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18 November 2013, 08:38 AM
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Victoria by about 500m easily!
Come out of the main exit, turn left walk up the slope past Urbis on your right, at the top turn right and walk down Corporation St, Printworks on your left. If you want the main shopping area - just keep walking then your next lights is Market St.
There is about 8 streets that run E/W and they are all full of shops.
Also a few good ones down the other side of Deansgate behind RBS HQ (Spinningfields).
Come out of the main exit, turn left walk up the slope past Urbis on your right, at the top turn right and walk down Corporation St, Printworks on your left. If you want the main shopping area - just keep walking then your next lights is Market St.
There is about 8 streets that run E/W and they are all full of shops.
Also a few good ones down the other side of Deansgate behind RBS HQ (Spinningfields).
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All the Christmas market stuff is clustered around there too.
Piccadilly is out in skid row.
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I've done York-Manchester roundtrip a few times with Chester to Manchester as plan 1.
I thought if you were travelling from York, Victoria station came first. I also thought that it was Piccadilly that had good shops and Burger King etc., and Victoria was just a shed with one train track, a freezing waiting room and a newspaper stall outside. I may be remembering wrong, and may be it's the Piccalilly which is a shed of a station.
It certainly wasn't in 1940's for sure, nor was I having a Goodnight Sweetheart moment.
Easy journey, really. Well, one of the York-Manchester journeys in 2010 wasn't an easy one from me when I received a news on train that one of the people we knew in North Wales had done suicide. All you want is a pair of wings to magically grow on your back to fly back asap than chugging on a train with hopping journeys.
Anyway, happy shopping, whichever station you get off at.
I thought if you were travelling from York, Victoria station came first. I also thought that it was Piccadilly that had good shops and Burger King etc., and Victoria was just a shed with one train track, a freezing waiting room and a newspaper stall outside. I may be remembering wrong, and may be it's the Piccalilly which is a shed of a station.
It certainly wasn't in 1940's for sure, nor was I having a Goodnight Sweetheart moment. Easy journey, really. Well, one of the York-Manchester journeys in 2010 wasn't an easy one from me when I received a news on train that one of the people we knew in North Wales had done suicide. All you want is a pair of wings to magically grow on your back to fly back asap than chugging on a train with hopping journeys.
Anyway, happy shopping, whichever station you get off at.
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I've done York-Manchester roundtrip a few times with Chester to Manchester as plan 1.
I thought if you were travelling from York, Victoria station came first. I also thought that it was Piccadilly that had good shops and Burger King etc., and Victoria was just a shed with one train track, a freezing waiting room and a newspaper stall outside. I may be remembering wrong, and may be it's the Piccalilly which is a shed of a station. It certainly wasn't in 1940's for sure, nor was I having a Goodnight Sweetheart moment.
Easy journey, really. Well, one of the York-Manchester journeys in 2010 wasn't an easy one from me when I received a news on train that one of the people we knew in North Wales had done suicide. All you want is a pair of wings to magically grow on your back to fly back asap than chugging on a train with hopping journeys.
Anyway, happy shopping, whichever station you get off at.
I thought if you were travelling from York, Victoria station came first. I also thought that it was Piccadilly that had good shops and Burger King etc., and Victoria was just a shed with one train track, a freezing waiting room and a newspaper stall outside. I may be remembering wrong, and may be it's the Piccalilly which is a shed of a station.
It certainly wasn't in 1940's for sure, nor was I having a Goodnight Sweetheart moment. Easy journey, really. Well, one of the York-Manchester journeys in 2010 wasn't an easy one from me when I received a news on train that one of the people we knew in North Wales had done suicide. All you want is a pair of wings to magically grow on your back to fly back asap than chugging on a train with hopping journeys.
Anyway, happy shopping, whichever station you get off at.
Piccadilly was modernised a few years ago now and is an excellent station with eateries etc. but Victoria is nearer the shopping centre. However you are right in that Victoria is a shed LOL! It is however in the process of being modernised thank God!
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Piccadilly was modernised a few years ago now and is an excellent station with eateries etc. but Victoria is nearer the shopping centre. However you are right in that Victoria is a shed LOL! It is however in the process of being modernised thank God!
Getting on a train at Piccadilly is like getting a flight at the airport.
Very well organised, and quite strict. Unlike our rural Wales, they won't let you on any train going, if you have an off-peak or a specific time cheapo ticket. They also don't let you wander about like some hopeless at the platform until your train is ready on the tracks. They keep you wait outside their walkways. I had a bit of a culture shock as I'm used to our informal rural Wales stations and just the Chester shed station with some signs of civilisation, f1. 
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