Closed Stations Journey quiz

[Welshman]

Glyn Neath

 

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Resolven

 

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Melyncourt Halt

 

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Clyne

 

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Cadoxton Terrace

 

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Neath Riverside

 

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Neath Abbey

 

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Cardonnel Road

 

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Briton Ferry Road

 

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Danygraig Halt

 

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Swansea Wind Street

 

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Swansea Victoria

 

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Swansea Bay

 

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Mumbles Road

 

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Killay

 

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Dunvant

 

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Gowerton South

 

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Gower Road

 

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Gorseinon

Isn't Gower Road still open under the name of Gowerton?

 

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Grovesend

 

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Parcyrhun

 

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Isn't Gower Road still open under the name of Gowerton?

Indeed so....and was also named Gowerton North at one time in its history ..

This is why we need your presence in an adjudication status like Welshman on this quiz on a regular basis..


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Derwydd Road is the final closed station on this Welsh journey.


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We now move to the Midlands for the next journey...

This quiz is number 117 so far...

The journey starts at the CLOSED station of Mossley Halt
It follows the line of the Biddulph Valley Line
It then follows the line of the Stoke to Market Drayton line
It then follows the line of the Wellington and Drayton Railway
It then follows the line of the Wellington and Craven Arms Railway
It then follows the line of the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway
It then follows the line of the Cotswold Line
It then follows the line of the Ledbury and Gloucester Railway
It then follows the line of the Bristol and Gloucester Railway....using the Fishponds loop line
It then follows the line of the Bristol to Exeter line....using the Worle loop line
It then follows the line of the North Devon Railway
It then follows the line of the North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway
It then follows the line of the North Cornwall Railway
The journey ends at the CLOSED station of Padstow

The first closed station on this journey is Mossley Halt

 

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Biddulph

 

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Knypersley Halt

 

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Black Bull

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Black Bull

Already we have an early bone of contention, as my "dog-eared" map shows...Bradley Green following Knypersley Green, then Childerplay...then your posting of Black Bull

Any observations on this ?

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The station that my very old map shows after Black Bull is....


Ford Green and Smallthorne

 

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Already we have an early bone of contention, as my "dog-eared" map shows...Bradley Green following Knypersley Green, then Childersplay...then your posting of Black Bull

Any observations on this ?

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The station that my very old map shows after Black Bull is....


Ford Green and Smallthorne

Bucknall and Northwood



You may well be right - but they will have been very early closures (not in the 1922 pregrouping atlas.)

I can find no settlements of those names on modern maps - but there is a Childerplay Road (no s) between Knypersley and Brindley Ford just off the A527
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A bit more research turns up a pub called The Bradley Green in High Street Biddulph - and a statement that Bradley Green was the original name for modern day Biddulph

 

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Fenton Manor

 

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Hartshill and Basford Hall or Halt??

 

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You may well be right - but they will have been very early closures (not in the 1922 pregrouping atlas.)

I can find no settlements of those names on modern maps - but there is a Childerplay Road (no s) between Knypersley and Brindley Ford just off the A527
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A bit more research turns up a pub called The Bradley Green in High Street Biddulph - and a statement that Bradley Green was the original name for modern day Biddulph

My railway map is one that is very much prior to the 1923 Grouping. Yes indeed, those two railway stations were very early station closures, which this quiz prides itself on finding wherever possible.
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Hartshill and Basford Hall or Halt??

Most definitely....HALT.

This was one of the two railway stations on this line that closed on 20th September 1926.
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