Classic British Flight Sim

Slightly at a tangent here...... but last night, I came across this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_railway_station

In another webcrawling session...... a station without trains!! (Never heard of that before!)... anyway...... the reason for posting here......

was there/is there any such 'airport' where the terminal building is not 'near' the runway?????

Just seems a 'British' oddity if that makes sense (probably not!!)

Cheers Jim -
I will need to look in my railway library for the answer, but I would say the original Act of Parliament to build the railway, by authorising a station at Dartmouth, put a legal obligation on the company to build one, and the ferry terminal was the result. There were lots of similar shenannigans in the early railway days.

Reminds me of a tale I heard from an old mate who worked on the NSW railways. In far west NSW, on the line to Broken Hill, there is a station named Ivanhoe, serving the town of that name. This is country where it is a forty minute drive to your front gate, and another hour-and-a-half to get to the shops. Sometime in the 1950s, in century heat, the weekly train arrived and out got a dapper little bloke in a brown paper suit and polkadot bow-tie. As the guard handed down his suitcase of samples, the salesman asked "Where's the town?"
"It's over that way"
Sure enough, just visible through the heat haze and shimmering mirages, a pub and a few houses could be seen at a couple of miles' distance across the plain.
"Geez, why did they build the station so far from the town?"
"Well, cobber, they probably wanted to have it near the railway line"...

Bye for now CHEERS
MikeW

emfrat wrote: "Geez, why did they build the station so far from the town?"
"Well, cobber, they probably wanted to have it near the railway line"...

Bye for now CHEERS
MikeW

Love it!!!

"Tornado" came in there a few days ago...It is my nearest railway station but if I actually want to go anywhere by train I use Totnes :flying: