Comments on: A Night On Liverpool St Station

By: Mike Staniland

Mike Staniland — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 05:10:22 +0000

I can remember arriving by steam train often into Liverpool Street from Chelmsford as a young boy having watched with excitement out of the carriage windows the various steam engines we passed at Stratford and other locations on the way .

Upon entering slowly into Liverpool Street through the black dark approach tunnels the smells of steam and smoke hardly any visibility and noise all around were to me out of this World , then walking up to the steam engine at the platform end before the barrier with my father and other passengers to personally thank the engine driver and fireman both very sweaty looking and blackened by coal dust .

The various black sided footbridge walkways criss crossing over the concourse below I remember as well as a glass window barber’s shop below down some stairs leading to the toilets and the white tiled tunnel sides.

But above all our arrival by steam into Liverpool Street for our day in London I will always remember as if it were a few years ago – what memories these comments have stirred .

By: Rio Tharmus

Rio Tharmus — Tue, 15 May 2018 06:58:21 +0000

For myself Liverpool Street too is the Gateway from the East into London.Having spent many a time as a child in the 70s with family or shopping or en route to Carnaby St and the West end with my sister.Then came the 80s..I was a teenager coming ”up” London for gigs..missing the last train just after midnight and having to wait for the good ol’ Milk train to come in from East Anglia (and going out again with mail and night shift workers)…or getting on a late train..”tired and emotional” after a particular gig at the 100 club and waking up 100 miles from home, in Norwich and having to spend the night outside Colemans mustard factory (another British icon soon to move).
Then the stations refurb to the uninspiring glass box that it is today..now I commute daily and try to cut it out of my journey by utilising Stratford,tube,bus and DLR but still memories of the bad ol days linger on…
Rio Tharmus

By: victoria

victoria — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 03:57:02 +0000

I commutated into Liverpool st from 1980 – 2010 and this bought back so many memories -thank you -including having a cheeky one in the apples and pears under the old staircase and waiting for the milk train home after a serious night out !

By: Phil Maxwell

Phil Maxwell — Sun, 08 May 2016 17:10:20 +0000

You’ve captured the station as it was – perfectly.

By: John Linquist

John Linquist — Fri, 06 May 2016 00:57:41 +0000

When I first came to England (many years ago) I had a maintenance job which often finished after the last train. I used to fill in the time walking around the streets. In the early hours they were more or less deserted and this allowed me to look at the more interesting buildings from novel view points such as the middle of what would be a busy road. On rainy nights I would curl up and go to sleep in a corner of Liverpool St station and wait for the first train .
Thank you for the article.

By: essexcockney

essexcockney — Wed, 04 May 2016 17:07:05 +0000

coming from Bethnal green I and my mates used to go to Liverpool street station looking for girls this was late 1960s 1970s we used to run around that place for hours getting up to mischief and as I said trying chat up girls which seemed to be the main pastime of young men them days :-).when my mum was young she used to go there with her girl friends ..we used to love running along the trellis work bridges ? walkways ,I haven t been there since it was modernised but looking at photos they have ruined it with the modern design crap they have ruined London with.
all the best
essexcockney

By: Vivian Campbell

Vivian Campbell — Wed, 04 May 2016 11:24:47 +0000

This is just how I remember Liverpool Street station. I lived in Bishopsgate from the age of 3 till I was 20. I could look out of the window on the stairs going up to my bedroom and remember seeing the steam trains. I also could climb out of this window to sit on a flat roof and sunbathe. I would come in not so much tanned but covered in soot. My friend and I would go to the station and go in the photo booth nearly every week to have our photos done. I also had a blind date at the station from a pen pal who was in Ganges. He looked so smart in his navy uniform but unfortunately he was not the one for me. There also used to be a recording booth were you could go and record yourself singing. My friend still has the recording. When I visited a few years ago I did not recognise the place. I will always remember it how it used to be.

By: Beryl Happe

Beryl Happe — Tue, 03 May 2016 18:20:50 +0000

Liverpool street was the closest ‘mainline’ station to where we lived in the 40’s and 50’s. We lived in Bethnal Green, very close to Bethnal Green station in fact. We would get on a train at BG and go the one stop to Liverpool street, and the world was our oyster, well it seemed like the world to me at my tender age. In reality it meant one thing -Southend-. It was a real treat to go there for a day out. When I started courting,-now there’s an old fashioned word-, we went to Southend for the day for the princely sum of 4shillings and threepence return. now 22pence. We had a fabulous day eating fish & chips, candy floss and riding on every ride in the Kursaal. The whole day cost my boyfriend (now my husband of 57 years), £1.50p. I love Liverpool Street.

By: pauline taylor

pauline taylor — Tue, 03 May 2016 18:02:03 +0000

I remember Liverpool Street in the days of steam trains and walking up the platform on arrival to see which wonderful steam engine had been responsible for our arrival in the great metropolis, never ever did I find it a frightening place but then I had a lovely grandfather who was a railwayman so perhaps that had something to do with it. Despite its much cleaner and brighter appearance now I miss the old days, it was much more exciting then!!

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 03 May 2016 16:00:58 +0000

Love this one and I was pleased you’ve solved a mystery with me with one of your then and now photos. I did wonder what became of the taxi ramp to the side of the station next to Broad st station. It’s now an impressive enterance and public square. I thought it was an original feature but it appears to be new.