There was a branch line running along the side of my paddock and in WW2 what is now my front room was part of a barn which was used as a pillbox to cover the line which ran from Amble up to Acklington RAF base.
Couple of years ago I wanted to sell our place and buy Norham railway station on the line that ran from Berwick to Coldstream but the wife would not let me.
There was a cottage , station masters house, booking office and waiting room, length of platform , half a railway bridge , a large paddock, a signal box and best of all a rather large and subtantial engine shed and a large goods shed .
In the end it went for £325,000
http://media.rightmove.co.uk/77k/76639/41131213/76639_Station_DOC_00_0000.pdf