Station association

[D6130]

Ribblehead is also situated close to a famous viaduct.

 

[Purple Train]

Cwmbran also reopened in 1986.

 

[RDP]

Cwmbran is the southernmost station on the North & West line (Newport-Crewe). The northernmost station is Nantwich.

 

[D6130]

Nantwich was formerly the junction for a through secondary line via Market Drayton, the other end of which was at Wellington.

 

[Springs Branch]

Before the 1923 Grouping, Wellington was jointly owned by the LNWR and GWR.

Another station under joint LNWR & GWR ownership (and co-incidentally you could travel directly between the two on a Birkenhead - Paddington train) was Hooton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dyce was also once served by a long-closed branch line.

 

[RDP]

The other station on the Aberdeen-Inverness line serving an airport is Inverness Airport.

 

[OxtedL]

Aylesham serves a former coal mining community so does Merthyr Vale.

We think this is probably a Settlement Association link rather than a Station Association link which should be rail related, but let's carry on anyway

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Kintore station is also situated near to the site of a previously closed station.

 

[Purple Train]

Worcestershire Parkway also opened in 2020.

 

[RDP]

Lichfield Trent Valley is also a three platform split level station.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Deal is also a DfT category "E" station that was opened in 1847.

 

[RDP]

Deal is the last station in Kent with semaphore signals, the last such station in East Sussex is Hastings.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bromley North also had its station buildings upgraded in 1925 to the design of the Chief Architect of the Southern Railway, James Robb Scott.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Bromley North is the terminus of the short Bromley North Branch Line, which has one other station, that being Grove Sundridge Park.

 

[RDP]

Bromley North is the terminus of the short Bromley North Branch Line, which has one other station, that being Grove Park.

I think you mean Sundridge Park.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

I think you mean Sundridge Park.

Correct; contribution amended - thanks.

 

[RDP]

The Grove Park-Bromley North service which serves Sundridge Park is normally worked by Networkers. Another such service is that between Victoria and Dartford

 

[EbbwJunction1]

In 1961, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards met by chance at Dartford station, going on to be the core writing team of the Rolling Stones; there is a plaque on the London-bound platform to commemorate this fact. Another station with a plaque marking a pop music occasion is Widnes, which is generally believed to be the station where Paul Simon reputedly composed the song "Homeward Bound" in 1965.

 

[RDP]

Widnes was formerly known as Widnes North. Likewise Dorking was formerly known as Dorking North.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

There are facilities for parking bicycles at both Dorking and Dorking (Deepdene) stations.

 

[RDP]

Dorking (Deepdene) is one of two stations in the town managed by GWR, the other one is Dorking West.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Signals on the part of the North Downs Line that goes through Dorking West station are worked from a signal box at Reigate station.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Betchworth was also opened by the Reading, Guildford and Reigate Railway in 1849.

 

[RDP]

Betchworth is the second station from Redhill on the Guildford line. The second on the Tonbridge line is Godstone.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Reigate is the first station from Redhill on the Guildford line. The first on the Tonbridge line is Nutfield.

I appear to have made an association to Reigate just before you posted that one.

 

[RDP]

Suitably amended

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ardwick is also a station that was opened in 1842 and having the lowest DfT category rating of F2.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Ardwick has a peak-hour-only service of one train inbound from New Mills Central to Manchester in the morning, and one train outbound to Rose Hill Marple in the evening (Monday – Saturday only). The only station from which a direct daily return to Ardwick is possible (without changing) is therefore Romiley, which is called at by both services.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Woodley was also opened by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1862.