Church Siding railway station (closed)

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Part of the Brill Tramway

underground-history.co.uk/brill.php - two extracts from:

Church Siding
Church Siding's location was by far the least obvious location to try to find as farming has almost completely obliterated the station's actual location. As well as a siding, Church Siding had a water tower and was also the start of a short branch line which ran towards the town of Kingswood (this never carried passengers). On the day, I failed to find the station's actual location as I simply didn't believe the GPS coordinates I had been given as they placed the station in the middle of a field!
A subsequent visit and some more knowledge made the archaeology of finding the station's location a lot easier. Closely examining the features of the field adjacent to the footpath at this location revealed the clearest physical imprint left by the actual railway line itself on the landscape. Over 70 years since it had been raised, some raised areas clearly revealed the actual course of the railway and its siding and branch to Kingswood.

A small pile of rubble and some bumps in the ground are all the remain today of Church Siding.
The line took a meander through some fields, crossed a minor road (its fourth level crossing) and then a wooded area before arriving at the next station immediately after crossing its fifth and final level crossing.