Station association

[FQ]

Windermere is at the end of a branch line that starts at Oxenholme Lake District.

 

[backontrack]

St Ives is also only served by one branch line.

 

[cjp]

In 2013 the queen traveled to St Ives on a scheduled train service the Diamond Jubilee royal train not being able to go beyond St Erth at the start of the branch

 

[johnnychips]

Stourbridge Junction also has three platforms.

 

[cjp]

From one of which run the service to Stourbridge Town - using a class 139 bus thingy on rails?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Alloa is also a single platform terminal station on a very short branch line.

 

[johnnychips]

Laurencekirk is also a Scottish railway station where actual passenger numbers far exceeded those projected on opening/reopening.

 

[High Dyke]

Matlock Bath was another station closed in 1967 but subsequently reopened.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glossop is also a single-platform Grade II listed railway station in Derbyshire.

 

[Robinson]

Hazel Grove is another commuter station where electrification ends, which saw services provided by Scottish-built class 303 units for a time in the mid-late 1980s.

 

[Darren R]

Bromley Cross also has a signal box on the platform.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Birkdale is another station that was opened in 1848, saw services operated by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and currently the holder of a DfT category rating of "E".

 

[ATW Alex 101]

Aintree is also on the ME network and the name is also the name of a place where some sort of event resulting in masses of people is held.

 

[Darren R]

Nelson is another station originally named after a local pub.

(The current Aintree station being named Aintree Sefton Arms prior to 1968.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brierfield is another single platform station (once two platforms) that was opened by the East Lancashire Railway in 1849.

 

[ATW Alex 101]

Duffield also has the word 'field' in it.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Adlington (Lancashire) is another station that was opened in 1841 and currently holding a DfT category rating of F2

 

[iantherev]

Gillingham (Dorset) is another station which shares a name with another NR station)

 

[Darren R]

Carlisle station was also designed by Sir William Tite.

 

[FQ]

Carstairs also has Car in the name.

 

[Darren R]

Preston is another station on the West Coast Main Line that used to see trains dividing/joining (seperate portions of Scotland trains to/from Liverpool and Manchester.)

 

[FQ]

Lancaster also sees TPE class 350s and 185s, is on the WCML and has a shortish branch line Westbound.

 

[Darren R]

Northampton also used to carry the suffix 'Castle' until the 1960s.

 

[cjp]

London Midland provide a frequent service between Northampton and Birmingham New Street

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Liverpool Lime Street is also managed by Network Rail

 

[cjp]

Birmingham Moor Street is another station in a conurbation which is so close to another railway station that it could only be easily differentiated by appending a street name.

 

[FQ]

Birmingham New Street also has a street name and is in Birmingham.

 

[ATW Alex 101]

Clapham Junction also used to be a ****hole of a station until refurbishment works made it slightly better.

 

[FQ]

Clapham Junction also used to be a ****hole of a station until refurbishment works made it slightly better.

New Street Still is!

Clapham Junction is the busiest station for passenger trains and Barnetby is the busiest station for freight.

 

[Darren R]

Poulton-le-Fylde is also still controlled by semaphore signals.