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The bleakest station thread has generated quite a response, so how about your views on the cosiest station (or whatever term implying the opposite of bleak takes your fancy)? For me, a contender has to be Kings Lynn, largely because of its enjoyable shop-cum-newsagent-cum-cafe-cum-bar.

I'm preparing an illustrated talk on 'The Golden Age of Railway Posters' and one I am showing is a pre-First World War poster for Bognor Regis, produced for the Great Western Railway. Did the GWR run summer special services to the resort, which is clearly well outside its normal area? Thanks for...

I was looking at an OS map of Northumberland and noticed a stretch of unclassified road north of Ashington by Old Moor, High Stead and Middlesteads farms (NZ255905). The road linking these has five 'exits', four of which require level crossing of a railway line - two of the ECML, two of the...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/stranraer-station.186815/#post-4126561 A restoration of the Stranraer to Carlisle line would/ have implications for freight transit from the northern half of Ireland to Great Britain.