But commuters and visitors whiling away time on the station’s increasingly-busy concourses and platforms may take some amount of comfort from the news that their all-too-familiar surroundings will soon become a bit less gloomy.
A new roof is to be built at the station to brighten it up in time for the arrival of the World Cycling Championships next September.
The new transparent roof will replace the dark and tired wooden one that currently sits above the main southern concourse.
Giving what is one of the country’s busiest stations and the gateway to Yorkshire for tens of thousands of visitors a much-needed facelift is, just like many of the region’s trains, long overdue.