Walking from Abingdon Junction to Radley

[Nicholas43]

The diary of William Wood records on several occasions in the 1850s that he got a train to Abingdon Junction (not Abingdon) and then walked to Radley College. However, MacDermot's History says that the platforms at the junction were 'never a station in the ordinary sense of the word and did not appear in the public timetables'. Wood also records (19 January 1856) that when his train was blocked by a broken down coal train just outside Brentwood he 'got out and walked on the line into the station'.
At Abingdon Junction, if Wood just walked off beside the tracks towards Radley, were there staff who would have expostulated? Or was there only the guard of the train to Abingdon, who either didn't notice, or didn't care?

 

[WesternLancer]

The diary of William Wood records on several occasions in the 1850s that he got a train to Abingdon Junction (not Abingdon) and then walked to Radley College. However, MacDermot's History says that the platforms at the junction were 'never a station in the ordinary sense of the word and did not appear in the public timetables'. Wood also records (19 January 1856) that when his train was blocked by a broken down coal train just outside Brentwood he 'got out and walked on the line into the station'.
At Abingdon Junction, if Wood just walked off beside the tracks towards Radley, were there staff who would have expostulated? Or was there only the guard of the train to Abingdon, who either didn't notice, or didn't care?

would the sort of thing that happened on stage coaches be accepted as the norm - ie get off and walk at your own risk if you felt able to do so? are their many records of people killed on the perm way from those days. They must exist but maybe in civil/parish records, not railway records maybe. Was it considered 'trespassing' in the modern sense? Lines presumably were fenced even then. Did anyone much care?