<p>This illustrates why I gave up commuting by  rail. It's lovely in the summer, but the trains were often unreliable in the winter and would either not run or not stop. 
</p><p>In the days before mobile phones and no staff or payphone on the station, it was infuriating just to have to stand in the unheated shelter (the station building was not open) waiting and hoping...
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The railings weren't there in my day. You used to walk onto the platform here and turn left to head into the shelter. Nowadays it looks like you enter this platform at the far side of the station building.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/56553246@N00">Steve Parker</a> from Ash Vale, UK
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/56553246@N00/1011957419/">Train passing through</a>