Edinburgh Waverley station needs me.

[TallOrLong]

Here are the facts:

• I go to many train stations, I never ever get confused elsewhere.
• I never go to Waverley without walking round in a big loop in a state of confusion.
• From observation I am not the only one.

I am prepared to provide executive advice. Payment terms are a baguette from upper crust, a bag of percy pigs from M&S and some scottish fudge from, well, somewhere that sells good fudge.

This is not actually an AIBU, because I am not being unreasonable. I am on a train leaving Edinburgh having finally found my platform. See you next time for the same fun again Waverley!

Oh god yeah! I would take Waverly every time over Birmingham New Street!

I got stuck at Peterborough once for over 3 hours
on the hottest day of the year possibly decade I’d have done anything for a draught! Thank fook for the free water fountain!

Oh yes, RIP Felix and happy retirement to Bolt.

It's donkeys since I went through Peterborough, I remember I could never tell the difference between Peterborough and Stevenage, which is such a northern thing to say 😀

Taunton is a station that manages to remain at an ambient temperature all year round. No idea what that's all about but I wish Network Rail would roll it out across the country.

From Edinburgh, I thought it was just me 🤣

Ahh! I don’t think I have ever departed from Doncaster, only passed through (and to be fair the train driver has to pass exams to be deemed competent to do this).

I am intrigued, and that was before you mentioned awesome pub.

I live a very sad life in that I’ve never been to Edinburgh or Glasgow, both of which my adult ds informs me are well worth visiting (but have gone more Scottisher to The Highlands!)
I’ve always found Birmingham New Street hideously confusing. It’s all zones and gates and see through walls.
Tunnocks (all varieties) are imho superior to Percy Pigs. And are Scottish so that confirms their better status.

Is there a plaque marking this achievement? There should be. I will insist (I mean plaques are basically signs, they will be in my jurisdiction).

Did your MiL recognise your efforts?!

York is windy, true. But the toilets were refurbished I think relatively recently and it gets points for that. It also has a good solid platform layout. I can’t mark it too harshly.

I had time to kill once at Waverley (meeting people off a much delayed train) and whiled away the time helping a guy find the platform for Aberdeen. He was clearly in drink and it was early afternoon. I asked when he had started drinking. "Wednesday".

Suspect oil rig related.

Also I'll take Haymarket and raise you a Slateford. Parked there got the train to Waverley to meet DS returning from school trip, both train back to Slateford. Jump in car.

Doesn’t it depend which way the train is going? There must be one way round that getting on at Haymarket is advantageous. Maybe I’m so disorientated though that I am not thinking right.

You don't know what a windy railway station is until you've been on the Settle/Carlisle line. Standing at Ribblehead Station (N Yorks) with the wind coming at you from all four points of the compass (sometimes all at once!), it can whip a fur-lined Icelandic knitted hat off your head in a nanosecond...

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I love using Slateford when I can. I sometimes take a slower train just so I can use it. That's a bit sad really, isn't it?!

This is excellent input. Maybe Darlington has the perfect layout in homage to Stephenson. Perhaps once they finally finish refurbishing it then we’ll find out.

Actually, Newcastle does not do itself any favours with its muddled order, but at least the signage works.

The map that needs a map to be found. I rest my case 😆

Nope. Say you board a train at Haymarket. If the train is going out of Edinburgh, you're less likely to get a seat, although it's not impossible. If the train is going into Edinburgh, you can sit down for a maximum of four minutes before you arrive at... Waverley.

There's a guy who wanders around helping folk. He works for Scotrail. Look out for his funny hats. He'll keep you right!🙂

This is the honest truth. I prefer tablet. I wrote tablet originally. But then I altered it in case the more southern correspondents were not aware of the delights of tablet.

Yes but who puts a downward ramp to the platforms, then says do not run? It practically tips me forward and I have to lean back to stop running! Very odd design!

edit: this is Euston, I do not run in Birmingham. There are too many gates and barriers to allow running there.

Oh interesting. I have gotten slightly lost st Waverly before, but I often go the wrong way in train stations, so assumed it was just me! I'm only good at Clapham Junction as it's so easy

🤣🤣🤣 no
Some are behind the barriers, some are to the left (with 2 platforms on 1 platform and I dont mean each side but 2 on 1 side) and others to the right and none of the signs make any sense if you dont know Waverley well, oh and they have a nasty habit of swapping which platform your train is due in at with less than 5 mins warning aswell.

This is truly a point well made. It is shameful how much more difficult this must be.

If I get this signage improvement role, accessibility information and guidance will be prioritised. There are enough issues with platform assistance itself without adding this extra difficulty too.

I know and love Waverley dearly, but my particular favourite is that platforms 7 and 11 are exactly the same platform.

Absolute genius.

Surely there is no station in the country worse than Birmingham New Street?

Massive childhood flashbacks here. Remember in the eighties when Settle-Carlisle was almost permanently under threat of closure? My father was involved in campaigning to keep it going, so (along with grandfather signalman) I spent half my childhood at Ribblehead. It was parky to say the least.

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