Accommodation near stations
 

I've just published an on-line directory of quality accommodation within 15 minutes walk of a UK railway station.

If you'd like to suggest additions to the accommodation shown, please use the contact form on the website.

The emphasis is on quality not price, as the website is used by business and leisure travellers as well as railway enthusiasts.

http://station-stays.co.uk

What a great website - I am sure it will be well used. I checked out a few near stations I know!

Very useful and a must for anyone wishing to stop over for a night or two.
Thanks for the link
Cheers
Phil

Oh and almost forgot, a very warm welcome to the forum DorsetMan. Hope you enjoy.
Cheers
Phil

Many thanks for the welcome, Phil, and the kind remarks about the Accommodation website.

Hello DorsetMan and welcome to the Railway Forum. I think this is a web site that will be well used. I hope some of our members will assist with information about accommodation that they know about or have used.

A/ shortcut saved and synced to my Android

B/ have you proffered this on Facebook - - https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKTrains/ would be a good place to start

Hi Dorsetman,
Two enthusiast's places missing; Stafford and Newport.

Nobody has recommended any decent accommodation within 15 mins walk of those stations!

Swanage Dorsetman?

We have not included Heritage Railways. That's a different ball game.

Tony, you'll be pleased to see we've received recommendations for Stafford http://www.station-stays.co.uk/england-o-z

That's a shame

Although I can see why it would mean longer than single night stays and for some of us need to include other forms of "accommodation" by which I mean Campsites to enable a much longer visit. Might it not be a useful feature to add at a future date??

Yes, campsites near to heritage railways would be a good idea.

There is one near the ELR (with a good view) and one quite close to Weybourne on the NNR.

There is, or was, a big caravan/camping site alongside the SVR but I forget whereabouts.
I was staying in a caravan there many years ago when they had their night gala, magic being woken up by steam trains throughout the night !

You were sleeping when there were steam locos going by? :eek:;)

That site is probably the one just north of Hampton Loade station on the S.V.R. It's run by the Unicorn Inn 01746 861515 will get you details.

This link is to Google maps.:-https://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=52.476...21136&t=h&z=16 Hampton Loade Station at the bottom of the screen.

Regards, 62440.

Thanks for the link and great to see this very useful directory. I've submitted an entry for the Crab Tree which is right beside Shoreham-by-Sea station but with the warning to avoid it on Friday and Saturday nights because of the awful noise from the bar on those nights. It's a nice place to stay on other nights though and a very nice location with an excellent very frequent train service.

Yes, that's the one 62440. Remember now the Unicorn pub on site. Thanks.

Mark456m. Woke to watch the trains go past then fell asleep until the next one went by.

Thanks to all those who have contributed. We now have over 500 quality places to stay:
http://www.station-stays.co.uk

Barry Doe has just told me he'll be reviewing our directory in his Fare Dealer column in the next edition of Rail magazine. It's due out in two weeks time.

We're introducing a section on Heritage Railways soon, so recommendations for accommodation welcomed.

am sure this will be very helpful to a lot of spotters ,thank you.

Ireland now included
 

Stations in Ireland, both North and South, have now been included.

http://station-stays.co.uk

I started my railway career at Wimborne and then Blandford Forum (S&D)
Finished with an office at Waterloo!
Roger