Station association

[Welshman]

Boston

also used to be a bustling railway centre but now much simplified.

 

[High Dyke]

Goxhill station also opened in 1848.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Coates was also opened by the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway and has the lowest DfT category rating of F2,

 

[High Dyke]

Kiveton Park was constructed by the Sheffield & Lincolnshire Junction Railway. It was one of the companies that merged with the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway to form the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Long Preston is another two platform station which was opened in 1849 that is now managed by Northern Rail and having the lowest DfT category rating of F2.

 

[High Dyke]

At the opposite end of the compass, operated by Southern, is Ore, another station that had its station buildings replaced by waiting shelters.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wem is another station whose station name and station code are identical.

 

[High Dyke]

Warnham station also had a signal box with an identity code of WM. It has also closed with control passed to another location.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Battersea Park was also opened in 1867 by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.

 

[High Dyke]

Beckenham Junction is another station that has a regular service on most routes, but does provide one train a day over a particular route.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Altrincham is another heavy rail station with terminal tram facilities.

 

[12CSVT]

Blaydon is another station where passenger trains to a nearby major city take a different route to what they did 40 years ago

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Riding Mill was also opened in 1835 by the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway.

 

[High Dyke]

Dent is also a Category F2 station on an important cross-country route.

 

[Robinson]

Kirkby Stephen is also a Settle & Carlisle Line station which lies some considerable distance outside the settlement it is named after.

 

[Darren R]

Uphall is another station that reopened in 1986.

 

[High Dyke]

Whiston is another station that connects two important city settlements.

 

[12CSVT]

Shildon is on the route of one of the very early public railways

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Heighington is another of the very few railway stations that were opened in 1825.

 

[Welshman]

Heighington was opened originally as Aycliffe Lane, then renamed Aycliffe and Heighington, then Heighington.

Manchester Piccadilly was originally named Store St , then London Rd, before becoming Piccadilly.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Liverpool Lime Street is also managed by Network Rail

 

[Darren R]

London Bridge also opened in 1836.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Reading is also a 15-platform station.

 

[Darren R]

Exeter St Davids is another station served by SWT, FGW and Cross Country.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pontefract Tanshelf is also one of three railway stations in a settlement that has the name of the settlement incorporated in the railway station name.

 

[Darren R]

Alfreton is another station closed as part of the Beeching Report but subsequently re-opened.

(When did it stop being Alfreton & Mansfield Parkway - I'm a bit behind the times it seems!)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

When did it stop being Alfreton & Mansfield Parkway - I'm a bit behind the times it seems!

Eighteen years ago in 1995...
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Alfreton is another station closed as part of the Beeching Report but subsequently re-opened.

Trent was also opened by the Midland Railway in 1862.

 

[High Dyke]

Trent was also opened by the Midland Railway in 1862.

And remained virtually unchanged in its 106 year history.

Ilkley was the last station to be lit by gas lamps.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ben Rhydding was another railway station to be opened in 1865 by the Otley and Ilkley Joint Railway

 

[Robinson]

Trent was also opened by the Midland Railway in 1862.

I thought only currently-open stations were valid on this particular quiz... :-?