of the Overground. It's nice when you see a government department go a bit out of their way and show some enthusiasm for what they're working on.

Here are some photos a local blogger took of the station before it was done up - just 6 months ago. The ones from the roof are impressive: http://thetrianglese19.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/crystal-palace-station.html

Ed Lyons | 22.11.12 - 8:50 a.m. | #

At the time of the Clapham Junction renumbering, here was a sign on the Overground platform explaining what was going on. Wish I'd taken a photograph of it but it basically went:

"We're creating a new platform 2. This means that the current Platform 2 will be renumbered Platform 1. Platform 1 will be renumbered Platform 0. Please take note of your new platform numbers".

At which point I raised my eyebrows and went "Platform 0?!"

I did especially like the fact they told us to take note of the number for a platform that's not had a train in decades and isn't even listed on the station platform guide!

There's aren't many platform 0s in the UK - Kings Cross, Haymarket, Stockport and Cardiff Central all spring to mind. But there is one at Clapham Junction as well now.

Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 22.11.12 - 9:21 a.m. | #

Ah, here's a copy of the poster.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/76209961@N06/6845178925/

Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 22.11.12 - 9:22 a.m. | #

I'm so chuffed with the new Crystal Palace - I live just up the road and it's been amazing to see it blossom over the past few years. Hopefully the much-needed new lifts won't mar the cathedral-like space.

Peter G | 22.11.12 - 10:39 a.m. | #

Flickr photo stats go mad - ah yes, DG has linked to some of my photos :-)

And yes Crystal Palace station is lovely. Those photos were already popular before today but now *very* popular.

PC | 22.11.12 - 1:17 p.m. | #

is this near crystal palace fc?

misskaypo | Homepage | 23.11.12 - 4:37 a.m. | #

Not really, misskaypo. CPFC is nearest to Selhurst station.

THC | 23.11.12 - 6:44 a.m. | #

Am I just being thick or is the Clapham Junction story strange?

1. There's an unused platform with just a cabin sitting on it for site security or something like this. Why could they not use that one?

2. And why don't the Overground line trains just circle around London? Why the changeover at CLJ?

L. Windsor | Homepage | 05.12.12 - 10:57 a.m. | #

L. Windsor - answer to 1) is that the supports for the unused platform has corroded a lot over the years and it's no longer capable of supporting the weight of trains without extensive and highly expensive repair work - the implemented solution was cheaper.

I don't know the exact answer for 2 but suspect the reason is similar to why TfL made the Circle a Spiral - to ensure reliability. But also at Clapham Junction, the platform layout doesn't allow through trains to go north - although trains from Wilsden Junction could go south.

Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 05.12.12 - 11:23 a.m. | #

Correction to my comment. Platform configuration should allow trains to go north (I think) but trains coming south can't. Probably.

Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 05.12.12 - 12:06 p.m. | #











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