Hampton Court

CRS Code	HMC
Collected date	16/08/04

Hampton Court is just within the boundary of where you can get to with a Travelcard, so I visited it one fairly hot Summer's day. Although it's obviously much reduced from its former glory, it still retains some of its grandeur in the retaining wall.

Sadly, the station building looks rather shabbier from the front, with its windows boarded up:

The station concourse is a welcoming place, with numerous baskets of flowers and a coffee stall. When I visited, a tramp tried to do the station staff a favour by yelling `Oi, there's a camera operator' but the staff were fortunately completely uninterested.

Where once was obviously another track and platform is now the station car park, and here a platform is no longer used for trains, although it still houses a bicycle rack:

The entrance to the station concourse is a small gate to facilitate ticket checks:

After a coffee and a stroll by the river, I decided to walk to nearby Thames Ditton. On the way I got this shot of the far end Hampton Court's lengthy platforms:

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