Trivia: furthest distance for a re-sited station compared to original location

[brad465]

For any station that has been re-sited (i.e. the original station closed and a replacement one for it opened), which case has seen the longest distance for re-siting? The new station does not have to have exactly the same name as the one it replaced, and can be anytime in the history of the UK railway network. The only rule is it has to be a replacement, not an additional station.

Rochester station was re-sited 500 metres west of its original location in 2015, the example that prompted this thread idea.

 

[43010]

Tiverton Parkway (opened 12 May 1986) is some 1m 62ch (3.32km) northeast of the former Tiverton Junction station (closed 11 May 1986), which it replaced.

 

[Sir Felix Pole]

Liverpool Crown Street to Lime Street; Manchester Liverpool Road to Victoria; Birmingham Curzon Street to New Street; Nine Elms to Waterloo?

There are also several examples where a terminus line has been truncated and the station relocated - e.g. Uckfield, Fort William, Morecambe, St. Ives, Gunnislake. Historically, there are quite a few examples where a new station was built when a line was extended and the original terminus closed - e.g. Altrincham, Lytham, Whitehaven. Stations were also moved when a branch line opened off the main line - e.g. Stoke Canon for the Exe Valley.

 

[Bill57p9]

Fort William railway station was relocated 700 yards north in 1977 to allow construction of the town centre bypass.

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Girvan is another example. The original 1861 Girvan station was replaced in 1877 with the current one built around 500m to the east, to facilitate the extension to Stranraer. However the original station was retained as a goods station until 1891.

 

[brad465]

Tiverton Parkway (opened 12 May 1986) is some 1m 62ch (3.32km) northeast of the former Tiverton Junction station (closed 11 May 1986), which it replaced.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is the winner.

 

[swt_passenger]

Alnmouth’s first station opened just north of the Aln Viaduct, the station house still stands, it was replaced by the current station just over a mile to the south.

 

[Mr. SW]

Bishopsgate to Liverpool Street. Pimlico to London Victoria: right across the River Thames and obliterating the Grosvenor Canal in the process. Maiden Lane (Temporary) to Kings Cross. Both Bradford stations. Sheringham.

 

[Rescars]

Kings Cross Thameslink to King's Cross St Pancras?

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Gatwick Airport moved to what had been Gatwick Racecourse when Tinsley Green was closed.
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[izvor]

Good chance to get some old maps out and a ruler!

The present Ramsgate replaced Ramsgate Harbour in 1926 which I make 1.1 miles away as the crow flies. (It also replaced Ramsgate Town which was nearer)
The original Godalming terminus was about 0.6 miles away ATCF and actually in Farncombe.
Merstham was moved about 0.7 miles north a few years after the line opened.
Gravesend's original terminus (from Strood) was replaced when the through line opened, about 0.7 miles west ATCF.
Tunbridge Wells similar, new site about 0.7 miles south.
The first Sevenoaks station was near where Bat & Ball is now, about 1.1 miles away ATCF.
Leigh-on-Sea was moved 46 chains (about 0.6 miles) west in 1934.
The new Stevenage station is about 1 mile south of the original.
Polegate has been resited twice, about 0.2 miles east and then back again!

 

[norbitonflyer]

The first Sevenoaks station was near where Bat & Ball is now, about 1.1 miles away ATCF.

Don't think that counts, as Bat & Ball was the replacement for the original station, and Tubs Hill was an additional one

 

[The exile]

I wouldn't be surprised if this is the winner.

There may well be some early ones where the “resiting” meant completing a branch line rather than having a station miles away on the main line.

 

[AlterEgo]

I wouldn't be surprised if this is the winner.

It's not really a resiting though, it's a new station serving a new catchment and purpose. It was in fact built on the site of Sampford Peverell station.

Stations which are resited in my view have to retain the same name and purpose.

 

[Paul AC]

I realise that this is outside the implied scope of the OP, but there have been some impressively-distant station moves in Spain. As an example, the original (1902 - 2008) station in Burgos was somewhat to the south of the city; when the high speed line from Madrid was built this was routed to the north of the city and the 2008 replacement station, named Burgos Rosa Manzano, is about 5.4 km (3.4 miles) away.

 

[xotGD]

Foulridge station was relocated to Ingrow. Brick by brick.

 

[Rescars]

Foulridge station was relocated to Ingrow. Brick by brick.

Monmouth Troy has undergone a similar move to Winchcombe

 

[Sir Felix Pole]

Monmouth Troy has undergone a similar move to Winchcombe

Also in Monmouthshire, Raglan was dismantled and moved to St. Fagans in Cardiff, although it appears to be still in storage. For many years it was visible from the A449 which partially took the track bed of the railway.

In Cornwall the concrete platform at Falmouth Town (opened in 1970 as The Dell) came from Perranporth Beach Halt (closed in 1963).

 

[YorksLad12]

If we were counting reopenings I'd nominate Yarm. Quick's Chronology says that the old station (in County Durham) closed in 1960, while the new station (now in Yorkshire) opened 1 and 1/8th of a mile* further south in 1996.

*Is that 1m 10c ? Google measures it as 1.35 miles if you follow the curve of the line.

 

[Dr_Paul]

Kingston station was originally on the LSWR main line in open countryside about a mile and a half south of the town centre, and was rebuilt in the 1840s half a mile down the line. It was renamed Kingston Junction in 1852, which is odd, as, although it was a junction station, the two branches from the main line went to Hampton Court and through Effingham Junction and beyond, not to Kingston town. In 1863 a station was built in Kingston town itself, and the original station was renamed Surbiton and Kingston in 1863 and Surbiton in 1867.

 

[Bedpan]

From the station now called Surbiton to the "new" Kingston Station is 1.4 miles as the crow flies but over 4 miles by rail. I was interested to learn that it was renamed Kingston Junction for a while, presumably like Clapham Junction being near to but not in Clapham, and being a junction but not having a branch to Clapham. Also, although the Hampton Court branch opened in 1849, the Guildford New Line to and beyond Effingham Junction didn't open until 1885 by which time the old Kingston station had been renamed to Surbiton.

The current Thame station (Thame and Haddenham Parkway) which as far as I know was not built on the site of a previous station with a different name, and is a direct replacement station for the town of Thame, although admittedly after a 24 year interval, was relocated 2.4 miles from the original station as the crow flies, but about 11.5 miles by rail/trackbed.

 

[pne508]

When the railway was originally being built, there was resistance to the LSWR actually going through Kingston. So the original at station was built for the same reason as the the current one.

 

[Gloster]

Kingston station was originally on the LSWR main line in open countryside about a mile and a half south of the town centre, and was rebuilt in the 1840s half a mile down the line. It was renamed Kingston Junction in 1852, which is odd, as, although it was a junction station, the two branches from the main line went to Hampton Court and through Effingham Junction and beyond, not to Kingston town. In 1863 a station was built in Kingston town itself, and the original station was renamed Surbiton and Kingston in 1863 and Surbiton in 1867.

The Guildford New Line via Cobham did not open until 1885.

 

[Harvester]

Billingham station closed in 1966. The new station opened over a mile to the east, nearer the town centre.

 

[xotGD]

The former station building is still in situ in Ottawa city centre, but the current station is a taxi ride away.

 

[The Planner]

The current Thame station (Thame and Haddenham Parkway) which as far as I know was not built on the site of a previous station with a different name, and is a direct replacement station for the town of Thame, although admittedly after a 24 year interval, was relocated 2.4 miles from the original station as the crow flies, but about 11.5 miles by rail/trackbed.

It isn't, Haddenham and Thame Pwy is Haddenham moved about 600 metres north from its original location.

 

[Mr. SW]

Witney (Oxon) and Sudbury (Suffolk) both re-sited.

 

[Strathclyder]

The current Drumgelloch station is sited 550m (or 600 yards) to the east of the site of the 1989 station of the same name it replaced in 2011.

This is the second station on that site and the 3rd overall in the immediate area, the first being opened in 1862 by the Bathgate & Coatbridge Railway - named Clarkston, no relation to the station with the same name on the East Kilbride branch; this is most likely why the current station took the 1989 station's name despite it being located in the Clarkston area - and closed by BR in 1956 under 3 years after being renamed Clarkston (Lanarks). So in effect, the current Drumgelloch is more of a replacement for the original Clarkston station than it is the 1989 single-platform affair, certainly in terms of location anyway.

 

[Bedpan]

It isn't, Haddenham and Thame Pwy is Haddenham moved about 600 metres north from its original location.

Ahhh. I stand corrected then.

 

[Acathater]

Yeovil.
The original Hendford terminus on the B&E line was downgraded to a goods station when the line was extended nearly a mile to the replacement Yeovil Town
(And I do mean Hendford, not Hendford Halt which was a lot later)

 

[Djgr]

The former station building is still in situ in Ottawa city centre, but the current station is a taxi ride away.

or you can use the light railway (aka Metro)

 

[Alfonso]

Heathrow Junction station only lasted for a few months in 1998, but was about 2 miles from Heathrow terminal 2 and 3 station

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It's a bit of a stretch, but waterloo international replaced Dover western docks? Less of a stretch, st pancras international replaced waterloo international?