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xotGD

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Bingley has a Book Exchange in both waiting rooms. Scant consolation if you need to use the loo!
 

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I wouldn't go so far as to call it a museum, but Great Yarmouth has some historical railway items and photos on display.
 

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Carnforth has the Brief Encounter tea room and a David Lean exhibition.
brief encounter is quite a do. But it also has a model railway shop and a wedding shop.
So you can meet your girl over tea and cake, then nip under the subway and get the wedding frock.
 

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Manchester Piccadilly has a bank. Other stations just make do with cash machines! :smile:

Is there still a museum type thing at Kyle of Lochalsh ?
It's not a bad museum, actually, although clearly amateur. There's one at Glenfinnan too, although that one doesn't sell local beer.

Aviemore has an Australian restaurant with an entrance from the platform.
It didn't have any obvious Australian theming three months ago. I thought it was too posh for me to eat there so perhaps the owners have had a rebrand....
 

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Nantwich has an Indian restaurant. Seems quite busy most times I pass.

I was doing a charity collection (in Crewe) a few weeks ago. A chap walked up to me, said "you used to be a councillor didn't you?" I said yes. He then thanked me for speaking in favour of the planning application to convert the station building into a restaurant ! He had a better memory than me. I couldn't even remember doing so ! :D

Worth pointing out that there's no direct access between the platform and the restaurant (I think a planning condition to stop well-lubricated patrons falling onto the railway).
 

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Town Green station on Merseyrail's Ormskirk line had a police station (for Lancashire Constabulary, not BTP) in the station building. Or at least it did; I cannot find any current references to it, so it may have closed.
 

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It didn't have any obvious Australian theming three months ago. I thought it was too posh for me to eat there so perhaps the owners have had a rebrand....
Just checked - looks like it’s permanently closed now. Used to be called ‘Roos Leap’.
 

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A number of the stations of the East Suffolk line had other uses for their station buildings at one point, B&B at Woodbridge, Farm Shop at Melton, Museum at Halesworth. I also noted last week Dunbar had a wishing well on the platform by the well attended garden!
 

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A number of the stations of the East Suffolk line had other uses for their station buildings at one point, B&B at Woodbridge, Farm Shop at Melton, Museum at Halesworth. I also noted last week Dunbar had a wishing well on the platform by the well attended garden!
So you can chuck money in the wishing well and wish your trains turns up on time.
 

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Whitby of course has a Thai restaurant and a Waiting Room that isn't a waiting room.
 

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Corrour, despite its extreme isolation, has a surprisingly upmarket bar and restaurant.
 

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Not sure if this is what the OP is looking for, but there's a boot scraper at Rose Hill, Marple. It's the head of an old yard brush fastened to a chair (chair as in track component, not one you sit on). The station is used by walkers on the Middlewood Way (I was one today) and I expect some arrive with muddy boots.

Littleborough has a local history centre.
 
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