Britain's least used railway stations

[Cid]

I like the Portsmouth Arms station on the tarka line between Exeter and Barnstaple; there can't be many stations named after the pub next door...

 

[_pH_]

I like the Portsmouth Arms station on the tarka line between Exeter and Barnstaple; there can't be many stations named after the pub next door...

Berney Arms!

Ok, so it's 600m away, but it still counts

 

[_pH_]

Manea always seemed very underused when i lived near there (2 trains a day each way iirc). I think it's busier now that the village has expanded and become something of a dormitory for P'boro/Ely/Cambridge

e2a: Manea's on the same line as Shippea Hill (post #2) so probably has similar levels of service

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Are those figures really annual? How are they measured?

I certainly got off and on at Dorking West in 2005/6. I can't believe there were only forty people who did the same all year.

I didn't even knoww there was a Dorking West - thought it was just Dorking and Dorking Deepdene!

 

[PacificOcean]

I like the Portsmouth Arms station on the tarka line between Exeter and Barnstaple; there can't be many stations named after the pub next door...

Forest Hill station in London was originally called The Jolly Sailor.

 

[Fledgling]

I posted that with a bloody picture less that 10 posts ago!

(in a small voice) sorry, wasn't in ed's top ten, jumped the gun.

Doesn't look as nice as its northern cousin, they at least kept the old bridge n office there.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I like the Portsmouth Arms station on the tarka line between Exeter and Barnstaple; there can't be many stations named after the pub next door...

There's practically nothing else there but a pub, it's brilliant. I used to live in Barnstaple and whenever friends from London came to visit they were always utterly astonished that there are stations on that line where the train will only stop if you ask the driver nicely first

 

[Isambard]

friends from London came to visit they were always utterly astonished that there are stations on that line where the train will only stop if you ask the driver nicely first

London <---> World

 

[nino_savatte]

No. 2 – Shippea Hill, Cambridgshire, 26 passengers

"Situated some distance away from any substantial settlement (although not many miles from Mildenhall), in a totally flat fen landscape, as far as the eye can see, Shippea Hill has in fact no hill.

Despite not being within walking distance of any large settlement, most of the station car park was closed and sold off after the Privatisation of British Rail."

As of 2006, Shippea Hill is served by 1 train a day in each direction on Saturdays. The 07:22 to Norwich (61 mins) and the 19:22 to Cambridge (29 mins). No services operate on any other day of the week.

Ah, Shippea Hill. The last time I saw this station was in 1964 and we travelled from there to Ely on a steam train.

 

[trevortrain]

Weymouth Quay never closed but not had a train this century and Norton Bridge last train in 2004 never closed.

 

[davesgcr]

Weymouth Quay never closed but not had a train this century and Norton Bridge last train in 2004 never closed.

Norton Bridge will go in 2016 - what was the waiting room is now a pile of rubble.