Which is your closest station/how do you get to it?

[Howardh]

Me; Lostock appx 1.5 miles
If I don't get a lift off a family member then it's a walk. No direct bus service from my house :cry: easier to get to Bolton or Horwich 2.5 & 4.5 miles away.

 

[DavidBrown]

My closest is Barnstaple (about 12 miles), and I drive. 20 minute drive vs over an hour on the bus = no contest.

 

[GatwickDepress]

Ore, roughly 0.9 miles away from my house. If I walk to the station, I have a steep hill to walk up. If I walk back, I have two steep hills to walk up!

Alternately, I walk or take the bus to Hastings. This is a 1.9/2.0/2.2 mile journey depending on the route I take and is even more incline to inclines. As I often book online Ore doesn't have a TVM; to take advantage of advance tickets, I often use Hastings for that.

It's fun, fun, fun walking home with two heavy bags after arriving at Hastings on at half one in the morning.

 

[chris89]

For Long distance trains would be Wolverhampton.

22 miles about 44 mins by car or 70 by public transport.

Local being Kidderminster.

12 miles about 32 mins and 60 mins by public transport.

Chris

 

[90019]

Edinburgh Waverley is roughly 2.5 miles south of my house. If I'm going there to get a train myself, I'll take the bus (either the 23 or the 8) which takes about 25-30 minutes including the walk at each end.
If I'm going to drop off or pick up someone else, I'll take the car. On a good run, I can get there in 10 minutes.

 

[Oswyntail]

Ilkley. 0.4 miles. Walk!

 

[Jeni]

1.9 miles to Mauldeth Road or 2.2 miles to Levenshulme. No direct buses.

I always just catch the bus to Piccadilly since most of my journeys would have to go via there (or Stockport) anyway.

 

[EssexGonzo]

Shenfield. 0.7 mile walk. 1.1 miles when drunk.

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[185]

Manchester Piccadilly

3 min walk.

 

[sonic2009]

Coventry 2.2 miles. Walk or Bus

 

[ATW Alex 101]

My closest is Capenhurst. I usually bike it there as it's only about a mile from my house. If I'm with my parents and/or brother we just take the car. The reason we don't walk is because it's down a long country lane with a thin pavement and people do about 80 down there so it's not really safe. If we are going to London on an early train we usually just go in the car to Chester.

 

[dannyandy]

Rice lane (merseyrail) about 0.5 miles and Walton a little bit more and walk

 

[Vicpaul]

Two minute walk to Bletchley for me

 

[gnolife]

I'm 15 mins from both Heald Green and Manchester Airport, but choose to use Heald for almost every trip despite getting worse service so that I can avoid the horrible queues that Airport gets. The exceptions to this are early morning and late evening journeys, journeys via Crewe (not all that frequent for me) and journeys made using advances (even less frequent because I know how bad I am at getting out of bed in time for a specific train).

 

[dvboy]

Wolverhampton, approx 20 mins by bus.

 

[EM2]

Wanstead Park, 533ft away.
Walk in about ninety seconds, if the traffic lights are in my favour

 

[ainsworth74]

Whilst I don't think this has been an issue yet but just a reminder that this is a public forum which means that anyone, not just registered members, can see what you post. So I'd avoid giving any sort of detailed directions

 

[burns20]

Bare Lane 10 minutes walk or a 3 minute bus ride if raining

 

[pitdiver]

Harlington (Beds) about 800 metres

 

[MK Tom]

Milton Keynes Central, a 1.61 mile walk. The bus will only be quicker if I get it within five minutes of leaving home, but it costs £2.10 single so I generally walk anyway. Sometimes I'll do the two mile walk to Wolverton for a cheaper return to Northampton or Rugby.

 

[armadillomaste]

Outwood, 0.8 miles.

I walk it. Takes 10 minutes or so.

 

[Harpers Tate]

.....

 

[WelshBluebird]

Oldfield Park, about a 7 minute walk.
Although I often will walk about 25 minutes to Bath Spa (or get a bus which takes 10 minutes) as frequencies from OLF can be useless at times.

Or if I am at my parents, Ton Pentre, also about a 7 minute walk.

 

[43074]

South Wigston is my nearest at roughly 1.5 miles, but Leicester about 2 miles away has a much better train service, so I use that. Normally travel by bus but it depends.

 

[HowardGWR]

Axminster 7 miles. Bus is a non-starter as we have to walk 1.5 miles first up a steep hill to catch it and it takes an hour instead of 20 mins in a car. The station car park used to be free but now SWT is on the make, on that too.

The foregoing replies demonstrate how useless local bus transport is anywhere except in a big urban area.

 

[Manchester77]

Trafford Park - less than a five minute walk but because that has a rather poor service
Sretford Metrolink - fifteen minute walk

 

[High Dyke]

Choice of two public routes for me. 10 - 15 minutes depending which one i take.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Closest as the crow flies is Lockwood, about 1.2miles away but with poor bus links so I seldom use it. Other than that, depending on where I'm heading it's Huddersfield (3 miles, regular bus service during the day) or Slaithwaite (a pleasant (weather-permitting!) 4.5mile bike-ride along the canal).

 

[D6975]

Lawrence Hill is the closest, but I usually go TM or Parkway because of the service. They are both roughly the same in terms of time on the bus.

 

[Polarbear]

Bache is a 10 minute walk for me. Sometimes I'll walk to Chester station which is about 35-40 minutes.