• Our booking engine at tickets.railforums.co.uk (powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!

TRIVIA National Rail Stations Within 10 mins walk of a Football Stadium

Status
Not open for further replies.
F

Fleetwood Boy

Member
Joined
11 Oct 2017
Messages
189
Undiscovered said:
Horwich parkway for the as was Reebok- Bolton.
Crewe for Gresty Road- Crewe.
Blackpool North for Blackpool.
Stockport for Edgely Road- Stockport County.
Buxton for Silverlands- highest ground in England.
Aston
Click to expand...
I’d be surprised if Blackpool North was within 10 minutes walk of Bloomfield Road?

Anyway. My contribution is Cartsdyke which is less than 10 minutes walk from Morton’s ground at Cappielow in Greenock.
 
Sponsor Post - registered members do not see these adverts; click here to register, or click here to log in
R

RailUK Forums

S

swt class 450

Guest
Joined
9 Apr 2016
Messages
1,909
Lewes is about a three minute walk from a football stadium. It is just around the corner from the station.
 
S

SeanG

Member
Joined
4 May 2013
Messages
1,178
Fleetwood Boy said:
I’d be surprised if Blackpool North was within 10 minutes walk of Bloomfield Road?
Click to expand...

Maybe not but Blackpool South definitely is.

Another one is Daisy Bill for New Sirs, home of Daisy Hill FC.
Given the number of teams in the football pyramid there must be hundreds, if not thousands, of these
 
61653 HTAFC

61653 HTAFC

Veteran Member
Joined
18 Dec 2012
Messages
17,646
Location
Another planet...
Taunton Town's Wordsworth Drive ground can be walked from the station in 10mins, providing you get a wiggle on and leave via the platform 2 exit rather than the main ticket office. The cricket ground is nearer still.
 
Stampy

Stampy

Member
Joined
21 Sep 2014
Messages
377
Location
Peterborough
For 118 years Stamford's ground backed onto the Station (until they moved in 2014 to a pit-hole 3 miles further away) - many a time a ball has been chased into the tunnel there!!
 
I

Ian22012

Member
Joined
25 Feb 2018
Messages
8
Maidstone East and Maidstone Barracks are both within 10 mins walk of the Gallagher Stadium
 
H

HLE

Established Member
Joined
27 Dec 2013
Messages
1,405
53703 said:
Do Coventry City still play at the Ricoh Arena?
Click to expand...

Yep. The stadium is a 30 second walk from the station......probably and possibly the closest!

Most usage occurs when Wasps are at home as they get higher attendances than the football.
 
53703

53703

Member
Joined
17 Jul 2017
Messages
128
Mansfield station is not a million miles away from Field Mill
A few years ago you could've had Cardiff Central for FA/League Cup Finals and Wales games
The Hawthorns for West Brom
Witton for Aston Villa
 
A

alangla

Member
Joined
11 Apr 2018
Messages
1,178
Location
Glasgow
Dalmarnock is probably about 10 minutes walk from Celtic Park since the new road & footpath past the Emirates arena opened in 2014
 
RPI

RPI

Established Member
Joined
6 Dec 2010
Messages
2,752
Bordseley for B**mingham City, Lelant Saltings for St Ives town (no one said they had to be league sides!)
 
D

dmkc

Member
Joined
9 Feb 2017
Messages
64
Hamilton West - Hamilton Academical FC would maybe just sneak in
 
ijmad

ijmad

Established Member
Joined
7 Jan 2016
Messages
1,810
Location
UK
St James Park is right next to Exeter City's stadium.
Watford High Street and The Vicarage (Watford FC)
Falmer Station next to Falmer Stadium (Brighton and Hove Albion)
Canons Park and The Hive (Barnet)
Drayton Park and Emirates Stadium (Arsenal)
 
H

HowardGWR

Established Member
Joined
30 Jan 2013
Messages
4,983
We Bristol Rovers fans are mourning the fact that our station (Stapleton Road, Eastville) is still there, just a few hundred yards from the ground, but they shooed us away and built a b****y IKEA on our stadium!

Our friends and rivals City, at Ashton Gate, are still happily there, but they sadly lost their adjacent station. If the Portishead line is reinstated, especially if a tram train, I expect it will be reinstated, even nearer to the ground.
 
A

Andrew1395

Member
Joined
30 Sep 2014
Messages
589
Location
Bushey
Watford High Street - if you know the route through the Girls Grammar school is half a mile to Vicarage Road stadium, so seems to fit the ten minute guiotine
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Top