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The Guardian - UK
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Which is the biggest English football club without a train station nearby?

Arsenal fans cheering from a train carriage window in 1932 as they leave Euston in London, on their way to Birmingham for a match against Aston Villa, which they would lose 5-3.
Arsenal fans cheering from a train carriage window in 1932 as they leave Euston in London, on their way to Birmingham for a match against Aston Villa, which they would lose 5-3. Photograph: Douglas Miller/Getty Images

“With the Liverpool v Leeds game having been rescheduled for a time when the last train back to Leeds leaves 20 minutes into the second half, what is the biggest club without a viable train station in the vicinity?” tweeted The Jet Van Set.

Let’s start with a chillingly comprehensive answer from one of our readers. “As a football fan and a railways nerd, this was the perfect question for me,” writes Athena Blight. “For the sake of argument, I’m looking only at clubs in the English league.

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