There is also a large housing estate going up (when the developer isn't going bust).
It's a long pier, particularly in the wind and the rain.
One time I walked from Lister hospital to Stevenage, got the train to Hitchin and then walked from there to where I was staying. I was surprised by the number of people who decanted at Hitchin considering it was past midnight, maybe like 40 or 50 people got off a strangely busy train. But perhaps the London commuter crowd are a bit different to the locals.
Since the majority of stations that used to let vehicles in no longer do, the number of people that haven’t walked (across the pavement) to any station by that measure is near zero (interchange figures excepted).
For those on foot, New Pudsey station essentially serves Farsley, not Pudsey. It's pretty much unwalkable from Pudsey due to the distance, but it's right on the edge of Farsley, a popular Leeds suburb. I've departed on foot and seen large numbers of other people do the same.
Unless there is a revenue block at Eastleigh
Castle Cary similar. There is a pavement about 18" wide alongside a long stretch of unlit A road, you could never let children go along there to/from school in winter. No houses around. Big car park.
Off-topic, but does the cinema (etc) car park still have more restrictions when Stevenage are playing at home? Haven't used that car park since we got stung by this a few years ago - from memory it was 3 hours free parking normally but only an hour on home match days. How any non-football fan (hello!) especially one from out the area (hello hello!) could possibly know when the local team are playing at home, I do not know!
I met a business from right down towards Penzance where staff actually railheaded to Tivvy Parkway when going to London, they said it was notably quicker, better choice of trains, and the last Penzance train from Paddington is 1800, which interrupted some afternoon business meetings, where the last to Tivvy was 3 hours later.
It does, and it's quite a pleasant walk, I used it for many years when working at Crawley Industrial Estate. Hardly "tranquil" though, right underneath the main flight path.
Both of these have lots of foot traffic.
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When the post war New Towns were being developed provision of rail services was well down the priority list (they were supposed to be self contained, not commuter towns). Thus Stevenage had only the old station serving the original settlement until the seventies, Basildon didn't have a station at all until the seventies, and the stations at Hemel Hempstead and Harlow were located well away from both the town centres and most residential development.
I have walked there before when interchanging between Yeovil Pen Mill and Yeovil Junction, partly using footpaths and partly using country lanes - it was quite scenic but not very well-signed and not suitable for use after dark.
I have also walked from this station, to access the Grand Western Canal and walk to Tiverton, but I agree this is likely to be a minority pursuit.
Whilst I agree that no doubt the majority of passengers will probably drive to/from the Station for their trains, I'd be surprised if there isn't at least a small proportion who walk there given it's proximity to the housing estate built close to the Station.
