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[Ascot]

had a look at the nearest station thing powered by Multimap

Penns and Victoria strike to me first about Rail Stations...

Ref: Location: Distance:
1 Stechford 1.3 Miles
2 Lea Hall 1.8 Miles
3 Gravelly Hill 2.1 Miles
4 Penns 2.2 Miles
5 Erdington 2.3 Miles
6 Adderley Park 2.4 Miles
7 Chester Road 2.6 Miles
8 Victoria 2.6 Miles
9 Aston 2.8 Miles
10 Water Orton 2.9 Miles

 

[Z12XE]

Just had a look at this from where I live and its offered one nearly 13 miles away called Bulford, (there's no such station) strangely also offeres Cressing which is pretty much the same place!

 

[87015]

Penns and Victoria strike to me first about Rail Stations...

Penns is a closed station on Sutton Park line.
No ideas about Victoria, maybe it should be Vauxhall (Duddeston)??

 

[Mojo]

Interesting...
1 Clifton Down 1 Miles
2 Redland 1.6 Miles
3 Montpelier 1.7 Miles
4 Clifton Down 2 Miles
5 Filton Abbey Wood 2 Miles
6 Stapleton Road 2.3 Miles
7 Seamills 2.3 Miles
8 Sea Mills 2.4 Miles
9 Lawrence Hill 2.8 Miles
10 Patchway 2.8 Miles

No made up stations there, but Clifton Down appears twice and Sea Mills appears twice under a different name. Both interestingly have different mileages!

Looking at my old house, Quainton Road (now a 'museum' station) appears as 0.5 miles away - most certaintly isn't - and there's also Marstongate station - one I've never heard of!

 

[Max]

1 Cottingham 0.6 Miles
2 Hull 4 Miles
3 Wilmington 4.1 Miles
4 Beverley 4.4 Miles
5 Hessle 4.4 Miles
6 Ferriby 5.6 Miles
7 New Holland 5.7 Miles
8 Barrow Haven 5.8 Miles
9 Barton-on-Humber 6.4 Miles
10 Arram 7.2 Miles

This is interesting - Wilmington station closed in 1964 (There's a really interesting page on it here: http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/)! Meanwhile, Barrow Haven and New Holland are said to be closer to here than Barton, yet you have to drive through Barton to get to them :confused:

Are the distances actually by road or are they as the crow flies?

 

[87015]

- and there's also Marstongate station - one I've never heard of!

Hellfire! Ched-Aylesbury branch!

Obviously it still thinks its 1950 or something with all these long-closed shacks appearing
Stanbridgeford also appears, dreadful!

 

[Mojo]

Hellfire! Ched-Aylesbury branch!

Obviously it still thinks its 1950 or something with all these long-closed shacks appearing
Stanbridgeford also appears, dreadful!

Ah, the reason I never realised what it was, the station was actually 'Marston Gate!'

 

[Jordy]

Interesting...

1  	Grimsby Town
	0.5 Miles
2 	Grimsby Docks
	1.2 Miles
3 	Great Coates
	1.6 Miles
4 	New Clee
	1.8 Miles
5 	Cleethorpes
	2.9 Miles
6 	Stallingborough
	3.8 Miles
7 	Habrough
	7.6 Miles
8 	Ulceby
	9.2 Miles
9 	Killingholme
	9.6 Miles
10 	Thornton Abbey
	10.9 Miles

Killingholme no longer exists, and hasn't for some time!

 

[David]

1  Scunthorpe  0.8 Miles 
2  Scunthorpe and Frodingham  1 Miles 
3  Althorpe  3.4 Miles 
4  Crowle  6.7 Miles 
5  Brigg  7.6 Miles 
6  Kirton Lindsey  8.7 Miles 
7  Medge Hall  8.8 Miles 
8  Brough  9.5 Miles 
9  Broomfleet  9.9 Miles 
10  Barnetby  10.1 Miles

Scunthorpe and Frodingham station does not exist (and has never done so), as it is in the middle of a housing estate away from the railway line.

Medge Hall is just a signal box....

 

[Jordy]

Scunthorpe and Frodingham station does not exist (and has never done so), as it is in the middle of a housing estate away from the railway line.

Although that map location is definately wrong, maybe its thinking of the small holt for the Steelworks tours?!

 

[Max]

Although that map location is definately wrong, maybe its thinking of the small holt for the Steelworks tours?!

What I don't understand is how they find stations for their database. Surely it's not easy to get information on a station that closed 50 years ago, or one that apparently barely exists (the steelworks tour one!).

 

[Tom]

1  Bournemouth          1.3 Miles
2  Pokesdown            1.5 Miles
3  Christchurch         3.0 Miles
4  Branksome            3.1 Miles
5  Parkstone (Dorset)   4.4 Miles
6  West Moors           5.5 Miles
7  Hinton Admiral       5.9 Miles
8  Poole                6.0 Miles
9  Hamworthy            7.4 Miles
10 New Milton           8.6 Miles

West Moors is the odd one out here.

 

[Mintona]

Symond Yat 4.3 Miles
Symond's Gate 4.3 Miles
Symonds Yat 4.3 Miles
Fawley 4.4 Miles
Grange Court 9 Miles
Grange Court Junction 9 Miles
Tram Inn 10.3 Miles
Tram Inn 10.5 Miles
Barbers Bridge 10.9 Miles
Hereford 11.9 Miles


Great..so only Hereford is actually a station, and is over 16 miles away...

 

[RJ]

There would have been more if the Crystal Palace High Level line was still open

1  Forest Hill       0.8 Miles 
2  West Dulwich      0.9 Miles 
3  North Dulwich       1 Miles 
4  East Dulwich      1.2 Miles 
5  Honor Oak Park    1.2 Miles 
6  Herne Hill        1.3 Miles 
7  Sydenham          1.4 Miles 
8  Gipsy Hill        1.5 Miles 
9  Tulse Hill        1.5 Miles 
10 Herne Hill        1.5 Miles

 

[jd]

I feel left out . All the stations for my postcode are real

My dad's house comes up with
Ref: Location: Distance:
1 Barnham 1.3 Miles
2 Barnham 1.7 Miles
3 Bognor Regis 3.3 Miles
4 Ford 4 Miles
5 Ford 4 Miles
6 Chichester 5 Miles
7 Arundel 5.4 Miles
8 Littlehampton 5.6 Miles
9 Fishbourne 6.4 Miles
10 Amberley 7 Miles

 

[Mojo]

There would have been more if the Crystal Palace High Level line was still open

It seems the best way for a station to get on this list is if it's closed

 

[Z12XE]

Strangely though none of the former stations on the closed section of line near me are listed

 

[Nick W]

1 Felixstowe
0.3 Miles
2 Trimley
1.7 Miles
3 Harwich Town
3.2 Miles
4 Dovercourt
3.5 Miles
5 Harwich International
4.3 Miles
6 Orwell
5.8 Miles
7 Wrabness
8 Miles
8 Walton-on-Naze
8.9 Miles
9 Woodbridge
8.9 Miles
10 Derby Road
9.5 Miles

Must have old data.

 

[voyagerdude220]

I typed in a postcode in Burnham-On-Sea (Somerset), and came up with:

Ref: Location: Distance:
1 Highbridge & Burnham 2.2 Miles
2 Bason Bridge 3.3 Miles
3 Weston-super-Mare 6.7 Miles
4 Weston Milton 7.3 Miles
5 Bridgwater 7.7 Miles
6 Worle 8.5 Miles
7 Shapwick 8.9 Miles
8 Lodge Hill 11.2 Miles
9 Yatton 12.2 Miles
10 Penarth 15.1 Miles It might exist, but i don't fancy swimming across the sea at Burnham with my suitcase, just to get on a train!

 

[Ascot]

Ref: Location: Distance:
1 Wickford 0.2 Miles
2 Battlesbridge 2.2 Miles
3 Pitsea 3.6 Miles
4 Basildon 3.7 Miles
5 Woodham Ferris 3.7 Miles
6 Rayleigh 3.8 Miles
7 Woodham Ferrers 4.5 Miles
8 Billericay 4.6 Miles
9 Benfleet 5 Miles
10 Laindon 5.1 Miles

2 Woodham Ferris, quite normal though the rest down the South East side of things

 

[Death]

Hail All!
Seems that it can sometimes be right - Almost!... :toothy10:

1 	Farnborough (Main)	 1.7 Miles
2 	Blackwater		 1.7 Miles
3 	Frimley			 1.9 Miles
4 	Farnborough North	 2.1 Miles
5 	Fleet			 2.2 Miles
6 	Camberley		 2.7 Miles
7 	North Camp		 3.4 Miles
8 	Ash Vale		 3.9 Miles
9 	Aldershot		 4.5 Miles
[b]10	London Necropolis	45.5 Miles[/b]
	([i]This was bombed flat by the Germans in WWII, and never rebuilt.[/i])

O.K, that last one is blatantly me just having a joke, but I wonder if the Necropolis station exists on that station finder?...

Hmmm...I'll have to have a hunt, methinks!
>> Death <<

Addendum: Nope...Necropolis isn't listed in there under LO* or NE*!
Given the number of other closed/non-existant stations listed there though, I'm highly surprised that this is the case! :eek:

 

[Coxster]

The Necropolis station wouldn't be 45 miles from us, Death. Waterloo is only 33 You'd have been more believeable if you put Brookwood Necropolis in there

 

[Death]

Hail Coxster!

The Necropolis station wouldn't be 45 miles from us, Death. Waterloo is only 33
You'd have been more believeable if you put Brookwood Necropolis in there

Hmmm...Come to think of it, I do seem to recall the MP between Farnborough Main and the bridge over the A331 reading 33 3/4 or something like that!
That'll teach me to make a post like that after being up all night clubbing...Or at least I'll (Hopefully) think to check my road atlas first in future!

Talking of the Necropolis station though: I arrived at Waterloo about half an hour before my train was due to depart this morning, and decided to kill time (No pun intended! ) looking for it. Although the actual building itself was lost in the last War, the arch at the front still survives to this day at 121 Westminster Bridge Rd, and looks like this. I have a feeling that the building above the arch may be a reconstruction of any original one, but don't take my word for it; It's a guess.

And on the subject of "our" end of the Necropolis Network at Brookwood, I've noticed a very short (About 2m long) section of track with wooden sleepers right behind the plat. 2 building, surrounded by a fence. Is this going to form a heritage thingymabob for the original Necropolis siding, or is it just a random artifact that Southern Region left lying about?

Farewell...
>> Death <<

 

[Coxster]

And on the subject of "our" end of the Necropolis Network at Brookwood, I've noticed a very short (About 2m long) section of track with wooden sleepers right behind the plat. 2 building, surrounded by a fence. Is this going to form a heritage thingymabob for the original Necropolis siding, or is it just a random artifact that Southern Region left lying about?

Not sure about that bit of track, but our school (Cove, sure you know it ) went down to Brookwood cemetery once and were given a couple of hours to look around in groups. Me and my mates went wondering about the place and ended up in the Asian(?) section of the cemetary which is right next to the railway. After trying to find our way back to where we started (took ages) we came across a bit of a clearing (no rails/sleepers left) which I'm guessing may have been part of the branch. The cemetary is quite big (about 500 acres of 2000 is used I think) and isn't half eerie when you don't know where you are in the rain! There is certainly 235,000 to 240,000 graves on the site.

This is the South station, which was one of a few on the "death branch".

 

[gingerheid]

That's hilarious.

1 Barnwell
2 Quy
3 Cambridge
4 Waterbeach
5 Shelford
6 Lords Bridge
7 Whittlesford
8 Foxton
9 Dullingham
10 Shepreth

On a serious note, there is something behind this somewhere that, presented the right way, would be a really useful resource for people interested in railway history.

Edit...

1 Wemyss Bay
2 Largs
3 Millport
4 Fairlie
5 Hunterston
6 Inverkip
7 West Kilbride
8 Glengarnock
9 Dalry
10 Rothesay

Most of those are real stations (Hunterston is a coal terminal - I don't think it's ever had a station).

But Millport and Rothesay??? They are islands. They never had trains in their lives!

 

[plikma]

I know this sounds stupid but ive been searching all over Multimap and can't find what you're talking about. where is it?

 

[Ascot]

I know this sounds stupid but ive been searching all over Multimap and can't find what you're talking about. where is it?

www.thetrainline.co.uk

 

[Death]

Hail All!

Not sure about that bit of track, but our school (Cove, sure you know it ) went down to Brookwood cemetery once and were given a couple of hours to look around in groups. Me and my mates went wondering about the place and ended up in the Asian(?) section of the cemetary which is right next to the railway. After trying to find our way back to where we started (took ages) we came across a bit of a clearing (no rails/sleepers left) which I'm guessing may have been part of the branch.

Hmmm...I've noticed a clear "plateau" that runs parallel to the down local from Brookwood plat. 2 building towards Woking...Could this have been the decent from the main line to the cemetary branch?

I'll try and wander down there with a camera at some point, but as my "camera" is actually a camera phone, it'll be photos from outside the cemetary only. I always turn my phone off before entering such peaceful places ye see...

The cemetary is quite big (about 500 acres of 2000 is used I think) and isn't half eerie when you don't know where you are in the rain! There is certainly 235,000 to 240,000 graves on the site.

That's very good going when ye consider that most who died in the Great Plagues and Fires of London are buried there...Either they've been double/triple/quad-layering memorials all over the place, or they're only keeping peoples places of rest sacred for the 100 years post mortem and removing them after. hock:

If there's 1,500 acres of spare space going though, it could be a very good idea to re-lay the Brookwood Cemetary branch and reopen London Necopolis station!

I have to add that I've been there at night before now, and I've found it neither eerie, frightening or even uncomfortable...It has to be said that - Day or night - I always feel safe and at peace in that beautiful place... 8)

This [Image] is the South station, which was one of a few on the "death branch".

Awww...They named the branch after me? 8)
I'm truly honoured...Especially given that it was the Necropolis branch after all, and thus very appropriate given my username!

Farewell...
>> Death <<

 

[Julian G]

1 Parsons Green 0.2 Miles
2 West Brompton 0.3 Miles
3 West Kensington 0.4 Miles
4 Fulham Broadway 0.5 Miles
5 Earls Court 0.5 Miles
6 Barons Court 0.6 Miles
7 Parsons Green 0.7 Miles
8 Kensington Olympia 0.8 Miles
9 Ken Olympia 0.9 Miles
10 Gloucester Rd 1 Miles
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I'm sorry Trainline but Parsons Green doesn't look like 0.2miles to me

 

[nickmanl]

Mine provided only the two closed railway stations, Chiltern Green and Standbridgeford. Really surprised it didn't give me Luton Bute Street, Dunstable Town and Dunstable North, considering they were on the same railway line as Standbridgeford and closed at the same time! No logic at all to this thing!

I then entered my uni postcode hoping the old Waterloo Necropolis would come up (considering its literally just around the corner) but no luck!

That's very good going when ye consider that most who died in the Great Plagues and Fires of London are buried there...Either they've been double/triple/quad-layering memorials all over the place, or they're only keeping peoples places of rest sacred for the 100 years post mortem and removing them after.

Away from all thing trains - I always thought the dead from the plague were buried at Blackheath, hence the name from the 'black death?'