Cranbrook railway station boasts a 150-space parking area. At lunchtime today there was a grand total of 13 cars and three people waiting on a windswept platform.
An off-peak return journey to Exeter is only £3.50 so it might well be worth using the station for park and ride.
The station is surrounded by sad, boggy ground, part of which appears to be some kind of park but is mostly very big puddles as several very large storm drains under the approach road to the station discharge their muddy water on it.
Still, it might be better in summer, if summer isn’t too wet or windy.
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Let us not forget that the planners have decided that a second station is needed for Cranbrook.
So I guess that means 300 parking spaces for 13 cars, and 3 people spread across two separate stations.
Of course, a single measurement at one instant on one day in one season can only be indicative and is not really sufficient to draw firm conclusions about usage. It would be interesting to see some official statistics about usage e.g. from the railway company, based on car-parking revenue etc.
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