The Journey Starts and Ends at Kingswood Station, England
We lived in Kingswood, Surrey, England 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!
Why is it that the journey home so often feels like an uphill battle?
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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!
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Hi,
What a beautiful building for a train station, and the hill sounds like it was a journey all by itself. 😀
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It really was a beautiful walk to the train station, past all sorts of quaint English houses.
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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
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The imaginary train I would love to ride is Hogwarts Express.
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I couldn’t tell it was a train building, how beautiful. 15 minutes uphill is a long walking journey.
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It certainly doesn’t look like a train station, does it!
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Beautiful train station and photo.
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Thanks pensioner. You probably have seen lots of beautiful train stations.
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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.
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Thanks Amanda!
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Gorgeous building : )
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Canada is such a new country – it was wonderful to see all the beautiful old buildings in the UK.
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Historical architecture is amazing. : )
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it’s a really beautiful station. Nicely captured.
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Welcome to my blog Arindam – Glad you liked the train station.
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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. 🙂
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I spent a lot of time ‘rambling’ in the UK – so many great places to walk, just outside my door!
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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!
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Yes, the umbrella. We rarely went anywhere without one!
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I always aromatically the notion of train travel. Maybe it’s because of beautiful stations like the one you portray… 🙂
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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.
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