MCR247
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I think it'd be more like: Nottingham: Mansfield Parkway 
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Peter Mugridge
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No, I did think you'd copied and pasted it from Google, but quite frankly there are so many mashed lyrics on Google I could quite easily believe it if someone had actually listed the song thus on there...
CheekyBandit
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I regularly go to Cambridge and the bus from the station doesn't particularly go near where I want to. I tend to get the X5 bus from St Neots instead.
On the subject of proper hidden stations I have used - the last one I recall using was Brussels Congress to get to the airport from the Jacques Brel Youth Hostel in Brussels. The site for the hostel says it is very close to the 3 stations: Midi (South), Central and Nord (North). Congress (hidden on a side street off the ring road - at least it was eight years ago) is closer than any of those other three.
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No, I did think you'd copied and pasted it from Google, but quite frankly there are so many mashed lyrics on Google I could quite easily believe it if someone had actually listed the song thus on there...
Sorry for my rather harsh response to you. I just found it funny.
Peter Mugridge
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That's fine Striker, I didn't think it was all that harsh. Just thought I should say where I was coming from.
Funnily enough, though, now that your version is on here the chances are it will show up in a Google search result before long - and I look forwards to seeing it being C&P'd elsewhere as a result...
Funnily enough, though, now that your version is on here the chances are it will show up in a Google search result before long - and I look forwards to seeing it being C&P'd elsewhere as a result...
Death
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Not really sure if this is in the same vein, but Farnborough North would be quite easy to pass by/miss if ye wern't explicitly keeping an eye out for it!
I think the same could also be said for Longcross as well...AFAIK, it's only actually visible to those on board passing trains!
I think the same could also be said for Longcross as well...AFAIK, it's only actually visible to those on board passing trains!
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I second London Fields, it's hidden parallel to the main road and I don't think any buses serve it directly. Hanwell station is somewhere I've never found and I spend quite a bit of time skulking around West London, same with Acton Main Line but then that might be a bit more obvious and I've just not been paying attention.
I always forget Fenchurch Street is there, I never seem to come across it in day-to-day life really.
I always forget Fenchurch Street is there, I never seem to come across it in day-to-day life really.
I was expecting someone to have made a reference to the Dark side too!
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Upper Tyndrum, in the Scottish Highlands, is located up a small road, completely hidden by trees and the only sigh of existence is a small sign pointing up the road.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Upper+Tyndrum&aq=&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=13.365941,39.375&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Upper+Tyndrum+railway+station&ll=56.434295,-4.707888&spn=0,0.009613&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=56.434745,-4.708974&panoid=ua0x86zJeplt4O299_xuVw&cbp=12,60.88,,0,8.21
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Upper+Tyndrum&aq=&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=13.365941,39.375&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Upper+Tyndrum+railway+station&ll=56.434295,-4.707888&spn=0,0.009613&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=56.434745,-4.708974&panoid=ua0x86zJeplt4O299_xuVw&cbp=12,60.88,,0,8.21
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Has anybody mentioned the Maesteg line yet? They are all well hidden!
Maiden Newton, Dorset always struck me as a bit hidden. The long station approach road is just a single track, which in itself is a turning off a single track minor road running north-east out of the town, leading to a couple of farms and nowhere else much in particular. The only indication of the station at the road junction was a traditional small red and white BR double-arrow sign, from memory ......
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Strines station is pretty hidden.
Eric
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What about Morley in West Yorkshire?
It once took me a good 20 minutes to find.
It once took me a good 20 minutes to find.
mindfeeder
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Brading and Lake stations on the Isle of Wight are quite hidden. Both down residential cul de sacs.
Fishguard & Goodwick looks easy enough to see on those pictures, but look at the 2005 picture. From that angle it is certainly not hidden, however go around to the other side of the building and it is nearly completly hidden by the budleia (sorry, can't spell the name of that plant!)
Brigg station is quite well hidden. You have to walk down a gated road (a car park for an adjacent business) then through another set of barriers, into an unpaved area in front of the station. There is a sign at the end of the road, but looking at the approach you'd probably not believe it! Similar in many ways to Gainsborough Central (as already mentioned) which is also hidden in a car park, at the back of a new town centre development.
Bingham station is also located down a dead-end road, with only a small sign in the Market Place to reveal its location, and the sign outside the station blends in with the trees! Not that easy to locate your first time going there.
Bingham station is also located down a dead-end road, with only a small sign in the Market Place to reveal its location, and the sign outside the station blends in with the trees! Not that easy to locate your first time going there.
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I always think that a few stations round my area are hidden away in my books. Ellesmere port for example is more or less under a bridge and down an allyway. Capnehurst station is on short branch of a very rural country lane.
Stanlow and thornton and ince and elton i think are hidden away quite well. Overpool though I think the best candidate because the only way of getting to it is via a long incline downwards and its under overpool road and the only way of knowing its there is the big british rail sign
Helsby even makes a good job of hiding itself with it being on a dead end lane.
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Just realised Ince and Elton station is most hidden away as there is a fork at a bridge and a thin road overgrown with trees and bushes. The only way of noticing it is a rusty old sign.
Stanlow and thornton and ince and elton i think are hidden away quite well. Overpool though I think the best candidate because the only way of getting to it is via a long incline downwards and its under overpool road and the only way of knowing its there is the big british rail sign
Helsby even makes a good job of hiding itself with it being on a dead end lane.
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Just realised Ince and Elton station is most hidden away as there is a fork at a bridge and a thin road overgrown with trees and bushes. The only way of noticing it is a rusty old sign.
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Statto
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Liverpool has a few hidden stations, mainly in the South of the City, St Michaels being one, Aigburth & Cressington being others. Roby is another station you can pass without knowing it's there, being on a side road.
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