Your local train station

[farmerbarleymow]

Very 'quaint', isn't it

It is, but it is as a country station should be like really. Sadly it is a rarity.

 

[The Boy]

I suppose this would be mine:





There's also a tram line/stop here now. I don't really use it, but it's the closest to me and I have gotten the train there to get to the out-of-town retail park that isn't actually out of town - town planning at its best. Nowadays I just cycle, unless I'll need to carry something heavy home - in those situation I convince the other half to go.

 

[marty21]

Welcome to Clapton ! The station is about a 5 minute walk from the flat.

 

[marty21]

 

[editor]

Note 'NUTA' graffiti.



Brixton

 

[tufty79]

Have to enter this circle of hell twice a day:

that's my locallest station


had this as my nearest a few years back, mind..

 

[wiskey]

Minimalist!

Who needs toilets, or coffee shops, or waiting rooms... Or even benches!

Or ticket machines

It does sometimes have trains. Occasionally.

ETA: looking at that it clearly used to be busier, the two outside lines are now defunct, the inside lines mostly have high speed non stopping trains, steam trains or coal wagons.

It even used to have benches! And maybe a waiting room at the top of the stairs.

 

[Fez909]

that's my locallest station


had this as my nearest a few years back, mind..

You're almost as close to Burley Park as you are to Leeds you know? I think there's not much in it.

 

[wiskey]

I usually travel from here though

 

[ddraig]

think this is my closest one

but mostly use this one, which has a platform zero

 

[farmerbarleymow]

We need a picture of the sign for platform zero.

 

[machine cat]

that's my locallest station

Is it just me or didn't Leeds have a Platform 'W' at some point?

 

[ddraig]

We need a picture of the sign for platform zero.

there is even a song about it

 

[tufty79]

You're almost as close to Burley Park as you are to Leeds you know? I think there's not much in it.

in that case, i'm adopting burley park as my local

Is it just me or didn't Leeds have a Platform 'W' at some point?

yes

 

[Fez909]

We need a picture of the sign for platform zero.

Kings Cross has a platform zero.

 

[moochedit]

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

I'm in between

and

 

[T & P]

Tulse Hill station is not particularly photogenic, but I've always thought the mouth of Knight's Hill Tunnel, just outside the station, is very pleasing to the eye

 

[Zack Murray]

welcome to america! this is barely even a train station

but it is my only commuter rail until i get into Boston proper, then the subway (tube haha) can take me anywhere

 

[wiskey]

It's got more going for it than my local one! Look it's even got a dot matrix sign to tell you stuff!!

And benches!

And a bin...

 

[Roadkill]

The above pic must be a few years old, since for the last few years Philip Larkin has been running for his train outside the door of the Royal Station Hotel:

It's also the bus station:

 

[Supine]

My closest at the moment:

 

[Roadkill]

Fifty years ago this would have been my local station - Botanic Gardens:

IIRC it was originally called Cemetery Gates, since it was near to the old Western Cemetery, but was renamed before World War I. Keats and Yeates are on your side, and all that.

Long gone now. A bakery sits on the site of the engine shed opposite - emitting nicer fumes than steam engines, it must be said - and there's a pub on the site of the station itself.

 

[maomao]

I suppose this would be mine:

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There's also a tram line/stop here now. I don't really use it, but it's the closest to me and I have gotten the train there to get to the out-of-town retail park that isn't actually out of town - town planning at its best. Nowadays I just cycle, unless I'll need to carry something heavy home - in those situation I convince the other half to go.

You live near my mum then. Glad to hear the tram lines linked to it now, I remember some painfully cold waits at the little bus stop there.

This is mine in 3 days time:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

It's got more going for it than my local one! Look it's even got a dot matrix sign to tell you stuff!!

And benches!

And a bin...

Sadly a lot of British very small station are similar to yours, with just no attempt at providing even basic facilities at all.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

My closest at the moment:

Windermere?

 

[dessiato]

Apparently there's a small station in the next town so mine would be this:

or this one:

 

[Supine]

Windermere?

Yep

 

[RubyToogood]

 

[tombowler]

this is mine,
From the road,

And on the, almost a platform,

one of the trains

and inside one