Least used station on the Underground

[laptop]

How does Watford West manage 16 passengers when it has been shut since 1996?

I believe it's not technically shut. A road-widening scheme took out a bridge, wasn't it?

I think that if you turn up there with a ticket, the railway company has to get you a taxi to Watford Junction

* Oooh, weak lemonade - grrreat! And potted meat sandwiches! *

 

[rennie]

I've just checked and it's not been erased from the map since the post that said where it was

Allow me to be lazy just this once!

 

[discplayer]

Berney Arms in Norfolk and Dovey Junction on the Cambrian line have only footpath access for example - the latter path being apparently an adder haunt in the summer !

I went to Berney Arms the other week. Six people got off for the ten minute walk across fields to the Berney Arms pub and the five mile walk along the river to Great Yarmouth.

Am not surprised about Shippea Hill, a couple of trains pass each way each hour but only a couple a day stop.

 

[pogofish]

Nope - it's deffo Barry Links!

Barry Links railway station serves the village of Barry, west of Carnoustie, Angus.

Village seems a rather grand term for a farm, its cottar-houses & a couple of MOD houses for civillian staff on the range!

 

[Velouria]

In the Strategic Rail Authority’s 2002/3 financial year, only three fare-paying people (excluding season ticket holders) boarded trains at Barry Links station, and five disembarked, making it the least busy station in the United Kingdom, with Gainsborough Central.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Links_railway_station

But does that include Army Rail Warrants, as it is the nearest station to Barry Buddon Range, a large army training facility.

Once there was a racecourse there, but it went bust and the Army eventually took over the area as a range.

Not far from my home town, either


edit: link

(Is the Army considered a hostile link? )

 

[davesgcr]

Seriously though - ought one spend money on maintaining such stations when there is a good case for investing somewhere else with much more potential and traffic.

One recalls the glorious station of Black Rock on the Cambrian coast line which had the misfortune of being washed out to sea circa 1977 in a high tide (twas only built of sleepers) - and had one regular annual user who was a fisherperson from somewhere in East Anglia - nonetheless - they had to go through the formal statuary closure procedure with all the cost that entailed.

He expressed hardship through closure of course.....

 

[davesgcr]

Berney Arms has some bird watching traffic apparently - and there is a pub not far away on the broad.The postman used to come by train and walk - and be picked up by another train eventually which stopped for him especially.

Watford West is physically there - a glue sniffer bag infested overgrown platfrom with vegetation.Due to the high level of parcel spares traffic from the nearby Foden works - it was importnat enough in the 1950s to have a Station Master grade B no less.

Along with a peak service from Croxley Green to Broad Street......