Beeching, Before and After

[steepholm]

Back when your granny was a wee lass, there was a small railway station at Ashley Hill in Bristol, just where Ashley Down meets Purdown, and in the shadow of the Muller orphanages. It looked like this:

Comments

[puddleshark]

"Rail station"? *shudders*

They missed a trick with that bench. People might still sit on it. Instead of little perforations, they should have had little bumps - carefully gauged to be only slightly uncomfortable.

[steepholm]

Good idea! Or it could give way at irregular intervals, thus introducing an exciting element of jeopardy.

[puddleshark]

Heh!