Cycle Rack and Southend Station
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Cycle Rack and Southend Station
Image: © Glyn Baker Taken: 30 Sep 2023
If you go to Scandinavia or the low countries there would be facilities for hundreds of bicycles outside a terminal railway station. On a visit to Copenhagen a few years ago I was amazed to see many thousands of cycles outside the main station, most of them unlocked. When I asked a local "don't they get stolen?" the reply was "nobody would leave a decent cycle by the station". I responded "In the UK 100s would be taken just for the scrap value however wrecked they were.". The reason the station looks so quiet can be seen at Image
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Image Location
Latitude
51.79356
Longitude
1.153771