Doddy Cross station

[Busaholic]

In the course of a mildly entertaining article in the Telegraph Magazine of 7/2/15 the writer Andrew Barrow, describing his trip with his son on Britain's longest train journey from Aberdeen to Penzance, writes 'sadly we don't stop at the amusing-sounding Doddy Cross station'. From where this occurs in the text it infers it is in Cornwall, somewhere east of Bodmin Parkway, and I've traced a place of that name on the internet, near Liskeard. Why should he have thought there is a station there? Has there ever been, or plans for one?
Any observations welcome.

 

[tsr]

The article has parts written in a pretty tongue-in-cheek way, IMO, so I suppose it could be that the author wished that there was a station there for its amusing name, and at the same time called it a station to make people think twice or do exactly what we've done as those interested in railways, and gone to frantically look it up!

In this case, maybe there were once rail facilities in the area, but I'm not particularly an expert on that area of the rail network, and so I have to resort to "Google says no"!

 

[edwin_m]

Maybe all those hours sat on a Voyager is inducing hallucinations?

 

[Sir Felix Pole]

Doublebois? - original Cornwall Railway station opened 1859 closed 1964. Local pronunciation 'Double Boys' rather than as one might think in French!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Doddycross is a very small hamlet, with a miniscule population, in the Caradon district of south-east Cornwall. The nearest settlement of note is Menheniot, about 1.5 miles away, which still has an existing railway station.