[Sussex] Directions

[Mark Harrison]

Considering the track record of governments (of any colour) in actually
delivering, well anything, over the last few hundred years, I am constantly
amazed at the competence that otherwise intelligent people ascribe to their
ability to cover up alien landings and cow mutilations.

Seriously, though. In "time gone by" [TM], then a walk of a mile or two was
seen as normal. My father had a 2.5 mile trip to school (on foot) from age
7, and that was in London, not a rural area. Likewise, my mother-in-law had
about a 2 mile walk to church. If you consider that the historical role of
church bells was to tell people it was time to leave for church (in the days
before clocks were available to the average person), and that bells
typically rang for at least half and hour, that puts things into
perspective.

I understand that it was felt politic to build the railways where there was
empty land, rather than bulldozing through the outskirts of the villages so
that the stations would be closer to the centres :-)

Mark


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoff Teale" <gteale at cmedltd.com>
To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 9:46 AM
Subject: RE: [Sussex] Directions


> On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 09:03 +0000, Iain Stevenson wrote:
> > There isn't one!  Warnham Station is probably about 0.5-0.75 miles away
> > from Warnham village.  How it got to be so far from the centre I do not
> > know.  As Geoff pointed out it's probably nearer the brickworks - which
I
> > guess means the station may have been built more to support local farms
and
> > industry than the village.
>
> >From where I am sitting I can see the railway line, there are very few
> trains, but every so often little orange men clamber up from the sidings
> and do strange things in the surrounding fields.
>
> I think the real reason Warnam station is so far from Warnam is that
> some kind of alien landing happened here in the 1940's and the station
> is merely a cover-up for secret government operations.
>
> There is an alternative theory that says that Network Rail are busy
> doing engineering work to improve the standard of the rail network in
> the UK, but I discount this out of hand.  It is important to apply
> Occums razor and keep a grasp on reality.