Closed Stations Journey quiz

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Luffenham

 

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Now -- there was temporarily a station in Stamford, east of the still-open Midland station and at a junction between Great Northern and Midland metals. Does it count, or doesn't it? I'll guess that it does --Stamford (Water Street)

Is that not the same as the Stamford East terminal station which was situated in Water Street?

 

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Is that not the same as the Stamford East terminal station which was situated in Water Street?

I was in rather a hurry, to go out on what proved an aborted errand -- back home now, with leisure. Was going purely by Dewick's Complete Atlas of Railway Station Names, which aims at admirable thoroughness, but tends to raise more than a few chimeras. Dewick shows "Stamford East / GN" as a separate terminal station for the Essendine and Wansford lines; plus a connecting line between GNR and MR, diverging from GNR routes a little way east of the GNR terminus, and joining with the MR Syston -- Peterborough line at his supposed "temporary Water Street" station, on the Midland line a bit east of the current station. Have looked up Wiki, and also alternative"paper" sources -- all confirm the layout of tracks / routes as above, but make no mention of Dewick's putative "temporary Water Street" sta. -- and they do give Water Street as an alternative name to "East", for the GNR lines' terminal station. Moral -- in future, try always to check Mr. Dewick's tome against other sources.

 

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Morcott

 

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Seaton

 

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Rockingham

 

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Ashley & Weston

 

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Market Harborough LNWR

Two questions here. One - does this station count? (the MR station next to it is obviously still open). Two - where was the original LNWR station? It was evidently relocated in 1885, but the oldest map I can find at present is dated 1886!

 

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It has always been recognised on this quiz that the Rugby and Stamford Railway is the only one where the LNWR station at Market Harborough, opened in 1850, is allowable as a posting submission. The LNWR station was always in the same location. The Midland Railway shared the LNWR station from 1857 to 1884, when a new Midland Railway station was opened on its new line.

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Lubenham

 

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Theddingworth

 

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Welford & Kilworth

 

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Yelvertoft & Stanford Park

 

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Lilbourne

 

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Clifton Mill

 

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Kilsby & Crick

 

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Althorp Park

 

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Church Brampton

 

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Roade (reversing here)

 

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Blisworth (1st station - 1845 to 1853)

 

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Tiffield (ephemeral, I believe)

 

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Towcester

Note - I think we would have passed through the second site of Blisworth station (1853 to 1960) as well as the first.

 

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Blakesley

 

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Morton Pinkney

 

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Byfield

 

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Fenny Compton West

 

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North End

 

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Towcester

Note - I think we would have passed through the second site of Blisworth station (1853 to 1960) as well as the first.

Looking at the learned man's book again -- yes ! I'll admit, these "first and second" stations totally do my head in.

North End -- pipped-at !

 

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Burton Dassett Halt

 

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Kineton

 

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Ettington