Haywain
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I’ll throw in to the mix the lovely Norfolk town of Wells-next-the-sea, and down in Suffolk Lavenham is well worthy of consideration.
What's that special about the Middleton in North East Manchester that makes it a favourite non-rail served town?Middleton (Manchester).
Sedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale, think Sedbergh was once served by train as it contains a "Station Road"? Probably too small to be called a "town" (how is a "town" defined??) but Chipping, lovely place and off the tourist track. Bury has a smashing town centre, trams replaced the trains years ago although the East Lancs Railway does serve the town so not sure if that counts?
On the same trip I visited Dent village (staying overnight and visiting the pub) - but not arriving via the station! (Actually, technically I did arrive by rail... but 101 DMU to Edale - my last ever trip on a heritage DMU - followed by a very long walk!)Tongue-in-cheek shout for Dent - might have a station but it's a seriously long way away!
And Hawes, which has the Wensleydale Railway nearby but the OP excluded heritage railway only places, although as with places such as Tenterden it has no direct connection with the national rail network.Sedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale, think Sedbergh was once served by train as it contains a "Station Road"? Probably too small to be called a "town" (how is a "town" defined??) but Chipping, lovely place and off the tourist track. Bury has a smashing town centre, trams replaced the trains years ago although the East Lancs Railway does serve the town so not sure if that counts?
Tongue-in-cheek shout for Dent - might have a station but it's a seriously long way away!
Chapel-en-le-Frith on the Buxton line is a fair distance and a fair climb from the townSedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale, think Sedbergh was once served by train as it contains a "Station Road"? Probably too small to be called a "town" (how is a "town" defined??) but Chipping, lovely place and off the tourist track. Bury has a smashing town centre, trams replaced the trains years ago although the East Lancs Railway does serve the town so not sure if that counts?
Tongue-in-cheek shout for Dent - might have a station but it's a seriously long way away!
It is, however, very much served by rail.Chapel-en-le-Frith on the Buxton line is a fair distance and a fair climb from the town
These are all "favourites", noting the thread title?Some in the North East.
Washington
Sedgefield
Crook
Barnard Castle
Consett
Ferryhill
Though the town centre is 2.5 miles from Radley station. There are plenty of parts of (say) Swindon that are more than 2.5 miles from the town station.Abingdon. A town of 40,000 souls, but no rail connection.
I'm assuming you mean the cliff railway between the two?Lynton/Lynmouth have a rail service, it must be a proper one as there is a RRB service when it is closed for engineering works.
When looking at a flat map, without local knowledge, it is so easy to ignore the simple truth that standard gauge railways cannot run up/down a 30% gradient.I'm assuming you mean the cliff railway between the two?
My sentence did mention that some on my list are just as bus interchanges, of which Middleton is a case in point.What's that special about the Middleton in North East Manchester that makes it a favourite non-rail served town?
Seriously ............. try living hereWisbech!
Wootton Bassett and Corsham ‘connected’ but not served. The latter could only be served by stopping London to Bristol HS services. But then true ‘HS’ is long gone on GWR.
Devizes, Marlborough, Cirencester, Farringdon, Shaftesbury, Blandford and more.
I went up there in 1982 on a Lads do, then on to Cape Wrath ( where we missed the ferry back and had to wade/swim the Kyle of Durness)In the summer of 1974, the year prior to our wedding, Patricia and I drove up to Lochinver in the Highland region, taking turns with the driving, as Patricia had always wanted to visit The White Beach there. It is situated on the more northerly west coast region at the head of the sea loch, Loch Inver. It was further north than the most westerly area that was ever reached by rail.
How time flies, as that was 50 years ago, but we both really enjoyed the ten day stay there.
Isn’t that what you’d expect favourites to be?Twee market towns are perhaps a little overrepresented though...
Some of them. But I personally don't reckon much to a lot of them. Personal preference and all that.Isn’t that what you’d expect favourites to be?
Those signs hark back to the days of the GER's Saffron Walden Railway, for which Audley End and Bartlow were the termini. It was a railway of which my mother has vivid memories from her childhood and it closed in 1964.But Audley End station is actually in Wendens Ambo and spent it's first few years called Wenden. Although not appearing in timetables the station name boards do say "Audley End for Saffron Walden "