What's the smell at Blackfriars?

Most days when YOU go to catch the train, there’s the most horrific smell as I approach the platforms? And you thought it was the toilets? How very dare you, what a fackin’ liberty, etc;

Posted over 3 years ago by Mockernee

It’s the smell of a shitty train service.

Posted over 3 years ago by pato

It’s my smelly arse! I’ve got terrible wind!!

Posted over 3 years ago by Flange1971

They are refurbishing the station, and the toilets being redone was the main part of the advertising for it all, I suspect its still the toilets, it used to be worse though, the new ticket barriers don’t help (whole new topic there) when it does smell though. You are not alone!!

Posted over 3 years ago by DangerousDave

Yeah tell me about those new ticket barriers. They are fucking rubbish. Bad enough that the train can’t get you to the station on time but now they make you queue up just to make sure you’ve paid for the pleasure. I may be repeating myself here but it’s tantamount to going on a date with John Leslie and then being expected to pay for dinner. And the barriers don’t even work. I have to take my Oyster out of its wallet to make sure the barrier reads it OK. Every morning folk get stuck at the barrier because the machine can’t read their Oyster thereby holding up the queue longer. It’s ba’s I tell you. And you just know that when the toilets are redone (how come they could get the barriers in quick sharp but it’s taking ages to refurb the toilets?) you know they are going to cost 20p per pee whereas they used to be free (and how many nights was that very welcome after a few pints in a warm pub?) God I hate Blackfriars.

a rant

Posted over 3 years ago by theassassinprince

it’s probably the same smell that’s travelled up the tunnels, mutating as it goes, which you can find on a regular basis at Shepherds Bush central line station.

Posted over 3 years ago by JoPlum

You should run for mayor, assassinprince.

Free bogs and no train barriers would be a winning ticket!

Posted over 3 years ago by purpaboo

It is truly truly FOUL! I think it is the combination of drains and people not observing that whole “don’t flush train loos at the station whilst in the tube station” rule.

And the barriers are tripe too, if you are old skool and use paper tickets they don’t open at the same pace as normal ticket barriers if you know what I mean. This makes you look like a plum as you try and walk therough just a beat too fast

My main bug bear is that they have trains every 20 mins during the day until 6.05pm then it is every half hour, is it me or isn’t that just a bit stupid? Ah it’s rush hour now, lets make them less frequent. Brilliant idea!

In short Blackfriars – a bit poor but the only station that gets me to Nunhead after a certain hour.

Posted over 3 years ago by Bezmina

Yeah Blackfriars is a bit of a rubbish station but the trains there go to good places and it always used to be a bit more civilised what with the free toilets and lack of barriers, it was like a throwback to a more pleasant and trusting time. But now it’s just a smelly dump with rubbish ticket barriers. Purpaboo, I’d love to run for mayor but I doubt I’d even win the LBL nomination let alone the city vote.

Posted over 3 years ago by theassassinprince

You can have my vote, AP.

Posted over 3 years ago by gavmeister

Weasels!

Posted over 3 years ago by MokAsh

We have a bandwagon, time to start a new thread perhaps.

Posted over 3 years ago by theassassinprince

Blackfriars does smell appalling, but I’ve always have a soft spot for it because I like to pretend I’m in a gritty film noir from the 1970s when I walk through the tunnels that have the cast-ironmongery keeping the roof up outside. I try to look shifty and pull my collar up.

Piccadilly Circus (Piccadilly Line, Westbound, under the sooty balloon at the end of the platform that’s dangled there for at least 12 years for no reason and without shrinking) smells as if it’s where all the tube mice come to die in a huge, congealling, damp, rotting mound behind one of those doors marked ‘Danger of Death! Do not Enter’.

Posted over 3 years ago by ProperCharlie

I think it’s the common people.

Posted over 3 years ago by part-timer

Well if you will use those dreadfule peasant-wagons with the lowly proles what do you expect part-timer?

Posted over 3 years ago by Morals