“you did see it before right?”

Yes I did - I was perfectly happy. Even before I moved here I used to deliberately change at honor oak because it was the most pleasant on the line to sit for a while. The wooded area behind the station and the bird song by made you feel like you weren’t in an urban environment for a while, that you were connected to and surrounded by green space.

Sure the platform need improving but what they have done has degraded the station in important ways.

Not everyone likes large imposing barbed fences even if there are neatly painted seats next to them.