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Station Road c1960 Ainsdale was a failed attempt by Charles Webb to create an up-market residen- tial area close to Birkdale.

Over the Town Bridge, which forms the old county boundary, the power station has been replaced with a shopping centre.

Road and rail links (it has two railway stations) make it ideal commuter country. A roundabout has replaced what was once the village square.

Built of cast-iron, the bridge was opened in 1863 and improved the city by giving direct access to the original railway station, which was situated within the city walls.

Askrigg station is on the North Eastern Railway route between Northallerton and a conection with the Midland Railway at Hawes.

The railway station is on the Midland line from Bradford to Skipton. The railway station was opened in 1856. Titus Salt's Mill, some six storeys high, sits alongside the line.

It stands in extensive grounds just off Easemore Road, an easy walk from several Redditch neighbourhoods and from the bus and train stations. A Sixth Form Centre shares the same site.

Note the quaint petrol station on the right. Also on the right is the arched coach entrance to the George Hotel.

Opened in June 1860, the Town Hall cost £3,505 to build, and provided space for the County Police Station, with cells and an exercise yard, a courtroom and council offices.

Today it overlooks the railway station, whose car park we can see here.

Beyond and to the left is the lifeboat station, built in 1903 and still in use for the inshore rescue boat and as a visitor centre for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

The village's surroundings, however, have not been so lucky, with East Midlands Airport, built in the 1960s, a famous motor-racing circuit and a Trentside power station, all close by.

Coal from Kellingley Colliery also travelled this route up to the power station, which has been on the riverside since 1927.

Thanks to a railway station providing train services to London, Brockenhurst began to expand during the second half of the 19th century and continued to develop in the 20th century, establishing itself

Wider car ownership and a busy railway station helped Sidmouth develop as a holiday resort in the 20th century.

The railway station by the arrival point is little altered from when it was first opened by the Furness Railway Company.

Both public house and petrol station prospered with the increasing volume of traffic on a road that the Edwardian topographer Sir Frederick Treves had described as 'a delightful walk'.

There is no promenade yet, only the railway embankment; access to the beach was generally from a point near the station out of sight to the right.

The Grange station starting signal is visible on the right. Immediately to its left is the Victoria Hall on Main Street.

The building on the right of this picture was built as the village police station in 1915, and contained a cell.

So perhaps it is appropriate that its classically-styled railway station might almost have been transported here direct from France.

To the left can be seen the two long windows of the surviving Blue Boar on the corner of Dear Hay Lane, but behind to the right is the Police Station, which was destroyed by fire in the

Westborough is one of the main thoroughfares linking the North Eastern Railway station and the town.

Westborough is one of the main thoroughfares linking the North Eastern Railway station and the town.