A FIELD day – or should that be a station day? – for rail enthusiasts today.

Images captured in the 1970s and 1980s of railway stations which no longer exist, or which certainly no longer look as they did.

The station, or halt, at Ferring, identifiable by its prominent sign included in the photograph, has a quaint feel all of its

own.

Just looking at the net curtains inside the tiny brick building, you can almost hear the whistle of the kettle and the good natured grumble of the stationmaster.

The shot of Hellingly station is worth considering for a moment.

We have allowed ourselves to become quite used to photographs like this in recent years: photographs framed in this way, from a high angle with the subject pictured from above.

In this case it helps us see the relative isolation of the station, and to see how the ribbons of metal criss-crossing our rural countryside serve to connect towns and villages otherwise isolated.

But if such a photograph were to be taken in 2017, it would be snapped from a remote-controlled flying drone.

Whoever took this photograph seems likely to have clambered up on to something reasonably precarious and high in order to achieve the angle he or she wanted.

It doesn’t look like there are other major structures around.

Perhaps readers can enlighten the TimeOut team?

Answers and your own recollections, which are always gratefully received, to timeout@theargus.co.uk.

We also have a photographed which our archivists have entitled Bognor Station.

The site of the present station dates from the opening of the branch line to Bognor from Barnham on June 1, 1864, after several abortive projects to connect the town to the railway system in 1845, 1853 and 1855.

The station suffered two disasters in the 1890s.

It was wrecked in a gale in 1897 and then burned down in 1899.

The present station buildings date from 1902.