A brief encounter at Britain’s least-used railway station
Shippea Hill station in Cambridgeshire is used by a grand total of one person a month. It’s certainly not a place that feels full of life today, but it wasn’t always this way
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You don’t see much out the window as the 7.04 from Cambridge to Norwich rattles across the Fens on a dank December morning – fields, mainly, which start to take shape as the sun rises somewhere behind the gloom. Then the train slows down and, out of nowhere, a platform appears. Kash, the conductor, seemed surprised when I had requested the stop. “Oh, this is very rare,” he said before alerting the driver. “Very rare.”
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Source: Guardian Transport
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