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!

It can’t be as bad as the Paris Gare du Nord. Anyone who likes to think the U.K. is shit, should try taking the Eurostar and comparing the Gare D N with St Pancras. IMO it’s especially noticeable on the way back.

Added to which, I gather the French trains are on strike yet again today. Sister in law who was flying in from Singapore today, and needed to get to the Dijon area, has had to hire a car and drive, instead - after a very long flight.

You possibly underestimate the value of an upper crust baguette to me. Yum yum yum!

There is a distinct lack of correctly positioned exit signage at BNS. The weirdest thing (to me anyway, who spent a lot of my childhood holidays arriving and departing from there), is that despite all the refurb and changes 'up top', once you've negotiated the zoning and travelled down to platform level, it's almost exactly the same as it was in the 80s. The coldest platforms ever!

Have you actually been to Edinburgh Waverly? If only it was that simple.

A freshly baked croissant. I’m listening (I mean, I like upper crust baguettes, I’m totally signed up for authentic french goods!)

And now you mention it, Dundee surely the windiest station. I mean the wind is so bad it basically bent the whole platforms into a curve.

This is exactly what I was saying in a post a short-time ago @GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER St Pancras is like heaven compared to Gare du Nord. And Bruxelles Midi is even worse. It's smaller but even more disorganised if that is possible. And the Belgians appear to have passed a law banning digital screens on platforms. So no-one really knows where they're going. It's all a bit pot luck as to whether you end up in Cologne or Ghent!

Ya know, that's what waverley is really missing, a good pub, Centrals got plenty around it. I'm an absolute genius when I've had a few, so maybe that's all it takes. A bar at the entrance with a bogof offer and 25% rail discount, sold!!

I'll raise you - Manchester Piccadilly

I have never seen wacky hat man! Do you have to show a certain level of puzzlement before he appears?

Please don't. I'm still having nightmares 😳

My dad was in Perth Royal for months as a kid, I cannot tell you how many times my mum had us in hysterics about being cold. That was 30 year ago, sure it's improved now...

I've surprised myself at mentioning Dundee as I try to not allow that station to occupy my mind at all. For two reasons:

1. The Tay Bridge Disaster. I know it was a million years ago but still, seeing the old bits of the original bridge in the water as you go over the replacement...<shudders>

2. When Tam Dalyell was MP for that part of Dundee (and Father of the House) he reported to Parliament that bit of the Tay Bridge kept falling off and landing in the gardens of his constituents 😮

Hence Dundee and I are not overly simpatico.

Nope. They put the V&A museum in, all very nice, but useless as a windbreaker.

Take pebbles the pigeons will eat your breadcrumbs

The Malt Shovel on Cockburn Street.

The catch is you have to escape from Waverley first.

I was at Piccadilly on Saturday when Euston was up the wall and anyone going north was told to head for Manchester and try to travel on from there. I do use Man Picc a few times a year and just remembered that platform 14 specifically needs to be added to The List of Draughtiest Train Stations In The World. Near the top.

Also why are the travelators never working there? Are they Man Picc's equivalent of the Bham New St fake Pret I wonder? 🤔

Point 1: I agree. But is there a better train bridge related view? I’ll even take the Ribblehead lovers on over this.

I was unaware of point 2. I need to read more about this!

Isn't that illegal in Scotland?
Or even just mentioning alcohol and a special offer in the same sentence?

All these years thinking that I was a total eejit because I can't work Waverly out.

This doesn’t really count as nobody really truly honestly knows if they need to be at Victoria or Piccadilly, so you start on the back foot. It’s not a true comparison.

Or Oxford Road. Or Deansgate (which has surprisingly beautiful tiling.) And you can throw Salford Crescent in that mix these days.

This cannot be true. This is a new Scottish style horror genre, surely “ways to make Waverley worse”.

@LegoLandslide hay market

This is true, but surely anyone is there only because:
they are walkers (in which case surely they knew the score)
or
came to experience Bronte land, in which case how do they think there were all those billowing gowns in the books?

I’m also not entirely sure we can, in all good faith, put the beauty of Yorkshire against the ladies toilets on platform 2 of Peterborough and think it a fair contest?

We really, really need the laughing emoji back!