Unique railway stations

[blackfive460]

Leeds (Whitehall)

The only temporary station ever built to only handle trains at night only?

No it didn't!
Unless my memory is really going, I'm sure I used it one Saturday afternoon and the bus replacement to 'City' station.

 

[ert47]

Norwood Junction; The only station (that im aware of) that is featured on Wikipedia with a person riding a bike into the ticket hall.

 

[bnm]

Looe I think is the only station where the platforms for the branch line are at a right angle to the main line.

Did you perhaps mean Liskeard at the other end of the Looe branch?

 

[Scotrail84]

Dunfermline Town station is the only station in Scotland to have the word Town at the end of its name. Correct me if im wrong.

 

[bnm]

Dunfermline Town station is the only station in Scotland to have the word Town at the end of its name. Correct me if im wrong.

OK, I'll correct you!

Ardrossan Town.

 

[4SRKT]

And Prestwick Town.

 

[First class]

Just read back through this thread, and re: the smoking comments:

There are no laws specifically banning smoking on railway stations... for example, all above-ground Merseyrail stations permit smoking, so long as it done outside of the shelter/waiting room (minimum required under the Smoking Ban). Merseyrail also have to do a specific announcement (automated PIS) on arrival at Chester informing customers that smoking is not permitted at Chester station.

A TOC can, however, provide sufficient notices to prevent smoking on any part of the station, under the railway byelaws.

3. Smoking
No person shall smoke or carry a lighted pipe, cigar, cigarette, match, lighter or other lighted item on any part of the railway on or near which there is a notice indicating that smoking is not allowed.

No notice = smoking permitted.

 

[Scotrail84]

OK, I'll correct you!

Ardrossan Town.

And Prestwick Town.

Ok Dunfermline Town is the only station outside of driver only and the SPT area to have Town at the end of its name.

 

[4SRKT]

Ok Dunfermline Town is the only station outside of driver only and the SPT area to have Town at the end of its name.

Could go even further and say that Dunfermline Town is the only station in Dunfermline with Town at the end of its name

 

[Scotrail84]

Could go even further and say that Dunfermline Town is the only station in Dunfermline with Town at the end of its name

true. They should have kept thier old names upper and lower

 

[4SRKT]

I always think of Dunfermline Townhill anyway when I hear/see the name Dunfermline Town.

 

[Lee_Again]

How about Cardiff Bay. I think this is the only station in England/Scotland/Wales requiring two changes to reach London. All others can make do with one; even if some are daft. (Excl. IoW)

 

[Tomnick]

Just to name one group, stations between Habrough (excl) and Barton-on-Humber require at least two changes to reach London. Thinking a little outside the area that I know, are there any suburban services around Glasgow that have no services to Glasgow Central (or Westerton for a connection to the sleeper!)? Looking at the SPT map, how about Kelvindale?

 

[4SRKT]

Just to name one group, stations between Habrough (excl) and Barton-on-Humber require at least two changes to reach London. Thinking a little outside the area that I know, are there any suburban services around Glasgow that have no services to Glasgow Central (or Westerton for a connection to the sleeper!)? Looking at the SPT map, how about Kelvindale?

Well, there are loads of stations that have no services to Glasgow Central, such as the whole of the the Airdrie/Drumgelloch line, Springburn, Cumbernauld and local stations to Falkirk etc. I guess you meant Central OR Queen St though.

I like this idea though. In West Yorkshire the only stations that don't have services to Leeds are Baildon and the (utterly pointless) stations between Pontefract and Wakefield. Also (these days) Slaithwaite and Marsden.

 

[Sun Chariot]

Whilst I appreciate it's now long-closed and demolished, Riccarton Junction was, I believe, unique in that the surrounding settlement was built to serve the station, rather than the station being built to serve the settlement. It also had no transport access (at the time) other than via rail.
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Oh, it's USA rather than UK, but I think Cumbres station is unique in having regular steam-hauled passenger services at an altitude greater than 10,000 feet above sea level.

 

[BRX]

Whilst I appreciate it's now long-closed and demolished, Riccarton Junction was, I believe, unique in that the surrounding settlement was built to serve the station, rather than the station being built to serve the settlement.

I think there are a few places like this - Crewe for example.

 

[Sun Chariot]

There is a subtle difference - the Crewe example being an existing village which, upon arrival of the Grand Junction Railway, vastly developed into a railway-focussed town. In Riccarton Jn's case, there was absolutely no settlement until the NBR arrived.

 

[LE Greys]

Micheldever Station as a community is a pretty long way from Micheldever itself (2.6 miles on Google Maps) and a small community essentially grew up around the station just because it was there. Not quite sure how you would describe that, but it seems like a similar case. Crewe and Swindon are very much 'railway towns', but Swindon at least was a canal junction a century before the GWR ever came there.

 

[Sun Chariot]

Indeed, there are - or were - many stations which were built for railway convenience, rather than go near the village or town they purported to serve.
Off the top of my head (OK, too lazy to to check in a book!),Dent village is 4 miles away from (and 750ft below!) the S&C line.
So Riccarton Jn is, it seems, a lone case of a station having no existing settlement located within a considerable distance.

 

[Tomnick]

Well, there are loads of stations that have no services to Glasgow Central, such as the whole of the the Airdrie/Drumgelloch line, Springburn, Cumbernauld and local stations to Falkirk etc. I guess you meant Central OR Queen St though.

I like this idea though. In West Yorkshire the only stations that don't have services to Leeds are Baildon and the (utterly pointless) stations between Pontefract and Wakefield. Also (these days) Slaithwaite and Marsden.

Sorry, I see how my post was misleading now - I was actually replying to Lee_Again's post looking for stations requiring two changes to reach London! Since there's no direct service to London from Queen Street, those stations with services only to Queen Street - and no other station with London trains - will present no opportunities to travel to London without changing at least twice. The portions of the Highland sleeper make a few calls at smaller stations, which rule out a few options.

I'm not sure how many of the stations you mention would have fitted Lee_Again's criteria - though the new Grand Northern service fills a few gaps, I suspect. How many stations don't have direct services to their county town though? I keep reading that Bottesford is unique in Leicestershire in that respect .

 

[4SRKT]

Sorry, I see how my post was misleading now - I was actually replying to Lee_Again's post looking for stations requiring two changes to reach London! Since there's no direct service to London from Queen Street, those stations with services only to Queen Street - and no other station with London trains - will present no opportunities to travel to London without changing at least twice. The portions of the Highland sleeper make a few calls at smaller stations, which rule out a few options.

I'm not sure how many of the stations you mention would have fitted Lee_Again's criteria - though the new Grand Northern service fills a few gaps, I suspect. How many stations don't have direct services to their county town though? I keep reading that Bottesford is unique in Leicestershire in that respect .

Well, in North Yorkshire, ONLY Thirsk and York have direct trains to the county town. All other stations require a change at York, or even at Leeds and York.

 

[142094]

Was going to say Yarm, as its in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire.

 

[4SRKT]

Was going to say Yarm, as its in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire.

So is Middlesbrough for that matter (and Thornaby, or was that Co. Durham before Cleveland was created?).

 

[142094]

Not sure where Durham ended, thought it was somewhere like Greatham, so by that Billingham, Stockton and Thornaby were in North Yorkshire. Have to check a map.

 

[4SRKT]

Stockton was definitely in Co Durham. I suspect the Tees was the boundary between Durham and the North Riding at this point. However, although Thornaby is postally Stockton on Tees (TS17), it is south of the Tees, so I'm not sure which it would have been.

Broadly speaking of the boroughs that made up Cleveland, Hartlepool and Stockton were formally Co Durham, and Middlesbrough and Langbaurgh were the North Riding. Obviously this is not 100% correct because Yarm was/is part of the borough/unitary authority of Stockton on Tees, but was very much North Riding before 1974.

 

[TGV]

I'm thinking Ebbsfleet as it's probably the only heavy rail station in the uk with no conventional signalling - cab signalling only. Stratford int has the spur to temple mills which is signalled normally. Hey, we are getting desperate but it's the best I have!

 

[MidnightFlyer]

I'm thinking Ebbsfleet as it's probably the only heavy rail station in the uk with no conventional signalling - cab signalling only. Stratford int has the spur to temple mills which is signalled normally. Hey, we are getting desperate but it's the best I have!

Only station in England not to be managed by a British TOC or Network Rail... London & Continental Rlys.
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Chelmsford is the busiest station (by number of passengers) that is a non-terminal station outside of London

 

[TGV]

Only station in England not to be managed by a British TOC or Network Rail... London & Continental Rlys.
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Chelmsford is the busiest station (by number of passengers) that is a non-terminal station outside of London

Surely New Street is classed as a non-terminal station outside London that kinda scuppers that fact?! Temple Meads? Newcastle? They all have higher passenger figures than Chelmsford - that is according to Office of Rail Regulation anyway.
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Oh and Edinburgh Waverley has even more than those three too - which surprises me.

 

[Railsigns]

Edinburgh Waverley isn't in England though...

 

[TGV]

Edinburgh Waverley isn't in England though...

He said "Outside London" in relation to the Chelsmford claim... The England context was a different fact I think.