paths

and as i walked up to the train for the return journey i saw that there was a path running off the platform, over a couple of train tracks to a smallish gate that gives out directly onto the heath. with a forbidding "do not pass this point ... liable for prosecution" sign at the platform edge. Now i don't need that path to get to the heath, the way i go now is a little out of the way but it gets me there, and i guess i'm not likely to risk following that path just for a shortcut, but i LOVE finding paths like that, even if i never walk it, just knowing that it's there...

aerial photo of the station on which you can just see the crossing over the tracks to the heath