GC2M7EH Tees-side, Teesside or Durham Tees Valley? (Traditional Cache) in North East England, United Kingdom created by Lisaandrachel

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A cache by Lisaandrachel Message this owner

Hidden : 1/9/2011

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Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Quick cache and dash - you can pull in beside cache.

PLEASE RE-HIDE WELL!

Originally meant to be planted at Teesside Airport Railway station to highlight it's existence. We found it an absolute nightmare to get to and, as you can imagine, hard to park the car anywhere without the airport *heavies* arriving!

According to National Rail stats in 2008/09 only 46 travellers used the station - Can we get more logs on this cache than the station gets travellers?

The airport changed its name in 2004; however, the station name remained unchanged. In 2007 Northern Rail erected new signs reading Teesside Airport, replacing older signs which had used a hyphen however National Rail still lists the station as Tees-side Airport. This has led to it not being clear whether the official station name contains the hyphen or not.

On Saturday 24 October 2009, a group of 26 people travelled to and from the airport station on the only scheduled service, to highlight the station's existence and its poor rail service, and to persuade rail authorities to move it 500 metres closer to the airport terminal.

The station was featured on 27th October 2010 in the BBC Radio 4 programme "The Ghost Trains of Old England" which mentioned the campaign and the fact that the station has a working payphone. It was also suggested that a large proportion of the tickets sold for this station are bought by collectors who wish to own tickets with rare destinations, and do not necessarily travel.

Wheelchair accessible, but may need help actually retrieving cache.

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