IanD
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Coombe Junction Halt after about 11am.
Carstairs gives me the creeps and must be the most dire place in Scotland.
Moreton, Dorset, is in the middle of a wood alongside a quiet road. There are a couple of houses adjacent but that's it.
Not really, you're in the middle of an urban area on a main road, and there's a big Morrisons literally round the corner :P
Moreton, Dorset, is in the middle of a wood alongside a quiet road. There are a couple of houses adjacent but that's it.
Not really, you're in the middle of an urban area on a main road, and there's a big Morrisons literally round the corner :P
Chapel en le Frith. Overslept on a train from Blackpool and Buxton and jumped off there on a Saturday night, fair distance from the town itself and felt very dark - plus there was about a 90 minute wait for the next train back to Manchester - had to get a friend to come and rescue me.
Can't say any of the stations on that line are particularly rural any more - Kempston Hardwick is probably the furthest from civilisation and that has a fairly well-used road crossing.Most rural stations on the Bedford to Bletchley line.
That you could see...I was at Pontefract Baghill in Dec complete with fog. Only me around.
Very atmospheric. Just the pitch black of the mountain in front of you and the stars above. Might just see the light from a car along the main road. Or look back and see the staggered lines of platform lights receding into the darkness. Not a sound except the wind in your ears, until you make out a faint rumbling of the train in the distance emerging from Blea Moor tunnel.
A slight tangent, but which station in Great Britain is furthest away geographically from any other station? I mean absolute distance here, rather than journey by rail/road? The stations don't have to have services to one another (eg Lockerbie's nearest station is Dumfries)
Penrith? It's about 20 miles or so from both Windermere and Carlisle.
Penrith? It's about 20 miles or so from both Windermere and Carlisle.
Absolutely You can just see the line disappearing into what appears to be thin air at the start of the viaduct. Despite the loneliness, the little waiting room on the northbound platform is rather a cosy place to wait for a train at night though.
But only about 5 miles from Langwathby (it seems like a fairly decent walk from overhead views).
Not with the restaurant across the trackCorrour.