Bardon Mill, on the Hadrian's Wall Country line between Carlisle and Newcastle was the first stop of the 2015 station collecting holiday. Although no longer anything to do with the railway, the station still has a station building:

It also has this long building on the approach to the station entrance:

The entrance to the station:

From the entrance we look east at both platforms, 1 on the left and 2 on the right:

A wooden sign points walkers towards Hadrian's Wall:

The shelter on platform 1 is a brick and stone building, but it clearly no longer has its original roof and front:

Indeed there are no comforts beside shelter in the shelter at all:

At the eastern end of platform 1 looking east along the line:

Looking west along both platforms:

The eastern end of platform 1 provides a second entrance to the station. Looking west up at platform 1:

From the path leading east from the end of platform 1, looking at the semaphore signals that still control the line:

The gate at the end of the path leading to the station, looking west:

Back at the other end of platform 1, looking westwards:

A barrow crossing allows access to platform 2 opposite:

And in the distance to the west you can see the signalbox:

The ramp up to platform 2 from the barrow crossing:

The shelter on platform 2 is modern and plasticky but does at least have seats!

Bardon Mill is (like many stations on Merseyside) a station which knows what it is for. Sadly it transpires almost all stations on this line are for the same thing: