Southampton Fucking Train Station

Some of you may be familiar with Southampton Central train station. It's a convenient place to get off the train if you're going to Southampton, unlike Southampton Airport Parkway, which is actually in Eastleigh, not Southampton. As if that's not confusing enough, the central station has two sides, neither is an obvious 'front'. I've had arguments with many people over which is the 'front entrance' and which is the 'back entrance'. I think of the front as being the side facing town, the Toys R'Us side, but others disagree.

Another good way of determining which side of the station to enter or exit is to go by platform number. Thing is, you can't figure out where the platforms are unless you're inside the station, which means paying for a ticket. Fat lot of good that does you if you're supposed to be picking someone up.

National Rail have actually been really helpful and provided a station plan for the station. It's a Javascript thing that shows all sorts of stuff, such as where the cash machine is, and where the disabled entrances and shops are. It even has little photos of everything. It has just one problem... it's upside down.

Yes, that's right - on this map, unlike every other map in the known universe, north is down and south is up. It's even more confusing because there's a small building to the north side which is the HQ of the transport police, but it's not obvious. It's incorrectly marked on the map as 'Southampton Police Station'... WHICH IS SOUTH OF THE FUCKING STATION.

Why the hell does Southampton central station try to be as difficult as possible?! There. Rant over.