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    Station association

    Bognor Regis serves the town of the same name and is the terminus of a short branch line from Barnham.
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    Station association

    Devonport station lies on the Tamar Valley Line between Plymouth and Gunnislake; trains on this line reverse at Bere Alston.
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    Settlement Association

    Pontrilas lies on the River Dore, which is a tributary of the River Monow. It rises on Cusop Hill, in the foothills of the Black Mountains, close to the border between England and Wales. It flows for 12 miles through several villages, before reaching the Monnow near the small village of Llangua.
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    Station association

    Darsham is also on the East Suffolk Line.
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    Settlement Association

    You should not confuse the Maypole in the Isles of Scilly with the hamlet of the same name in the parish of St Maughans in Monmouthshire.
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    Station association

    Pontefract Baghill is also on the Dearne Valley Line.
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    Settlement Association

    On 25th May 1956 the parish was renamed from "Barton in the Clay" to "Barton-le-Clay"; in the same year, the (Wells-on-Sea) Urban District Council voted to re-adopt the name Wells-next-the-Sea, and this has been the official name since then.
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    BR ticket offices not at a station

    This was my comment (item no. 16, page) on the thread mentioned above: "The Government Department I work for uses an agency to supply travel tickets, and it's part of my job to liaise with them when someone wants to travel. It's not just restricted to rail or even the UK, though - I can book...
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    Station association

    Dovey Junction is also a station with very limited non-railway access.
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    Settlement Association

    St Andrew's Church, Wroxeter is a redundant Church of England parish church. It is a designated Grade I listed building and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The ages of the churches under the care of the Trust in the English Midlands spread from St Andrew's Church, Wroxeter...
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    Station association

    Bamber Bridge was once a much larger station and used by many more trains than today; it shares this "distinction" with Lostock Hall.
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    Settlement Association

    Including St Agnes village, the civil parish of the same name includes the hamlet of Blackwater.
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    Settlement Association

    The Widnes–Runcorn Transporter Bridge crossed the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal, linking the towns of Widnes and Runcorn.
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    Station association

    Polsloe Bridge is also an unstaffed station in the Exeter area.
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    Settlement Association

    Tobermory (no "a") gained prominence as the location for the 2000s BBC children's programme Balamory which made the coloured houses of the main street famous, although they are not unique to there. Another location used for filming was Kingston, a small hamlet near North Berwick, which provided...

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