DelW
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The screenshot attached may help to visualise the layout:
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Trivia : Are there any stations that have no public exits?
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zwk500
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Been mentioned upthread, it has footpath access.
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I’ve alighted and joined at Stanlow & Thornton several times. It is outside the refinery security gate. But you have to pass some forbidding sounding signs on Oil Sites Road to get there. It can be reached from the east end by car, foot or bike and from the west end by foot or bike. But of course no trains stop there at present.
Bletchleyite
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It doesn't have public road access but it does have access onto a public footpath. No different to Dyfi Junction really.
Mcr Warrior
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A station with no public exits? No. It's certainly remote, but that's a different thing. As @Bletchleyite has pointed out, it's accessible on foot (using the nearby Weaver's Way long distance footpath).
If that's the criteria then Canary Wharf Liz Line station, 15 million users per year, has no road access at all, public or private, either.
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These two were a pain in the 'arris to visit back in the '80's
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Not necessarily- after all, plenty of private property is accessed directly from the highway.
bramling
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They are no different now. Essentially footpath access only.
Enllac in Mallorca is an interchange with no public access (or at least none when I was there around 10 years ago). Enllac is the interchange between electric trains to Palma, diesel to Manacor and diesel to Sa Pobla.
Apart from start and end of service, all trains terminate there and passengers end up connecting between the diesel and electric services in the middle of nowhere.
Apart from start and end of service, all trains terminate there and passengers end up connecting between the diesel and electric services in the middle of nowhere.
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Sinfin Central was an odd one as I think there was an overgrown footpath that was about 400m off Wilmore Road which was enough justification for British Rail to claim it had public access. According to Wikipedia the public right of way from Wilmore Road to Sinfin Central was still in place until 2023.
As others have said Sinfin North was for Rolls Royce workers only. Given the passenger services on the Sinfin Branch ended in 1993 and were replaced by a taxi until final closure in 1998 I have always wondered how taxis could serve Sinfin North if there was no public access.
As others have said Sinfin North was for Rolls Royce workers only. Given the passenger services on the Sinfin Branch ended in 1993 and were replaced by a taxi until final closure in 1998 I have always wondered how taxis could serve Sinfin North if there was no public access.
CastlebarKeith
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Castlebar Park in London never had road access on either side when l lived there in the 1970s.
FinsburyPark
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Smallbrook Junction, Isle of Wight. You can only change for the steam railway
Mcr Warrior
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Thanks for so confirming. See also post #4.
EbbwJunction1
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It does now, as I've used the station to go to watch matches at Ealing Trailfinders RFC nearby.
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Also used to be home of the British Railways Staff Association (BRSA) club back in the '70s, and where the Southall and Ealing branch of the NUR held their Banch meetings back in the day.
Longcross is no longer a MoD halt. The station is adjacent to some film studios and a rapidly expanding new town.
How about the various harbour quay stations? I'm thinking of Weymouth as an example, to which there was no official foot access to the quay station - although in reality the ramp at the end of the platform ran down to the road where the tramway ran
SECR 65
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Yes - there is no platform at Epping Forest to my knowledge (when I visited in Autumn 2025).
There must be lots of other examples like this - where there is simply no platform - but surely they hardly count as stations.
However you can still pick up tickets there, according to the National Rail interactive map!
And there is a lost property service.
DelW
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When I've visited the EOR (admittedly usually for special events), they run connecting services from Epping tube station using vintage buses, mostly RMs but occasionally RTs or RFs. They run quite frequently between Epping and North Weald, and less frequently between North Weald, Ongar and (I think) Shenfield.
Despite being run in connection with the railway, these operate under normal bus service rules, so accept ENCTS passes and applicable £2 or £3 fare caps.
steamybrian
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High Rocks station on the Spa Valley Railway is only accessible through the adjacent pub garden. The station is closed when the pub is closed or when the pub has restricted access for special events (for example weddings or corporate functions)
DelW
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As posts 21 and 36 suggested
