Corrour and other remote stations

[bennorthyork]

Imagine the not improbable scenario that someone such as me that enjoys walks between stations catches the sleeper to Rannoch and walks to Corrour planning to catch the train on from there later in the day. Then due to adverse weather all trains are cancelled. There may be an autophone on Corrour station in which case it would be possible to contact Scotrail to confirm trains cancelled. There is no mobile reception there apart from a little Vodafone reception and the youth hostel is shut for most of the Winter albeit open for the month of December. So stranded at a station 12 miles across the hills to a house or road. What if any is the train company's responsibility to help get you out of there? Incidentally when I have done this walk in Winter I have the necessary survival kit to spend a night out in the open. Second question is what other stations are inaccesible by road which I am defining as more than a quarter of a mile from somewhere that you can legally drive your car to?

 

[scotsman]

There's nothing they can do in that situation, nothing.

 

[Chapeltom]

Entwistle - Manchester Victoria to Clitheroe line
Middlewood - Buxton to Manchester line

 

[route:oxford]

There's nothing they can do in that situation, nothing.

If you had a method for contacting them...

(I've no idea if there is some form of emergency help-phone)

Then the best they could do would be to contact mountain rescue for you.

 

[scotsman]

If you had a method for contacting them...

(I've no idea if there is some form of emergency help-phone)

Then the best they could do would be to contact mountain rescue for you.

Well, I was meaning other than that....

 

[EltonRoad]

I'm sure a kind person on the end of a phone would help. I'm pretty sure there's no autophone on Corrour station; I've been stranded there and ended up finding out the length of delay from a friendly Network Rail engineer who had radio contact. My Orange phone doesn't work there, I suppose you'd have to rely on Vodaphone. The nearest dwellings to Corrour are at the other end of Loch Ossian, some 5-6 miles away; maybe they could get a Land Rover sent up from there.

 

[DaveNewcastle]

Imagine the not improbable scenario that someone such as me that enjoys walks between stations . . . . .

Its a nice question to ponder while we're cozy at home/work/on-train. I'll probaly wonder later about some of the other locations that fit your suggested requirements.

But if it's a serious question, then I'd better give you a serious reply - if not for your benefit, then for anyone else reading this tempted to take such a walk.
I hope that any responsible walker will take an informed view of all the conditions during a proposed walk, using all available information, with reasonable allowances for delays, changes in weather and fitness to continue, and if after doing so they decide that it is safe and responsible to proceed with the journey, then they have also take appropriate measures to deal with unexpected changes which lead to a failure to complete the journey. In other words, walkers on long walks in exposed areas with changeable weather and poor facilities MUST take full responsibility for their own safety, survival and well being.

I've been on Highlad walks myself and been very surprised at how weather can change, I've been lucky in never suffering from an accident or equipment failure (so far!).

I hope I'm not insulting anyone's intelligence on here, I apologise if I'm missing the interest of the question, but I do hear far too many reports of individuals and groups taking foolish risks - and being unlucky - quite unnecessarily.

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Entwistle - Manchester Victoria to Clitheroe line

You'd be fine there, there's a top-notch pub next to the station, not too far from Darwen and Bromley Cross anyway, you'd not be stranded

Agree about Middlewood though.

TOP TRIVIA - Entwistle was featured as a fictional station called Middlewood in one of Pater Kay's shows!

Imagine anywhere on the West Highland Line, Kyle Line, or Far North Line, or Pwllheli branch would see you stranded, as would Bamford etc!

 

[bradders1983]

You'd be fine there, there's a top-notch pub next to the station, not too far from Darwen and Bromley Cross anyway, you'd not be stranded

Agree about Middlewood though.

TOP TRIVIA - Entwistle was featured as a fictional station called Middlewood in one of Pater Kay's shows!

Imagine anywhere on the West Highland Line, Kyle Line, or Far North Line, or Pwllheli branch would see you stranded, as would Bamford etc!

Your next to a main road at Bamford station!!

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Your next to a main road at Bamford station!!

Bearing in mind, except for on the train, that I have never been in the vicinity of Bamford station, how was I meant to know that? I also thought I said 'like', so I wasn't saying exactly was I?

Hathersage then!

 

[bennorthyork]

I am pleased with the answers so far on this thread insofar as they agree with my view that on going on such a walk you are responsible for you. I met a couple walking from Rannoch to Corrour once with nothing but the clothes they were wearing which were t shirts and trainers on an October day which was sunny at that point. Which stations on the far north and kyle lines are not near a road etc and meet my definition of remote?

 

[scotsman]

I am pleased with the answers so far on this thread insofar as they agree with my view that on going on such a walk you are responsible for you. I met a couple walking from Rannoch to Corrour once with nothing but the clothes they were wearing which were t shirts and trainers on an October day which was sunny at that point. Which stations on the far north and kyle lines are not near a road etc and meet my definition of remote?

Achnashellach, is half a mile up a hill on a dodgy wee track from the main road

Altnabreac is a good few miles off the main road on a wee single track road

 

[bradders1983]

Bearing in mind, except for on the train, that I have never been in the vicinity of Bamford station, how was I meant to know that? I also thought I said 'like', so I wasn't saying exactly was I?

Hathersage then!

Next to the same main road and a nice little village

 

[bradders1983]

I am pleased with the answers so far on this thread insofar as they agree with my view that on going on such a walk you are responsible for you. I met a couple walking from Rannoch to Corrour once with nothing but the clothes they were wearing which were t shirts and trainers on an October day which was sunny at that point. Which stations on the far north and kyle lines are not near a road etc and meet my definition of remote?

Altnabreac is about as remote as you get.

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Next to the same main road and a nice little village

Moving up a bit then, Scotscalder?

 

[bradders1983]

Moving up a bit then, Scotscalder?

Moving up quite a bit then!

Yeah, will give you that one.

A couple of others I can think of are Sugar Loaf and Berney Arms.

 

[bluenoxid]

Imagine the not improbable scenario that someone such as me that enjoys walks between stations catches the sleeper to Rannoch and walks to Corrour planning to catch the train on from there later in the day. Then due to adverse weather all trains are cancelled. There may be an autophone on Corrour station in which case it would be possible to contact Scotrail to confirm trains cancelled. There is no mobile reception there apart from a little Vodafone reception and the youth hostel is shut for most of the Winter albeit open for the month of December. So stranded at a station 12 miles across the hills to a house or road. What if any is the train company's responsibility to help get you out of there? Incidentally when I have done this walk in Winter I have the necessary survival kit to spend a night out in the open. Second question is what other stations are inaccesible by road which I am defining as more than a quarter of a mile from somewhere that you can legally drive your car to?

The next thing you will see will probably be this

http://www.grough.co.uk/images/stories/seaking.jpg

 

[paul1609]

Imagine the not improbable scenario that someone such as me that enjoys walks between stations catches the sleeper to Rannoch and walks to Corrour planning to catch the train on from there later in the day. Then due to adverse weather all trains are cancelled. There may be an autophone on Corrour station in which case it would be possible to contact Scotrail to confirm trains cancelled. There is no mobile reception there apart from a little Vodafone reception and the youth hostel is shut for most of the Winter albeit open for the month of December. So stranded at a station 12 miles across the hills to a house or road. What if any is the train company's responsibility to help get you out of there? Incidentally when I have done this walk in Winter I have the necessary survival kit to spend a night out in the open. Second question is what other stations are inaccesible by road which I am defining as more than a quarter of a mile from somewhere that you can legally drive your car to?

Id suggest that in most rural communities including here in Kent youd be offered basic shelter by the community plus transport back" to where you belong" at the earliest opportunity!

 

[PaulLothian]

Second question is what other stations are inaccesible by road which I am defining as more than a quarter of a mile from somewhere that you can legally drive your car to?

In the far west of Wales rather than the far north of Scotland - Dovey Junction. Unlikely to need full survival gear, but occasionally in the past you might have needed your waterwings

 

[Olympian]

You'd be fine there, there's a top-notch pub next to the station, not too far from Darwen and Bromley Cross anyway, you'd not be stranded

Agree about Middlewood though.

TOP TRIVIA - Entwistle was featured as a fictional station called Middlewood in one of Pater Kay's shows!

You can also drive right up to the entrance of Entwistle station. It's a request stop, but perfectly accessible by road although the road is single track in places.