joe royal
6:15 Thu Feb 25
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North Weald
Say hello to. Crass when you get there.
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Eddie B
5:58 Thu Feb 25
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Many years ago, going home to Upminster after a heavy night up town, I a) got the wrong train and b) fell asleep. Woke up just as it was pulling into Dagenham Dock. It might as well have been a derelict station. Nothing whatsoever there, apart from two platforms.
Luckily enough there was a train going back the other way in just under 30 mins.
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riosleftsock
5:52 Thu Feb 25
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I went to a station in Ukraine a few years ago, got off the train onto the platform (long drop).
Looked around for the exit and realised it was the other side of 8 train tracks, each pair of tracks had a platform with some sort of steps or ladders up to it but you had to clamber across the tracks with your cases and climb up the metal ladders or steps.
Russian.Ukrainian trains are much wider than ours, and poorly maintained so its a fucking death trap crossing these stations with bags and kids.
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Gavros
5:47 Thu Feb 25
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I had a heavy night out doing all sorts in Fabric about 10 years ago. Got the train home, fell asleep, woke up in fucking Battlesbridge! I had to stand there in the freezing cold while the train went out to southminster and then came back again.
Thinking about it, I should have stayed on the train.
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Dudley Moore
5:43 Thu Feb 25
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I watched Quatermass and The Pit the other day.
Fuck doing a tour down there.
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Eddie B
5:42 Thu Feb 25
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It was Silvertown. Closed in 2006.
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El Scorchio
5:39 Thu Feb 25
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I caught a train from Budapest to Zagreb last year. Some of the stations along the route sound like a couple described here.
Literally a like a shed or garage in the middle of nowhere with platforms which are just like a bit of pavement.
Astonishing.
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Stranded
5:38 Thu Feb 25
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Used to be a couple of good ones near White City. Not sure if they're still there/accessible? They might have been filled in as part of the shopping centre development.
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i-Ron
5:36 Thu Feb 25
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Chinkey Weasel 5:07 Thu Feb 25
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Haha spot on!
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riosleftsock
5:33 Thu Feb 25
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Manea is also a request only stop. Bizarre place on the Cross Country Stansted airport to Birmingham route. Just a platform or two surrounded by fields.
There are also quite a few bits left of the Audley end to ashdon via saffron walden branch line left that you can get to easily.
I nearly bought the old station house in saffron walden two years ago. Still has part of the platform and one of the old platform lamp-posts (still works) in the back garden.
Would have made me a happy man, but hey ho.
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Robson
5:28 Thu Feb 25
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Battlesbridge is actually a 'request' stop isn't it?
Maybe not. I don't know how you'd get off there if that was the case.
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Chinkey Weasel
5:07 Thu Feb 25
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Not London but I got a train from Battlesbridge a few months back. It's as if they started to make a station then thought, fuck this, we'll just leave it like this. Never seen anything like it
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goose
4:46 Thu Feb 25
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not London i know, but there's a disused line from St Albans to Hatfield which is now a cycle path but the old station is still there. Now called the 'Alban Way'.
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The Stoat
4:46 Thu Feb 25
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Hobbs End ?
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eswing hammer
4:44 Thu Feb 25
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Its called The Sugarplantationstation
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Eddie B
4:32 Thu Feb 25
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What's the old station near the Tate & Lyle factory?
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1964
4:18 Thu Feb 25
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North Woolwich is/was a nice station, now being left to rot unfortunately but might still be good for a few snaps.
http://newham.filmoffice.co.uk/newham/old-railway-station.aspx?alttemplate=boroughlocation
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Grumpster
4:14 Thu Feb 25
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Don't ask permission, just be like Swan in The Warriors and stroll down the underground tracks.
Bet there is some great stuff to see below some of those stations.
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El Scorchio
4:13 Thu Feb 25
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You could ask TFL if you can go and have a look in Aldwych if it's for education based purposes. I've done the tour of the station and it's really interesting.
But as others have pointed out, there are stacks of closed/abandoned stations on the tube map which you can research using the links.
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Marco Boogers
4:12 Thu Feb 25
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http://www.abandonedstations.org.uk/
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Gavros
4:09 Thu Feb 25
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upton park
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