Merged topic - High Point Village, Hayes and Harlington

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[SByers]

The entrance to the southern car park is not visible nor obvious. It is not sign-posted. Station Parade is a direct route to / from the town centre.

[chrisr_75]

The entrance to the southern car park is not visible nor obvious. It is not sign-posted. Station Parade is a direct route to / from the town centre.

It took me 30 seconds to find it on Google Maps. Carry on southbound over the bridge (passing the main station entrance), turn first left, first left again and you're there. Easy peasy! Car park appears to be accessible via Platform 1.

This is always a useful place to find the information you appear to require:

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/HAY/details.aspx

[Surrey 455]

The entrance to the southern car park is not visible nor obvious. It is not sign-posted. Station Parade is a direct route to / from the town centre.

It took me 30 seconds to find it on Google Maps. Carry on southbound over the bridge (passing the main station entrance), turn first left, first left again and you're there. Easy peasy! Car park appears to be accessible via Platform 1.

This is always a useful place to find the information you appear to require:

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/HAY/details.aspx

The trouble is most people know where the old and new entrances to the station are and it would not occur to them to take a few minutes detour down Nestles Avenue into the station car park, passing the driving test centre (where I failed then passed my driving test). Can you still access the station from the old entrance on the bridge? I didn't feel particularly safe waiting for a bus there at night in recent years and would walk on to Fairey Corner.

[SByers]

The upper entrance to Hayes Station is a 'no-go' area after the commuters have gone - say after 19.00 Aggressive beggars  male and female - are a frequent problem - they don't just sit there but approach folks for cash. We have had at least one near fatal stabbing at the bus stop. Gobs of chewing gum litter the pavement. Once I called the police due to blood stains all over the pavement. But when they arrived they said that it was kava gobbed out by some unsocial male. Kava is illegal but all the grocers shops sell it.

This whole area is a squalid sh$thole, not made any better by the permanent and abandoned Crossrail works. Even the station name has been removed at the front.

[SByers]

Failing any interest from Hillingdon Council, and not even John MacDonnell (Lab) the local MP^▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post (a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London), depending on context), maybe his will do the trick:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4829350/Cowboy-firms-banned-doling-100-fines.html