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Xenophon PCDGS

Xenophon PCDGS

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DerekC said:
From what I can see, the GNR station consisted of two extra platforms on the same site as and parallel to the LNWR platforms, which still exist. Should that count?
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Yes, as it there were two separate companies and the GNR station was the one on the line we are currently upon. The GNR Batley station was opened on 5th October 1864 and closed by the British Railways Board on 7th September 1964.
 
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Xenophon PCDGS

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Xenophon PCDGS said:
(Rule 6)....If two fairly adjacent but totally autonomous stations were opened by railway companies as two distinct stations albeit close to each other such as in the two Scottish cases of Motherwell Bridge and Motherwell (W&CR) and that of Kittybrewster (3rd station) and Kittybrewster (1st station) and the case of Batley (LNWR)(still open) and Batley (GNR)(now closed) stations (also noting the time differential of the closed station of Windsor Bridge, Pendleton and the much later opened station of Salford Crescent), then these must be viewed as separate entities and are allowed on this quiz.
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The above rule extract should be helpful.
 
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We next move to Scotland for the next journey.....

This is number 761 in the series so far.....

The journey starts at the closed station of Hoy
It follows the line of the Sutherland & Caithness Railway...Thurso Branch Line
It then follows the line of the Sutherland and Caithness Railway
It then follows the line of the Duke of Sutherland's Railway
It then follows the line of the Sutherland Railway
It then follows the line of the Inverness and Ross-shire Railway
It then follows the line of the Inverness and Nairn Railway
It then follows the line of the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway
It then follows the line of the Great North of Scotland Railway Main Line...via Aberdeen Waterloo (note a 2nd Kittybrewster station appears)
It then follows the line of the Aberdeen Railway
It then follows the line of the Arbroath and Forfar Railway
It then follows the line of the Forfar and Brechin Railway
It then follows the line of the Brechin and Edzell District Railway...note that one station was renamed no less than three times in 1912
The journey ends at the closed station of Edzell

The first closed station on this journey is Hoy
 
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