Stations that are over a river in the UK?

[lammergeier]

The river Rother flows under Chesterfield station.

 

[janahan]

Feltham Station has the Longford River cutting under it.

 

[swr444]

Hampton Court station runs over the river ember

 

[swt_passenger]

Also Southampton uses an old canal tunnel

The rail tunnel intersects with the canal tunnel, it doesn't actually use it in the sense trains run along its former alignment.

 

[Ken H]

Sloane Square is under the River Westbourne
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I think the Westbourne is a sewer. The aqueduct was hit by a bomb in WW2 flooding the station in filthy water. The rebuilt station had only been open a short while.

 

[43066]

The River Fleet ‘sewer’ passes under St Pancras, I understand.

The Porter Brook runs under Sheffield station.

You beat me to it. I understand the curved shape of Kings + station concourse owes its design to the river bank (before it was covered).

 

[swt_passenger]

You beat me to it. I understand the curved shape of Kings + station concourse owes its design to the river bank (before it was covered).

Indirectly, but it doesn’t really. The culverted Fleet river goes round the front of the hotel, well clear of its basement, then heads north under the road before veering towards St Pancras. So effectively the river culvert defined the hotel position. The curve of the new concourse was then designed to integrate with the back of the hotel.

 

[DanNCL]

Cannon Street and Charing Cross in London both sit partly over the Thames don’t they?

 

[edwin_m]

The Erewash (forming the Notts/Derbys boundary) is somewhere underneath Ilkeston station.

 

[steamybrian]

Higham area I believe

Also Southampton uses an old canal tunnel

The tunnel between Higham and Strood was originally a canal tunnel.

 

[Benjwri]

Bath Spa.

It’s possible technically a corner of Platform 2 might be over the Avon, I wouldn’t know without checking, but the station itself is most definitely not over the river.

 

[D6130]

The one remaining platform at Craigendoran station (there were formerly 5) crosses the Drumfork Burn.

 

[AM9]

To achieve this you need a wide river to start with - or put up with very short platforms!

... and for a station to be (expensively) over a wide river, it would need to be in or very near an important city.
Now to stretch the definition of a river, Ryde Pier Head is totally over the Solent which is the estuary of Southampton Water into which the Test and Itchen flow.

 

[30907]

Neither thread has mentioned the Eller Beck at Skipton (culverted) - and P3 at Shipley just extends over the Bradford Beck. The Bridgehouse Beck (not the River Worth BTW) runs under Haworth station yard.
A tributary of the Ravensbourne runs under Bromley S.

 

[Deepgreen]

I THINK Gatwick is built over the the Gatwick Stream, which effectively later becomes the River Mole. It's no Blackfriars though!

 

[AndrewE]

A historical one which almost qualifies: I think one of the stations (by the A53 N of the Potteries) had the single railway line behind a retaining wall above the Caldon canal and the platform cantilevered out over the canal! I can't see it on the historical maps now, (https://maps.nls.uk/view/101595884) so maybe it is one of the platforms on the restored Churnet Valley railway...

 

[fgwrich]

Forsinard is over one of the tributaries of the Halladale River. It might look like a gentle stream at the best of times, on a day of heavy rainfall though it certainly swells up!

 

[Doctor Fegg]

A historical one which almost qualifies: I think one of the stations (by the A53 N of the Potteries) had the single railway line behind a retaining wall above the Caldon canal and the platform cantilevered out over the canal! I can't see it on the historical maps now, (https://maps.nls.uk/view/101595884) so maybe it is one of the platforms on the restored Churnet Valley railway...

Yes, Consall.

 

[D6968]

Llangollen’s platform 2? Or maybe the access to it?

 

[357]

Romford since it's platforms were extended now goes over the River Rom

 

[Rescars]

... and for a station to be (expensively) over a wide river, it would need to be in or very near an important city.
Now to stretch the definition of a river, Ryde Pier Head is totally over the Solent which is the estuary of Southampton Water into which the Test and Itchen flow.

If we are allowed Ryde Pier Head, then can we really stretch the point. What about the Brighton and Rottingdean, where the Daddy Long-Legs never came into land (tidal conditions permitting)!? (OK, OK, I know the B&R was a tramway!)

 

[Peter Mugridge]

If we are allowed Ryde Pier Head, then can we really stretch the point. What about the Brighton and Rottingdean, where the Daddy Long-Legs never came into land (tidal conditions permitting)!? (OK, OK, I know the B&R was a tramway!)

If Ryde Pier Head is allowed, then so must be Portsmouth Harbour.

 

[D6130]

If Ryde Pier Head is allowed, then so must be Portsmouth Harbour.

Surely not? They're both over open seawater!

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Surely not? They're both over open seawater!

That's the way I see it, but.....

... and for a station to be (expensively) over a wide river, it would need to be in or very near an important city.
Now to stretch the definition of a river, Ryde Pier Head is totally over the Solent which is the estuary of Southampton Water into which the Test and Itchen flow.

 

[Rescars]

Returning to the OP, the Aire flows under Leeds City. Back in the BTH era, I was taken on a tour of the subterranean parts of the Queen's Hotel, which had direct access to the river bank.

 

[Sparrowman]

Interesting video about the river Irk which flows under Manchester Victoria.

 

[swt_passenger]

... and for a station to be (expensively) over a wide river, it would need to be in or very near an important city.
Now to stretch the definition of a river, Ryde Pier Head is totally over the Solent which is the estuary of Southampton Water into which the Test and Itchen flow.

Next thing you’ll be suggesting Portsmouth Harbour Station is on one of the estuaries of the River Wallington. (It runs through Fareham for anyone wondering.)

 

[Ken H]

Next thing you’ll be suggesting Portsmouth Harbour Station is on one of the estuaries of the River Wallington. (It runs through Fareham for anyone wondering.)

Portsmouth harbour (as are many of the inlets on the S coast) is a drowned river valley or ria. This is caused by the Uk sinking in the south while rising in Scotland as it recovers from the massive weight of ice over N Uk in the ice age. The raised beaches in Scotland are the evidence of the rising ground there.
So I think calling Pompey harbour a 'river' is valid.

 

[D6130]

Although not actually specified by the OP, I would take 'river' to mean a contained free-flowing stream of (relatively) fresh water....and 'estuary' (or 'firth' in Scotland) to mean a wide expanse of tidal salt water forming an inlet from the sea. Although one flows into the other, if it were my thread I would not accept Portsmouth Harbour or Ryde Pierhead....although I realise that those suggestions were made in jest.

 

[AM9]

Although not actually specified by the OP, I would take 'river' to mean a contained free-flowing stream of (relatively) fresh water....and 'estuary' (or 'firth' in Scotland) to mean a wide expanse of tidal salt water forming an inlet from the sea. Although one flows into the other, if it were my thread I would not accept Portsmouth Harbour or Ryde Pierhead....although I realise that those suggestions were made in jest.

Yes, none of us should take these trivia threads too seriously.