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There's huge variation, though. London to Oxford? A delight. London to Norwich? Survival horror. And I hear that up North it's positively Lovecraftian.

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Yes, Northern R'Lyeh closed many of their routes recently, which caused unknowable horror to descend over Innsmouth (among others on local stopping lines).

I know that HN generally frowns on "me too" or other Reddit-like comments or replies, but I feel a deep (ones) need to reply to this.

Your comment made me very happy, I laughed and snorted, and I'm glad I wasn't drinking my coffee at the time I read it. Thank you for writing it, you are awesome.

Now I'm thinking of a Cult of Cthulhu who design railway depots as an homage to their unknowably evil master, with junctions and lines as a representation of its tentacles and body.

If you like that, Good Omens (the series at least; not read the book) has a bit where it is suggested the M25 is effectively the shape of a demonic curse, designed to cause misery to everyone traveling on it.

Supernatural has a giant pentagram made out of railway lines:

http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/Devil%27s_Gate_in_Wyoming

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