[Trivia] Stations not accessible by road

[Gathursty]

Some stations are in unusual places where you can't pull up next to or even nearby in a car.

I'll go first.
Commondale - Next to sheep grazing land.
Elephant & Castle - Entrance within a shopping centre.

 

[duffield]

Dovey Junction is a classic example.
Berney Arms is another.
Both a long way from a public road.

Edit: Smallbrook Junction on the Isle of Wight is another classic case. No access for vehicles or even pedestrians!

 

[InOban]

Corrour, famously.
I think there was a previous discussion whether the access to Altnabreac, or am I thinking of Forsinard, is on a public road, or on an estate road which the public may use.

 

[Train Maniac]

Manulla Junction in Ireland on the Westport Line- only used to interchange with branch trains to Ballina

 

[Mag_seven]

IBM (when it was open).

 

[Springs Branch]

Smallbrook Junction Edit: already mentioned
Lympstone Commando
Until last year - Redcar British Steel

 

[sharpley]

Elephant & Castle - Entrance within a shopping centre.

Theres an exit from that station onto the street around the back of the shopping centre, unless its been built on recently with all the redevelopment work going on round there.
EDIT : road is called Elephant Road and is still there according to Google Maps

 

[vlad]

Middlewood, which has a self-explanatory name.

There are a number on private railways. Dduallt, Totnes Riverside, Snowdon Summit, Dilhorne Park, etc.

 

[bearhugger]

James Cook (JCH) on the Middlesbrough to Whitby line. At the back of the hospital it is named after. A footpath to the hospital and main road or the footpath the other way over the line into the housing estate.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Middlewood, which has a self-explanatory name.

There are a number on private railways. Dduallt, Totnes Riverside, Snowdon Summit, Dilhorne Park, etc.

Another one is Cuckoo's Nest Halt on the Kirklees Light Railway. Accessible via a footpath up an embankment from a farm track.

 

[ElectroSoldier]

Ryde Pier doesnt have a road serving it only the pier which has a roadway on it but doesnt really count as a road because its on the pier but then there is Smallbrook Junction station.

 

[onlinespotting]

Newhaven Marine

 

[Momo and diggy]

Trent

 

[frodshamfella]

Stanlow and Thornton is a bit iffy to get to by road, its restricted with cameras watching.

 

[Lewlew]

Theres an exit from that station onto the street around the back of the shopping centre, unless its been built on recently with all the redevelopment work going on round there.
EDIT : road is called Elephant Road and is still there according to Google Maps

Yep, still there. Will probably get some more use when they start knocking down the shopping centre.

 

[Kite159]

Corrour, famously.
I think there was a previous discussion whether the access to Altnabreac, or am I thinking of Forsinard, is on a public road, or on an estate road which the public may use.

It's Altnabreac which is like Corrour and only accessible by a private 'road'.

Forsinard is accessible as it has the RSPB centre in the old station building

 

[Esker-pades]

Stanlow and Thornton is a bit iffy to get to by road, its restricted with cameras watching.

I had no problem when I walked there from Elton.

Maybe they were having a day off.

 

[Mag_seven]

Corrour, famously.

which is like Corrour and only accessible by a private 'road'.

If you can get a car down that private road then surely Corrour is accessible by road?

 

[Esker-pades]

British Steel Redcar. When it was open.

 

[frodshamfella]

I had no problem when I walked there from Elton.

Maybe they were having a day off.

I read a rail blog once and the travellers we asked questions at the station, having said that, the station doesnt belong to Shell so I dont think they could stop.you

 

[61653 HTAFC]

A couple of weeks ago Mirfield wasn't accessible by road, only by boat!

 

[Class800]

Depends on definitions - Elephant and Castle is attached to a shopping centre but also has a road entrance, as well as rail replacement bus access - using nearby bus stops. Metrocentre and Meadowhall are similar - but are accessible by road in that a bus can serve the station

 

[Gathursty]

I didn't know Elephant & Castle had a back entrance. Thanks for that info.

Longcross is another one depending on if your vehicle can fit through the metal barrier to discourage travellers caravans.

 

[gazzaa2]

Walsall?

 

[Shimbleshanks]

Hampstead on the Northern Line. 58.5 metres from the nearest road (verically), according to Wikipedia...

 

[Trainician]

St Pancras International?

 

[D365]

St Pancras International?

Unless I’m very much mistaken, St Pancras is enveloped by roads.

 

[Trainician]

Unless I’m very much mistaken, St Pancras is enveloped by roads.

Oops sorry

 

[vlad]

A couple of weeks ago Mirfield wasn't accessible by road, only by boat!

If it's not accessible by rail then does it count?

 

[Kite159]

Walsall?

Has roads next to the station, mainly platform 1.

Certainly a case of dodge the taxi in that area