Poole was the base for my 2007 station collecting holiday, again with Ben Harris and our bicycles. After the previous beautiful day on the Isle of Purbeck visiting Swanage and Corfe Castle, the day we visited Poole station was grey and wet.
The station is modern, built in 1988, but new developments will soon see it demolished and replaced by something else. The station building seen from the forecourt:
The entrance of the station building:
The station building gives onto platform 1 for trains to London Waterloo:
The station platforms are curved. Looking north along platform 1, with the station building hidden behind the hoardings on the right:
From the other end of platform 1, looking south at the station building and the footbridge:
From the footbridge, the view north:
Looking south from the footbridge:
Platform 2, for trains onwards to Wareham and Weymouth, seen from platform 1:
At the north end of the station is a signalbox:
Some sidings just to the east of the station:
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