Preston — Attraction in Preston

Preston railway station is a mainline station with direct connections to many parts of the UK including London, Edinburgh, York, Glasgow and Manchester.

I use the station on average 2 to 3 times a week for both business and leisure and most of the time have no problems at all.

Preston station is a historic station that has recently been remodelled to a good standard-previously the station as in a miserable state with leaks, peeling paint and disgusting toilets. The remodel has improved the station although due to the semi-exposed design of the station it can be cold during the winter months. There are facilities available however to escape the cold including a cafe, WH Smiths, Upper Crust with seating shared by the station bar.

The toilets for some reason still seem to suffer from issues like broken taps and they could be cleaner-there is no charge to use the toilets unlike some stations but they have recently been updated and still have problems so this needs to be sorted out.

The station is managed by Virgin Trains who do a great job just like they do with running an excellent service on the West Coast Mainline.

The ticket sales office has long opening hours form early morning to late evening and the staff there are friendly and professional with the exception of just 2 who need customer service training and fares/ticketing rules training!

There are fast ticket machines located in the ticket sales area which accept cash and cards-just be aware very long queues can occur at peak times-particularly between 06:45 and 08:00 on weekdays. Allow at least 20 mins at these times before your trains scheduled departure time.

The food and drink outlets accept the Bite card which is free to apply for and offers good discounts on food and drink including beer!

The bar is OK for a quick beer if delayed or have some time to spare between trains offering lagers, cider, wines, spirits and bottled beers but no real ales-the prices are quite expensive even if you use a Bite card so if you have at least 30 mins available would recommend The Old Vic pub just 3 mins walk from the station.

The Station pub is opposite the station side entrance if your time is more limited but would only recommend for lagers, ciders etc not real ales. Food recommendations would be to walk to the city centre.

The city centre is just 4 to 5 mins walk with the Fishergate Shopping Centre directly opposite the station.

There is no First Class lounge at Preston Station-hopefully, as Preston is a mainline key station, Virgin Trains will introduce one soon.

Taxis are available outside the station but I recommend pre-ordering Millers Taxis to avoid getting ripped of or waiting around.

There is a multi-storey car park and this is a great parking option at weekends and Bank Holidays even if not using the station and only visiting Preston city centre as you can part for £2 all day!

Overall while I often have no choice than to use Preston station, like many other folk, I usually enjoy the experience and with a few improvements the station could improve on the already...

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I doubt the neutrality of a lot of the authors of these reviews for this station. The station is generally clean but, in general, its offerings for the average passenger are nothing spectacular. You have to be particularly aware of possible platform changes at very short notice (I know, not so unusual in the UK)- a common change is from platform 4 to 5 or 6 for Birmingham and/or London-bound trains and the critical point is that it involves going up and down the steps of the foot bridge, not a big deal to the able-bodied (until you think about luggage) but I often wonder if the less able bodied have enough time to search out the lifts. The lighting in the food outlet on platform 4 is poor quality, as a lot of the time only 50% of the lights are operating (various occasions in June/July 2017), giving a rather dismal atmosphere when chewing on your sandwich. When asked why only half the lights were lit, a staff member gave the somewhat bizarre reply "it's...