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Hest Bank - Station
This is Station Road.... the main village street. At the bottom is the Hest Bank station level crossing. The station went many years ago and was made famous due to a massive railway crash ( details at the bottom ). Today apart from the access to the shore and a few houses its simply a level crossing for the Westcoast main line.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slyne-with-Hest
"In 1965 this originally coastal village was the scene of a rail accident on 20 May when a sleeper train from London Euston bound for Glasgow left the rails at 70 mph and collided with the Hest Bank station buildings. No one was seriously injured, although from that time Hest Bank has ceased to serve as a passenger station, its railside platform consequently now lying buried in undergrowth."
Hest Bank - Station
This is Station Road.... the main village street. At the bottom is the Hest Bank station level crossing. The station went many years ago and was made famous due to a massive railway crash ( details at the bottom ). Today apart from the access to the shore and a few houses its simply a level crossing for the Westcoast main line.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slyne-with-Hest
"In 1965 this originally coastal village was the scene of a rail accident on 20 May when a sleeper train from London Euston bound for Glasgow left the rails at 70 mph and collided with the Hest Bank station buildings. No one was seriously injured, although from that time Hest Bank has ceased to serve as a passenger station, its railside platform consequently now lying buried in undergrowth."