A view of Stamford station building taken from the western

end. As it was a Sunday morning, it was very quiet with nobody about apart from the signalman in the box some distance behind where I am standing. Santon Wood’s mock Tudor design is now Grade 2 listed and looks very much as is seen here even down to its weathervane atop the conical turret that still bears the initials of the Syston & Peterborough Railway. In more recent years the station housed Robert Humm’s bookshop that specialised in rare and out-of-print railway books. I know that this bookshop is celebrated by railway enthusiasts and others alike but after visiting with my son I have to say what a rude and ignorant man the owner was asking my son not to touch the books. Has he no idea about how two nurture the love for books in the young? We promptly left the book open on a chair, and walked out of the shop with me not spending the cash that I had ready in my back pocket; what a way to run a business. Incidentally, in 2016 the bookshop vacated the station site so it no longer sullies a visit to the fine station.