Trivia: Non-consecutive stations on the same line named after the same place

[Basil Jet]

East Ham and West Ham have two (LUL) stations between them

 

[Mcr Warrior]

In Glasgow (as far as I remember) you've got a few trains that go to both Queen St and Central low levels with one or two stops between, although I can't remember exactly.

Are there?

From certain Strathclyde area stations, such as those between Dalmuir and Partick, you can travel to either Glasgow Queen Street or Glasgow Central, but not, as far as I am aware, both sequentially on the same train.

 

[Falcon1200]

In Glasgow (as far as I remember) you've got a few trains that go to both Queen St and Central low levels with one or two stops between

Are there?

No, there aren't ! Although, as discussed in the redoubling single lines topic, during the Newton remodelling in 1991 trains did run from Central High Level to Queen St Low Level, albeit via a very long way round !

 

[Rescars]

Here's a challenge! Was a through train ever worked between East Grinstead and West Grinstead, even as a special? The two Grinsteads are a fair distance apart, with Crawley and Horsham in between. If such train ever ran, presumably a reversal at Three Bridges would have been necessary.

 

[Railsigns]

Here's a challenge! Was a through train ever worked between East Grinstead and West Grinstead, even as a special?

If not, it would still be possible to run one from East Kilbride to West Kilbride today. The journey would be similar in distance, and no reversal is necessary.

 

[zwk500]

Hampton Wick and Wick?

They're not named after the same place though, are they?

how about Salisbury - Romsey which passes through Romsey to Southampton and Eastliegh before returning to Romsey via Chandlers Ford.
Or the Piccadilly line from Hatton Cross via the various Heathrow terminals.

Returning to the same station is surely not what the OP is looking for.

Here's a challenge! Was a through train ever worked between East Grinstead and West Grinstead, even as a special? The two Grinsteads are a fair distance apart, with Crawley and Horsham in between. If such train ever ran, presumably a reversal at Three Bridges would have been necessary.

Can't answer whether or not a trip ever ran (I doubt it though, the two settlements are comparatively small and have no real connection to each other apart from the name), but reversal at Three Bridges would be the most obvious routing (if the track layout allowed). Other routings would be to head south and reverse at Brighton, or run up to London and loop around back down to Horsham.

 

[DelW]

Since closed stations are now being discussed, in Ireland there were no fewer than five stations (Killonon, Boher, Dromkeen, Pallas and Oola) between Limerick and Limerick Junction.

Limerick Junction is of course quite a long way from Limerick, but it is "named after the same place". The same applies to the original example, since Llandudno Junction isn't in Llandudno either, it's a separate place that grew up around the railway junction early in the 20th century.

 

[cornishjohn]

They're not named after the same place though, are they?

[Sorry misread you.] They are. Hampton, Hampton Wick and Hampton Court were all settlements around the original manor, loosely arranged at three corners of Bushy Park, with Teddington on the fourth corner. Hampton Hill station was never built.

(Ed.) The original line never went through the wick of course, it went to Twickenham.

 

[D6130]

They're not named after the same place though, are they?

No....it was just a small piece of whimsical humour on my part to lighten things up on here! According to the programme for a Southern Region railtour on which I travelled in the 1970s, Hampton is 743 rail miles from Wick.

 

[PGAT]

I'm not sure if this counts but Ewell East and Ewell West (both 1 stop from Epsom, but requires a change there)

If not then Norwood Junction, Crystal Palace, Gipsy Hill, West Norwood

 

[thenorthern]

It's in Ireland but Limerick Junction and Limerick are some distance apart.

 

[D6130]

It's in Ireland but Limerick Junction and Limerick are some distance apart.

See post #67.

 

[snowball]

When HS2 was planned to have an eastern arm going to Leeds, the junction near Curdworth would have been called Leeds Junction, about 100 miles from Leeds.

 

[Ianigsy]

Isn't it officially just James Street? And the Merseyrail platform just says Lime Street, though the big station above takes the Liverpool prefix of course.

I’ve done a bit of digging around, and the original Mersey Railway signage seems to have read “James Street (Liverpool)“ and “Hamilton Square (Birkenhead)”, presumably to make it clear in the early days which side of the river you were on.

In LMR days there are large totems reading “Liverpool James Street” and “Birkenhead Hamilton Square”, which probably lasted until the construction of the Loop, at which point they became James Street and Hamilton Square. Given that there’s a St James Street station in north east London and a Hamilton Central in Lanarkshire, under nationalisation it probably became more important to retain the city/town names so that James Street didn’t receive a new set of signage in Eastern Region blue!

 

[d70g]

Loughborough and Loughborough Junction (were we to consider the MML and Thameslink to be the same line).

(Wikipedia, with citation, states of the junction: "'Loughborough' because the area was once the location of Loughborough House, the residence of Henry Hastings, 1st Baron Loughborough")

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Loughborough and Loughborough Junction (were we to consider the MML and Thameslink to be the same line).

(Wikipedia, with citation, states of the junction: "'Loughborough' because the area was once the location of Loughborough House, the residence of Henry Hastings, 1st Baron Loughborough")

That's a good one, they are technically named after the same place, albeit indirectly.

However as per the OP's stipulations, you can't travel between the two without changing trains. Only one change though, which beats London Liverpool Street and Liverpool Lime Street! (The former being named after a street named after a Lord of the latter city).

Thinking about it that's technically doable with a single change at Norwich or Ely, but presumably you'd need an All Line Rover to do so.

 

[plugwash]

Only one change though, which beats London Liverpool Street and Liverpool Lime Street!

You can do London Liverpool Street to Liverpool Lime Street in one change at Ely. If you are prepared to use the tube, you can also do it in one change at Euston.

 

[snowball]

(Wikipedia, with citation, states of the junction: "'Loughborough' because the area was once the location of Loughborough House, the residence of Henry Hastings, 1st Baron Loughborough")

Is it just me or did the aristocracy have a definite tendency to have their great houses in places that were nowhere near the places from which they took their titles?

The Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth, Derbyshire for example.

 

[GLC]

Perhaps stretching the rules slightly, but Upper Tyndrum and Tyndrum Lower? Both sit on the West Highland Line, but the only route through both requires a change at Crianlarich

 

[Lukeo2311]

I am suprised no one has mentioned Bromborough - Brombourgh Rake, both stations can be seen from each other too!

 

[61653 HTAFC]

I am suprised no one has mentioned Bromborough - Brombourgh Rake, both stations can be seen from each other too!

Those two don't qualify as they're adjacent to each other.

I've no idea what the word "Rake" means in the context of Eastham Rake and Bromborough Rake. If it's some archaic term for a geographical feature (an area of marshland, for arguments sake) and both refer to the same "rake" then those two would qualify I guess, being separated by Bromborough.

 

[Djgr]

I’ve done a bit of digging around, and the original Mersey Railway signage seems to have read “James Street (Liverpool)“ and “Hamilton Square (Birkenhead)”, presumably to make it clear in the early days which side of the river you were on.

In LMR days there are large totems reading “Liverpool James Street” and “Birkenhead Hamilton Square”, which probably lasted until the construction of the Loop, at which point they became James Street and Hamilton Square. Given that there’s a St James Street station in north east London and a Hamilton Central in Lanarkshire, under nationalisation it probably became more important to retain the city/town names so that James Street didn’t receive a new set of signage in Eastern Region blue!

If we allow Birkenhead Hamilton Square then we have another non consecutive sequence:

Birkenhead Hamilton Square-Conway Park-Birkenhead Park

 

[The Prisoner]

Hate to be a pedant, but the rules seem to have evolved to state the stations should be in the same town/city. Actually rules out post #1 as Llandudno Junction isn’t an extension of the town of Llandudno - it’s a village in its own right with a few miles of green in between…..

The village has a population of around 6k and grew from the station of the same name.

 

[swt_passenger]

Noticed that Southampton already done

how about Salisbury - Romsey which passes through Romsey to Southampton and Eastliegh before returning to Romsey via Chandlers Ford.

But there’s still only one Romsey station. The question is about the lines, not the services.

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Those two don't qualify as they're adjacent to each other.

I've no idea what the word "Rake" means in the context of Eastham Rake and Bromborough Rake. If it's some archaic term for a geographical feature (an area of marshland, for arguments sake) and both refer to the same "rake" then those two would qualify I guess, being separated by Bromborough.

I recall the meaning of “rake” in this context was discussed in this 2015 thread, I don’t think it’s actually the same actual thing in both names:

MerseyRail's "Rakes"

We travelled on the Wirral Line section of the Merseyrail. We travelled through Bromborough Rake and Eastham Rake which were just split by Bromborough. To hear of a place suffixed with Rake is not something I've heard of before, so I was wondering if it was local dialect? Does anyone know...

www.railforums.co.uk

 

[Djgr]

Those two don't qualify as they're adjacent to each other.

I've no idea what the word "Rake" means in the context of Eastham Rake and Bromborough Rake. If it's some archaic term for a geographical feature (an area of marshland, for arguments sake) and both refer to the same "rake" then those two would qualify I guess, being separated by Bromborough.

It's just the Viking in the area leaking through, as per Tranmere Rovers.

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

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Is it just me or did the aristocracy have a definite tendency to have their great houses in places that were nowhere near the places from which they took their titles?

The Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth, Derbyshire for example.

Euston Station, and the area of London in which it sits, is actually named for the Earl of Euston, a subsidiary title of major London landowner the Duke of Grafton whose family seat was at Euston Hall in Suffolk (and I think the present Duke still lives there, his eldest son being the current Earl of Euston).

 

[61653 HTAFC]

One that I wasn't aware of until watching Jago Hazzard's latest video, Beckton Park and Beckton on the DLR. Separated by Cyprus and Gallions Reach.

 

[Dr Hoo]

Is it just me or did the aristocracy have a definite tendency to have their great houses in places that were nowhere near the places from which they took their titles?

The Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth, Derbyshire for example.

Rather OT, but surely the point is that the aristocracy didn't 'take' their titles, they were 'given' them by the monarch/sovereign.

E.g. the person living in Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire was the Duke of Rutland.

Not made any easier by the fact that many Earldoms and Dukedoms 'expired' in the absence of legitimate heirs and could be 're-created' multiple times with new families who had land holdings in different parts of the realm.

There is probably scope for another thread about train services that call at multiple stations serving the same dukedom or something.

 

[Falcon1200]

Rather OT, but surely the point is that the aristocracy didn't 'take' their titles, they were 'given' them by the monarch/sovereign.

Also OT, but the Duchess of Sussex lives a long way from Sussex, has probably never been to Sussex (if she even knows where it is), and will certainly never go there now......

 

[32475]

East Worthing, Worthing, West Worthing (if the trio hasn’t been mentioned before)