Funny, I really rather like Liverpool Street Station; perhaps because I use it more for underground and waiting for buses outside than for mainline trains.

There is quite an extraordinary vista as one descends the steps/escalator from Bishopsgate during rush hour - people en masse; yet strangely (until you join them!) it doesn't seem too overcrowded or stifling - perhaps because of the very airy conversion job done several years ago from the old station. There are restaurants and bars in the upper area - not all of them unduly expensive - and the usual array of fast food outlets in the lower concourse. But only just outside the station there is a small but useful shopping centre - and landscaped areas among the big business boys towards Moorgate.

Cross the road (Bishopsgate) and you are into Petticoat Lane
market - always bustling.

Trains - forget 'em; just stay around the station