(Light-hearted). Things you might expect to see at railway locations but don't

[Dai Corner]

For example, there is no licensed snooker club at Potters Bar station.

 

[Dr Hoo]

Sometimes the situation at Hope (Derbyshire) seems pretty hopeless.

I also haven't seen any beer brewed specially for people called Edmund or Edward at Edale.

Nor any Bams trying to wade through the River Derwent at Bamford.

Nor any elderly Hathers at Hathersage.

Nor any Grindles waiting to paddle across the River Derwent further downstream at Grindleford.

 

[Gloster]

There isn’t an area of enclosed water at Lake.

 

[_toommm_]

There aren’t many people proficient in navigation at Guide Bridge.

There isn’t many fields of horticulture at Flowery Field.

There isn’t an omnipotent person with a common English name at Godley.

There aren’t many wide behinds at Broadbottom.

 

[The exile]

And Bath Spa offers nothing more than a few washbasins.

 

[Gloster]

No musical instruments at Bugle, no religion personages at Dean, no cloth from sheep at Wool and no influence at Sway.

 

[Bletchleyite]

No park at Aughton Park (though there once was).

No longer a crystal palace at Crystal Palace.

 

[xotGD]

You don't get A Room With a View at Bradford (E.M.) Forster Square.

Or a counter-cyclical fiscal stimulous at Milton Keynes. And good luck trying to find a Paradise Lost.

 

[pitdiver]

i have been looking for two years for the brook at Shirebrook

 

[xotGD]

i have been looking for two years for the brook at Shirebrook

Did you find the horse though?

 

[Western 52]

Whilst there's a port in Newport it's not a new one!

 

[TJM]

Never seen many berries at Berrylands!

 

[Western 52]

I've never seen swans on the sea in Swansea, but not impossible of course.

 

[py_megapixel]

The houses around Stonehouse station are mostly made from brick.

The closest you'll get to a bookshop at Reading is probably WHSmith on the station.

Shippea Hill is in a flat plain.

There aren’t many people proficient in navigation at Guide Bridge.

Nor any large marine mammals at Whaley Bridge.

Whilst there's a port in Newport it's not a new one!

The same applies to the mills in New Mills.

 

[duncanp]

There isn't exactly a lot of shipping at Dudley Port.

Nor is there a nunnery at Seven Sisters

and the pub at Berney Arms closed down in 2015.

 

[MattRat]

You can't get a lime at Lime Street.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Never seen any beatified insects at St Bees

 

[Ken H]

no sand at Grange over Sands!!! Just mud

 

[duncanp]

No chance of any fruit picking at

Strawberry Hill, Cherry Tree or Appleby

 

[Loppylugs]

No piggy bits at Swineshead, and seeing as it's meant to be lighthearted we won't mention Maidenhead.

 

[Western 52]

No angry keys in Cross Keys.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

No cursed pork products at Hexham

 

[Dai Corner]

There is no royally appointed men's outfitters at Kingswear, nor was the first sound-equipped cinema at Torquay.

 

[Western 52]

No romans at Roman Bridge.

 

[HarryF]

No angry gates at Cross Gates

 

[duncanp]

Forget going for a swim at Welshpool

and you can't get anything to eat at Sugar Loaf

 

[Gloster]

Nobody trying to dispose of agricultural land at Sellafield.

 

[Western 52]

No grove of birch trees at Birchgrove.

 

[_toommm_]

There isn’t a green space of well-built people at Burley Park.

There aren’t people telling four-legged animals to go forward at Horsforth.

You won’t find a 4x2 piece of wood at Pannal.

You won’t find a galactic stream at Starbeck.

Nor will there be lots of farm animals at Cattal.

You can’t use a weighted tool on 1,000KG at Hammerton.

 

[Western 52]

No heaps of cinders at Mountain Ash.