Craven Arms station in rural Shropshire is very rarely served by trains with more than two carriages, despite the platforms being much longer than this. To aid the unfamiliar travellers <smallcaps>trains stop here</smallcaps> has been painted on the platform edge. <br>
This ascertation certainly proved true on my first visit to this station in the late summer of 2005 - the train I was on from Wilmslow to Cardiff Central waited here for nearly an hour and a half - ostensibly due to asbestos being discovered in a signal box controling the gates to a level crossing about 5 miles south of here.
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Photo by <a href="mailto:cmckenna@sucs.org?subject=rail-photo at railfaneurope.net">Chris McKenna</a> 17/12/2005.<br>
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