Reading-Waterloo train at Longcross - ghost station?

A rare event. A train stops at Longcross. An even rarer event is a passenger boarding. Longcross is between Sunningdale and Virginia Water on the Reading to Waterloo line.

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• train
• rail
• travel
• Longcross
• station
• platform
• Berkshire
• ghost
• empty
• primeval

[mrswheel]

In the '50s I remember its being called 'Longcross Halt" , and spoken of in the vernacular as '"Longcros-shault". The Reading (South) to Waterloo would always stop there although even then I wasn't aware of anyone getting off or on!

[KINGANDCASTLE]

@mrswheel Thats what happens when the adjacent army barracks say they want the station kept open

[Prhizzm]

Passing through Longcross by train one often fails to notice a station let alone people due to the long stretch of dense woodland which surrounds the track. What's more surprising is to have a train stop here and seeing passengers get off. Being near Virginia Water and with the weird goings on in that end of the woods, it's one place to stay clear of especially at night.

[KINGANDCASTLE]

@Prhizzm Weird goings on? What are they?

[Critchy39]

I remember stopping through there on a train once.

It was a freezing cold evening in febuary , and when we stopped this old man with pipe and walking stick got on. Just one old man on the station on his own in the dark. I don't know why, but it haunted me lol

Thats why i searched this, cause sometimes when i randomly wander off in thought on the train i remember that.

[KINGANDCASTLE]

He probably came from the golf course or the film studios.

[darthbandon10]

This line only has its accessibility going for it. Never understood the "lets skip nearly every London station" then stop at almost everything after that...

As for cost, well a couple of quid for a faster service is a no brainer, considering how expensive the SE is anyway.

[KINGANDCASTLE]

Cadge a lift to the golf course next door, or watch Primeval which is sometimes filmed in the adjacent woods.

[9mmFilms]

Not when you have no money it isnt lol, plus woking (where I live) apparently has no trains going through longcross.

[KINGANDCASTLE]

Easiest access is by train!