Trivia: which urban local authority has the most stations?

[urbophile]

I mean town or city defined by local authority area, at the level of borough or equivalent. I wonder if anywhere, except for some London boroughs if the Underground is included, can beat Liverpool with 22 stations on my reckoning. 23 if Aintree station is within the city boundary: it's on or near the Sefton one.

 

[mmh]

Glasgow City Council has 58 National Rail stations and 15 Subway stations, so 73 in total, or 72 if you count Partick (both National Rail and Subway) as one station.

 

[telstarbox]

26 in the London Borough of Bromley (National Rail only). None of these are shared with the Underground but 3 of them are also served by Tramlink. There is one are two more Tramlink-only stops - Beckenham Road and the very anonymous "Avenue Road".

 

[mmh]

26 in the London Borough of Bromley (National Rail only). None of these are shared with the Underground but 3 of them are also served by Tramlink. There is one more Tramlink-only stop with the very anonymous name of "Avenue Road" !

Hmm, that's got me wondering which borough Harrington Road tram stop counts as being in - there are "Welcome to Croydon" signs at the start of Harrington Road (slightly strange to have them at all I think, the only way to pass them is to exit/enter the cemetary / Beckenham Crematorium - which I'm assuming is entirely within Bromley borough. Perhaps the edge of the cemetary grounds is the border?)

 

[Cherry_Picker]

Birmingham has 34 heavy rail stations by my count, and yes, I've excluded Birmingham International which is in Solihull.

 

[Surreytraveller]

Hmm, that's got me wondering which borough Harrington Road tram stop counts as being in - there are "Welcome to Croydon" signs at the start of Harrington Road (slightly strange to have them at all I think, the only way to pass them is to exit/enter the cemetary / Beckenham Crematorium - which I'm assuming is entirely within Bromley borough. Perhaps the edge of the cemetary grounds is the border?)

According to my OS map, its in Croydon. The boundary between Croydon and Bromley runs along the east of the tram lines

 

[Surreytraveller]

Glasgow City Council has 58 National Rail stations and 15 Subway stations, so 73 in total, or 72 if you count Partick (both National Rail and Subway) as one station.

That's probably more than the London Borough with the most in anyway

 

[Edgeley]

Stockport has 19.

 

[bionic]

26 in the London Borough of Bromley (National Rail only). None of these are shared with the Underground but 3 of them are also served by Tramlink. There is one more Tramlink-only stop with the very anonymous name of "Avenue Road" !

Beckenham Road tram (only) stop is also in Bromley, one stop from Avenue Road.

 

[Greetlander]

You've got me thinking now about which local authority lost the most - I may head over to history and kick off.

 

[Fawkes Cat]

I mean town or city defined by local authority area, at the level of borough or equivalent. I wonder if anywhere, except for some London boroughs if the Underground is included, can beat Liverpool with 22 stations on my reckoning. 23 if Aintree station is within the city boundary: it's on or near the Sefton one.

You don't have to go all that far to beat Liverpool: Wirral for example, with (by my count) 25.

Given Glasgow's apparent primacy on this one, is there room for a runner's up competition of most in England, most in Wales and most in NI?

 

[telstarbox]

Beckenham Road tram (only) stop is also in Bromley, one stop from Avenue Road.

So it is.

 

[telstarbox]

This is a useful source of boundaries if anyone's interested: https://mapit.mysociety.org/postcode/SE1 2AA.html

 

[telstarbox]

For Wales, Wikipedia says there are 20 in the City of Cardiff.

 

[mmh]

For Wales, Wikipedia says there are 20 in the City of Cardiff.

The local authority with the most in Wales is far from urban though...

 

[d9009alycidon]

You've got me thinking now about which local authority lost the most - I may head over to history and kick off.

I would imagine that Edinburgh would be up there among the front runners, at one point it had only three stations left out of around 30 at one time

Jim

 

[telstarbox]

What about Sheffield which has only six?

 

[OwlMan]

I assume that with only one Wolverhampton has the least?

 

[gnolife]

I assume that with only one Wolverhampton has the least?

Oldham doesn't do any better numberwise, with the added bonus of the station, Greenfield, not actually serving the town centre

 

[scrapy]

I assume that with only one Wolverhampton has the least?

Bury has no national rail stations.

 

[urbophile]

Glasgow, and the London boroughs mentioned, clearly beat Liverpool. But boundaries vary, and some boroughs cover an extremely wide geographical area but a comparatively sparse population: Leeds is an example where the compact city centre (with very few stations) is surrounded by green fields and market towns like Otley, all officially within the 'city'. Even so I can't think that it has more than half a dozen or so stations in total. I don't know if Cardiff's boundaries are similar. Greater Manchester must have many stations – more if those now converted to Metrolink are included – but the city itself is quite small in area. Liverpool similarly is almost entirely urban with the green belt and much of suburbia located in neighbouring boroughs.

 

[Fawkes Cat]

Glasgow, and the London boroughs mentioned, clearly beat Liverpool. But boundaries vary, and some boroughs cover an extremely wide geographical area but a comparatively sparse population: (...) Liverpool similarly is almost entirely urban with the green belt and much of suburbia located in neighbouring boroughs.

Ah yes. The suburban space and beauty of Birkenhead and Bootle as opposed to the inner city hells of Sefton Park and Woolton...

This does feel a little like trying to change the question to 'are there any cities just like Liverpool which have more stations than Liverpool?' Given that there is nowhere else like Liverpool (see also 'Liverpool particularism') the answer to that version of the question is always going to be 'no' - which doesn't really give a very long-lasting thread here on the forum.

 

[Bevan Price]

I mean town or city defined by local authority area, at the level of borough or equivalent. I wonder if anywhere, except for some London boroughs if the Underground is included, can beat Liverpool with 22 stations on my reckoning. 23 if Aintree station is within the city boundary: it's on or near the Sefton one.

Aintree is just inside the Sefton boundary.

 

[urbophile]

Ah yes. The suburban space and beauty of Birkenhead and Bootle as opposed to the inner city hells of Sefton Park and Woolton...

This does feel a little like trying to change the question to 'are there any cities just like Liverpool which have more stations than Liverpool?' Given that there is nowhere else like Liverpool (see also 'Liverpool particularism') the answer to that version of the question is always going to be 'no' - which doesn't really give a very long-lasting thread here on the forum.

Sorry I realise that my OP might have seemed a bit like that. I was just reflecting on the contrast between cities like Leeds and Sheffield, of a similar size to Liverpool, which have many fewer stations. I originally titled the thread 'which town/city has the most stations' but that would have brought up different anomalies like comparing Greater Manchester with stand-alone cities. I believe Nottingham is another example of a tightly-bounded local authority with much of its urban area outside the boundaries.
It is a bit of a pointless thread I know. But it's headed Trivia and it's nearly Christmas!

 

[507 001]

Hmm, that's got me wondering which borough Harrington Road tram stop counts as being in - there are "Welcome to Croydon" signs at the start of Harrington Road (slightly strange to have them at all I think, the only way to pass them is to exit/enter the cemetary / Beckenham Crematorium - which I'm assuming is entirely within Bromley borough. Perhaps the edge of the cemetary grounds is the border?)

Those welcome to Croydon signs are probably the best defence we have against a zombie uprising...

‘Go back to your graves, we’re in Croydon!’

 

[frodshamfella]

Ah yes. The suburban space and beauty of Birkenhead and Bootle as opposed to the inner city hells of Sefton Park and Woolton...

This does feel a little like trying to change the question to 'are there any cities just like Liverpool which have more stations than Liverpool?' Given that there is nowhere else like Liverpool (see also 'Liverpool particularism') the answer to that version of the question is always going to be 'no' - which doesn't really give a very long-lasting thread here on the forum.

With all due respect that is a rather sarcastic .