What's the Deal With the New Sunderland Station?

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@magpieroost 14 күн бұрын

I remember that the wall of lights at platform level used to be animated with silhouettes of people. I can't remember when that stopped, but it's a real shame - it wouldn't have made it an exciting station, but it gave it a little bit of uniqueness and character.

@judyfay6318 29 күн бұрын

Sunderland New Station building has to be the most disgraceful waste of money spent ! It’s a huge empty waste of space to nobody’s benefit ! Nothing works , toilets rarely, escalators rarely, only one lift , absolutely appalling ! The platform is without a doubt the worst dingy dark ,dirty on the entire line. What has the £27 million been spent on? Shame on whoever is responsible.

@iman2341 8 ай бұрын

Painting the roof supports black was a big miss. It’s depresses the impact of what is actually quite an impressive roof span. Red or even metro yellow would have made a huge difference!

@roderickjoyce6716 8 ай бұрын

Sunderland is on the Durham coast line and the Metro, Newcastle Central is on the ECML and so the railway through Newcastle is busier and more important (the Metro has its own separate station underneath the main line). But Sunderland city is the same size as Newcastle, and even if traffic wouldn't justify a station as big as Newcastle Central (12 platforms plus two for the Metro, plus Boots, WH Smith, Greggs, Pumpkin, Costa, etc)), the city deserves a much better gateway than a the hole in the ground with a bare shed for an entrance. At the moment it hasn't even got a proper taxi rank.

@PhilBrown-ik1dk 8 ай бұрын

Over the last 30 years or so, big rail stations have become much more attractive for travellers with the addition of coffee shops & misc retailers. In the distant past a station would have had just a WH Smith and a kiosk or two selling BR sandwiches. Since then, station revamps have usually seen the introduction of food stores, gift shops, chemists, card shops, etc. Here in Oxford's rather small station there's WH Smith, Upper Crust, Greggs, Costa and a mini M&S - along with tables & seats in the open central space

@tooleyheadbang4239 5 ай бұрын

All of these could have been incorporated in a rational design for Sunderland. Opening-up the platforms to daylight, under a raised glass canopy would have been a good start.

@lynnmorton7544 28 күн бұрын

One thing that they might do is re-open the Sunderland to Durham line; that would be super-useful. As far as I know, the old track bed hasn't been built on

@Steegan3609 8 ай бұрын

One thing that I noticed, it didn’t have a clock anywhere in the station concourse !

@weAreNotAloneHere 4 ай бұрын

It’s Sunderland, it backs onto hendon..

@chloeerose004 8 ай бұрын

I lived in Sunderland for the first 18 years of my life, and yeah whilst the station needed an update, i would hsve tried to start over with a new station rather than expanding on the same one. Like the downstairs part of the station should have been a focus but it looks like thats gonna remain for time. The new building is grand, its a much needed improvement, but having went there myself in March, it just feels empty and soulless, quite fitting for Sunderland tbf as someone from there, but still, not that good and honestly it needs more, its just an empty space

@kennethmcintyre2847 8 ай бұрын

Enjoyed your presentation. Last visited the station 16th October '21 and certainly an improvement. But still very bland. Like Glasgow Queen Street station, The conception for the redevelopment was very encouraging. Plenty of retail shopping and we ended up with ONE shop which took months to open.

@bencoatesworth7731 11 күн бұрын

They could have at least put a metro m sign next to the red arrows on the wall and maybe some screens on the walls with some adverts or information maybe even a news channel like they do in some shopping centres where they is a like food court or large seating area

@cybertenchi82 8 ай бұрын

The platforms had glass canopies and were open to the elements until the metro was extended. I used to use the staton daily as my parents had a business in park lane.

@solsburian 5 ай бұрын

I hope the re-opening of the other bay platform goes ahead still, it would be a massive benefit, especially when the new Metro fleet eventually comes into service as it could give scope for a more intensive service.

@jmp8678 8 ай бұрын

It's visually impressive but it's almost like it's too big for the intended use. Did they do anything at platform level?

@officialmcdeath 8 ай бұрын

Decorating could be as simple as mounting a projector on one of the ceiling trusses \m/

@ChaoDee 8 ай бұрын

more plants will look nice.

@mdhazeldine 8 ай бұрын

Classic case of "value engineering" going on here. "We don't need all of that stuff, let's save some money"

@MetroMark 8 ай бұрын

It just looks like a big empty warehouse. Why remove Burger King and Mulligan's to replace them with a load of empty space?

@pablolowenstein1371 3 ай бұрын

As predicted...another sunderland 'knacker trap'.

@hellfiregrowler Ай бұрын

The bogs are already mingin’. Sure, that’s down to low life vandalising and misusing them but they were awful the last time I was unfortunate to need to use them. Seriously the ones in The Blandford were cleaner!

@Mary-qw4to 5 ай бұрын

Nothing will ever make the building inviting it's just a big glass warehouse, a colossal waste of money in a city where money could have been better spent.

@roderickmain9697 8 ай бұрын

The 60s concrete box was rather underwhelming if not to say, ugly. (What was it with 60s designers????). I think red would have added some pizzazz to it and the black seating seems a let down. Time will tell if things get vamped up a bit.