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

Magdalia

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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.
Stevenage was moved by almost exactly 1 mile in 1973.

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.
When the new Waterbeach station opens it will beat this. I don't have the exact distance between the old and new stations but it is about 2 miles.

Foulridge station was relocated to Ingrow. Brick by brick.
On the North Norfolk Railway, Holt is (a) about a mile from its original location and (b) has a main station building recovered brick by brick from Stalham.
 
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Leicester North is some distance north of the former GCR Leicester station which you could say it replaced.
 

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Bromsgrove may be close to the station it replaced, but it certainly confused me when I used an OS map to walk into town, I just hadn’t realised properly that it had moved and got in a bit of a mess. Not helped by the complete absence of signs.
 

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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.
The first station to be called 'Killin' was what later became Glenoglehead, about 4 miles by road (a bit less in a straight line, more by rail) from the later Killin station on the branch from Killin Junction. It closed to regular passenger traffic soon after the branch was opened, although remaining in use as a crossing point. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenoglehead_railway_station.
 

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At the crow flies, Michigan Central (former) station in Detroit is 4.4km/ 2.75 miles from the station that Amtrak currently serve.
 

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Berry Brow rings a bell as the current one is 300m from the original. Think the old one was two platforms and the new single platform built on the down? alignment at a similar time to the 88-89 era singling.
 

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I think Salisbury station is about 1.8 miles by rail from the original terminus at Milford of Bishopstoke (now Eastleigh) to Salisbury line, the old station was much closer to current station in direct straight line than the route via Salisbury tunnel junction
 

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Not sure if this counts but when the original Long Eaton station which was on the Erewash Line was closed in 1967 they renamed the exisiting Sawly Junction to Long Eaton. Shame really as we now live just around the corner of where it used to be.
 

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Whitstable (the LC&DR and later SER station) was relocated from Oxford Street to its present location about 650 metres to the east in 1915.
 

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Ramsgate's 1926 opened station (100 years old next week) replaced the ex SER Ramsgate station (600m away) and the ex LCDR Ramsgate Harbour station (1.2 miles/2.0 km away).
 

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Godalming moved about 450 metres when the Portsmouth line was taken through to Havant.
 

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Although it has a different name, Meridian Water is the direct replacement for Angel Road, which was 580 metres away.

Eltham station replaced 2 stations, Eltham Well Hall which was 200m away, and Eltham Park which was 460m away
 

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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.
Or, in the case of Welwyn Garden City, the station opened on the main line, to replace a halt on the Hatfield to Luton branch line
 

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Garston closed when Liverpool South Parkway opened
Upton by Chester closed replaced by Bache
 

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Belle Vue station was moved a very short distance north in the 1980s so definitely would not qualify for having been moved the furthest. The new station is next to the A57 Hyde Road. It opened on 24th March 1986: Your New Belle Vue Rail Station | Science Museum Group Collection https://share.google/EuSP6CKF3SywgCtxN
It might qualify for the shortest distance of a re-sited station from the original location!
 
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Another historic one, Micheldever Station on the London to Southampton line was originally named "Andover Road", and was built to provide a link by horse drawn coach to Andover. When the Worting Junction to Salisbury line was built, a new station was provided in Andover itself, about 10 miles from the original one. The latter was then renamed Micheldever, after a village over two miles away. (Subsequently a smaller settlement which grew up around the station became known as "Micheldever Station" and is quite separate from the original village).
 

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There are many other examples around the country of settlements which grew up around stations. Two in Scotland are "Carstairs Junction" village next to Carstairs station some distance from Carstairs village and "Ratho Station" village (around the site of a closed station) some distance from the village of Ratho.
 

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There are many other examples around the country of settlements which grew up around stations. Two in Scotland are "Carstairs Junction" village next to Carstairs station some distance from Carstairs village and "Ratho Station" village (around the site of a closed station) some distance from the village of Ratho.
In Northumberland Stannington Station is so called for the same reason, but is without a station, and Widdrington Station which does retain its station.
 

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Similarly Berwick Station in Sussex.
Are you saying there's a nearby hamlet or locality called 'Berwick Station' or that the station has been relocated at some time in the past, or just that the station is yet another which is some distance from the village of the same name, that it purports to serve?
 

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