Which termini / how many have you visited?

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[grahame]

Harwich Town?

How the *** have I lost that one ... it's in the list I submitted to the database engine ... investigating. 

Missing comma in the database instructions. I miskeyed something as I was setting that up and had to correct that specific line - a one off action - so it should not effect other places.  No doubt an error message was generated as I ran the SQL but I overlooked it in hundreds of lines of logging generated.

Code:

insert into smf_poll_choices values (140,53,"Gunnislake",0);
insert into smf_poll_choices values (140,54,"Hadfield",0);
insert into smf_poll_choices values (140,55 "Harwich Town",0);
insert into smf_poll_choices values (140,56,"Hayes",0);

Edit / update.  Harwich Town HAS now appeared in the list in order to correct a damaged database - it will avoid problems later on if I run an y analysis of votes / ensure backups of polls are clean, etc.  But we will need to treat the vote for Harwich Town as being understated.

[GBM]

A vote for missing Kingswear please.
Also a vote for the missing Dartmouth which had a booking office but never a railway.
Went to school in steam/DMU^▸ (Diesel Multiple Unit) days between Kingswear and Churston.
Quite often if the main line went missing, the Brixham DMU would be pressed into service to return is US (as in pupils) back to Kingswear 

Edit to change is to us - apologies

[grahame]

A vote for missing Kingswear please.

Vote "morally" accepted - however, we are looking at current National Rail termini in this poll.  Or are you following up on my "10 more you would like to see" and "ten that really should be through stations"?  May be worth doing a further poll / study at a later date for gone and heritage stations / lines.

As well as Kingswear, other contenders in our area would be Swanage, Bodmin, Minehead and Portishead; contenders to no longer be termini would be Paignton and Bere Alston.

[PhilWakely]

A vote for missing Kingswear please.

Vote "morally" accepted - however, we are looking at current National Rail termini in this poll.  Or are you following up on my "10 more you would like to see" and "ten that really should be through stations"?  May be worth doing a further poll / study at a later date for gone and heritage stations / lines.

As well as Kingswear, other contenders in our area would be Swanage, Bodmin, Minehead and Portishead; contenders to no longer be termini would be Paignton and Bere Alston.

Okehampton  - which does have a National Rail service, albeit restricted ?

[grahame]

Okehampton  - which does have a National Rail service, albeit restricted ?

Ah yes ... I added that, took it away ... hummed and hah-ed.   Also wondered about Corfe Castle and Bishop's Lydeard.  Other "cases" I considered were Clitheroe and Gainsborough Central which are termini on most days of the week, and I remembered just in time that a single service each day runs northwards from Corby.  Kirby and Ormskirk were considered as dual termini, with two lines both terminating there ... but the "ongoing rail connection" test ruled them out, as it did for Liverpool Lime Street and most London termini, and the two Glasgow main stations.  Then there is Chathill.

Looking to the future, I personally would like to see Okehampton as a daily terminus only on a temporary basis until the service runs through.

[brooklea]

112 from the list; so plenty more to visit when we?re allowed to....

Chingford, Rose Hill Marple and Lowestoft all have claims to be included as well I think?

[grahame]

112 from the list; so plenty more to visit when we?re allowed to....

Chingford, Rose Hill Marple and Lowestoft all have claims to be included as well I think?

Darn it - I should not have done that in the middle of the night.  Chingford and Lowestoft failed to make it from brain to keyboard.  Rose Hill Marple had missed out brain completely at the time I was writing the list up.

[Robin Summerhill]

I scored 103 and thought I was welll travelled until I saw some of the other posters results.

So now I know Im not as well travelled as I thought I was 

[CyclingSid]

Not many, but then realised there were some I had missed. Done most of the ones in my"corner" of the country. Likewise with Uckfield was not a terminus when I last used it.

When I go to Lymington nowadays the other half asks why is it platform 1 when there is only one platform, the underlying question being why a platform number. My guess answer is, so the computer works.

[TonyN]

115 for me
Plus Chingford, Rose Hill Marple, Lowestoft, Hampton Court and Oakhampton.

Most of the missing ones are in Scotland I was fairly light on Scotland anyway but those crafty Scots have opened quite a few since I was last north of the Border in about 1997.

[eightf48544]

Uckfield before it was a terminus on a London Bridge Brighton with a 33.

[JayMac]

94 from the list. Plus Clitheroe, Lowestoft and Hampton Court.

And an honourable mention for the most recently closed terminus, Newhaven Marine, which officially closed in October 2020. I ticked it off in 2004 when it still had its Parliamentary train service.

Also seasonal National Rail services to Okehampton and Corfe Castle.

[rogerw]

I can add the omitted ones to my list plus seasonal to Corfe Castle and Okehampton

[Zoe]

Only seven which are on the list but I have visited two which are now closed:  North Woolwich and Tilbury Riverside.

[grahame]

There are so many interesting cases ... fascinating the way this thread has run today. I'm going to close the poll in 24 hours from now and plot the results onto a map.

Only seven which are on the list but I have visited two which are now closed:  North Woolwich and Tilbury Riverside.

Ah yes ... I knew those two too. Day out from Petts Wood in Southend.  There was a wonderful ticket marketed for the run - change at Hither Green, Dartford, Gravesend (walk to Pier), Tilbury Riverside and Pitsea.  Woolwich was the 161A bus followed by a day riding the ferry; looked in at North Woolwich station but never took the train beyond.