Weekly Photo Challenge: Journey
We lived in Kingswood, Surrey, UK for two years. Many of our journeys began with the walk down to this building, the Kingswood Train Station. When I say down, I mean it was a 10 minute downhill walk that felt like a 15 minute uphill battle on the trip home at the end of the day. When it was raining, it became a 20 minute skin drenching, umbrella breaking endurance run.
The Kingswood Station was the third last stop on the line, so the only direction we ever went was into London. What a wonderful city it is! And how could it not be so when we started our journey from such a beautiful looking little train station!
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Why is it that the journey home so often feels like an uphill battle?
Your comment makes me think of a trip we made to San Francisco where it seemed like every direction we walked was uphill. There didn’t seem to be any downhills ever!
Hi,
What a beautiful building for a train station, and the hill sounds like it was a journey all by itself.
It really was a beautiful walk to the train station, past all sorts of quaint English houses.
I love the train of my youth and all the trains of my imagination. Thanks for showing me a great place to start todays travels. All joy in “All Aboard!” HF
The imaginary train I would love to ride is Hogwarts Express.
I couldn’t tell it was a train building, how beautiful. 15 minutes uphill is a long walking journey.
It certainly doesn’t look like a train station, does it!
Beautiful train station and photo.
Thanks pensioner. You probably have seen lots of beautiful train stations.
After I saw the feather photo I wanted to hold the picture and think it about it before I read your comments. Happy to know I was right that it was a UK style building. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Amanda!
Gorgeous building : )
Canada is such a new country – it was wonderful to see all the beautiful old buildings in the UK.
Historical architecture is amazing. : )
it’s a really beautiful station. Nicely captured.
Welcome to my blog Arindam – Glad you liked the train station.
What a handsome old Train stop. Your walks sound heart pounding.
But they also sound like a great way to get excericise and see beautiful scenery. Great photo for the challenge. 
I spent a lot of time ‘rambling’ in the UK – so many great places to walk, just outside my door!
I’m wearing a bowler hat and clutching an umbrella here– I really got into this post!!
Beautiful building and cool reminiscence… thanks for sharing, Margie!
Yes, the umbrella. We rarely went anywhere without one!
I always aromatically the notion of train travel. Maybe it’s because of beautiful stations like the one you portray…
It was nice to have a train station so close. England is a country that depends on trains for transportation, and has for a long time.