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

    Chester for majority of services. Bache if I am using Merseyrail. Both less than a mile, so walk.
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    Best stations for locos

    Closer to home at Newport.
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    Peterborough Station Yesterday Morning 26/2

    Excellent observation on our risk averse, safety culture.
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    Chester Station to City Centre Free Bus Ends on November 21

    The stuff that dreams are made of.
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    Chester Station to City Centre Free Bus Ends on November 21

    Unfortunately this depot is now no longer in use.
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    Lineside Trespassers.

    Agree with that.
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    what are your favourite songs or pieces of music with a railway connection or title??

    Downtown Train by Tom Waits (this is the original covered by Rod Stewart etc.).
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    what are your favourite songs or pieces of music with a railway connection or title??

    Homeward Bound by Simon & Garfunkel. Supposedly written on Warrington Bank Quay (though some say Runcorn) station.
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    Nth Wales/Chester/Wrexham line closed

    BBC text showing line reopened at 08:30 after fatality at Saltney Jct (Chester).
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    Caravans overlooking railway lines

    North Wales coast, Rhyl, Abergele etc.
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    Platform Tickets

    Chester station booking office issue platform tickets (10p). Barrier staff will normally allow access for spotting/photography without one.

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