make sure your ride knows...

[bbbr]

When flying into the local major airport they like to say "welcome to Providence". However you are a 12 miles south of that wonderful little city and are instead stuck in Warwick (because who would pay good money to fly to a place called "Warwick"...) until such point in time you can escape.

At least Logan is across the harbor from Boston proper.

[Cia]

Here, Melbourne has at least 4 or 5. One of which is at the end of my street

Rapid has one airport, nine miles east is Ellsworth AFB and thirty or so miles west is the Spearfish airport, which is smaller than Rapid's.

[Kit-Ginevra]

(because who would pay good money to fly to a place called "Warwick"...)

I would.At least then I can get a souvenir that actually has my NAME on...

[greek_jester]

London City as well

Doh! I always forget that one.

[Chromatix]

And Luton. So that's five, not counting heliports:

Heathrow
Gatwick
Stansted
Luton
City

City is actually the smallest of the five airports in the area, and is stuck on a former Docklands site, essentially in the middle of the Thames. There are enough tall buildings around it that aircrew flying into it are required to have special training for an unusually steep approach.

[Kit-Ginevra]

It's when they advertise it as London Luton that the foreigners realize it's a good hour's train ride out of the city.
I'm now racking my brains to work out where scruff is Close to a major boundary, small town that can be confused with a bigger one,but still big enough to have seven stations....

[dalesys]

...I'm now racking my brains to work out where scruff is ...

Directly above the centre of the earth... obviously.

[Chromatix]

There really aren't many places big enough to have seven railway stations, and even fewer small enough to have *only* seven.

Even Carlisle has "only" six railway lines radiating from it (used to be eight, before the Silloth and Waverley lines were closed), and they all converge on *one* station (although there were a huge number of *goods* stations until the late 60s, roughly one per railway). The other notable border-post on the Scottish border is Berwick-upon-Tweed, which could be confused with several other Berwicks but has only one station.

Other possibilities include Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, but that's rather more than an hour away from Newcastle-upon-Tyne by any reasonable mode of transport. I'm also not sure that it's terribly close to the Welsh border.

[greek_jester]

And Luton. So that's five...

Having previously lived in Luton (and escaped! W00T!), I don't count it as it's geographically in another town. I was only listing those within the physical boundaries of London itself.


Of course now I'm wondering which town/city in the world has the largest number of airports within its geographical borders...

[kmariem]

Not including military bases and podunk airports, the Washington, DC area has three: Dulles, Reagan, and BWI

[Chromatix]

Well, Gatwick is halfway to Brighton. I find it hard to believe that it's genuinely in London, but it justifies being called a London airport because there is good, direct transport to the city centre.

Stansted is also quite some distance out, in roughly the opposite direction.

[prjkt]

Tullamarine, Essendon, Avalon and Moorabin.

And Tooradin ( just outside of Melbourne proper, but still probably a little closer than Avalon)

Moorabbin airport is actually at the end of my street

[Jarlaxle]

When flying into the local major airport they like to say "welcome to Providence". However you are a 12 miles south of that wonderful little city and are instead stuck in Warwick (because who would pay good money to fly to a place called "Warwick"...) until such point in time you can escape.

At least Logan is across the harbor from Boston proper.

And yet, the airport code for Greene is "PVD". Then again...New Hampshire's Manchester-Boston Regional is actually in...Bedford.

At least Logan is actually in Boston. (Eastie is still Boston...)