St Erth for St Ives railway station – a country junction
Although it’s a station on the busy main line from Paddington to Penzance in Cornwall, St Erth retains the air of a Victorian country junction.
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Closed railway station: Aynho for Deddington, Oxfordshire
The optimistically named Oxford and Rugby Railway managed to build a track from Oxford only as far as Banbury, with line being absorbed by the Great Western Railway before it …
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Banbury railway station: fog, semaphore signals and trainspotters
My train back from Cardiff yesterday ended up taking a curious diversionary route into Oxfordshire, with the HST ending up at Banbury station for 20 minutes before reversing out in the opposite direction. With the station …
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Behold! Hendon Broadway and station
I had to take a trip to Hendon last week. It wasn’t very nice.
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Remembering Broad Street railway station, London
Closed in 1986 after a long and lingering death, the once bustling terminus at Broad Street was in a parlous state at the end, with its extensive canopies cut back, …
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Deserted 57th Street station, Chicago, winter of ’99
After a lovely long walk across snow-covered parks and – unwittingly – over a frozen lake or two, I decided to catch the train back to my hotel in the …
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The incredible fake houses of Paddington
A deceptive façade at 23/24 Leinster Gardens, Paddington, London W2
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‘Folkaoke’ at the Railway, Tulse Hill
With so much going on every night on Brixton, I rarely venture south for a night, but I was glad I made the effort to go nearby Tulse Hill for …
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