Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations

It is the scene for our hopeful beginnings and our intended ends, and the timeless experiences of coming and going, meeting, greeting, and parting. It is an institution with its own rituals and priests, and a long-neglected aspect of Britain''s architecture. And yet so little do we look at the railway station. Simon Jenkins has traveled the length and breadth of Great Britain, from Waterloo to Wemyss Bay, Betws-y-Coed to Beverley, to select his hu