Station association

[EbbwJunction1]

Morley is in Zone 2 of the West Yorkshire Metro 'MetroCard'. Also included in this ticket's validity is Todmorden.

 

[SteveyBee131]

Morley is in Zone 2 of the West Yorkshire Metro 'MetroCard'; the last station at which these tickets are valid is Todmorden.

For future reference, it is also permisible to travel to Walsden using a MetroCard, which is beyond Todmorden.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

For future reference, it is also permisible to travel to Walsden using a MetroCard, which is beyond Todmorden.

Thanks - I did see a reference to that, but I couldn't find confirmation, which is why I used Todmorden.

 

[A Challenge]

Thanks - I did see a reference to that, but I couldn't find confirmation, which is why I used Todmorden.

Do we continue from Todmorden or Walsden?

 

[FQ]

Continue from Todmorden - I'll just edit @EbbwJunction1's post slightly to reduce confusion.

 

[Esker-pades]

Hilsea is also located near a triangle junction.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Hilsea is on the Portsmouth Direct Line, as is Rowlands Castle.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Milford is also a DfT category "E" station that was opened in 1859 by the London and South Western Railway.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Milford station has the same name as the fictional station (having dropped its suffix of Junction) in the successful film Brief Encounter (1945). The platform scenes were filmed at Carnforth station in Lancashire.

 

[John Griffiths]

Didcot Parkway is also adjacent to a railway heritage centre.

 

[Springs Branch]

Stalybridge also has five platforms.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cheadle Hulme is also a DfT category "D" station that was opened in 1845.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Goostrey is also a station supported by the Crewe to Manchester Community Rail Partnership.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Handforth also has a volunteer-based "Friends of the station" group.

 

[johnnychips]

Broadbottom station also opened in 1842.

 

[SteveyBee131]

Dinting is another station where the service is currently usually in the sole hands of class 323 EMUs.

 

[johnnychips]

Shipley is also a station on a triangular junction, though Dinting only has platforms on two sides.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Twyford is also a five-platform station with a DfT category rating of "D".

 

[Esker-pades]

Slough is also an interchange between GWML services and a branch line.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Slough used to have a "Collecting Dog", called "Station Jim"; although he's been dead for many years, he's still there, mounted in a cabinet on the platform. Swindon's equivalent was called "Bruce", but he is long gone.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hastings is also a four-platform station with a DfT category rating of C1.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Hastings station was reconstructed in a neo-Georgian style in 1931 by the Southern Railway Architect James Robb Scott, who had been responsible for designing Wimbledon Chase station in 1930.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

New Hythe was also opened by the Southern Railway in 1929.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Yalding is also on the Medway Valley Line in Kent.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Reedham (Norfolk) is also a DfT category F1 station that was opened in 1844.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Somerleyton is also a station on the Wherry Lines in East Anglia.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Oulton Broad North is also a station that was opened in 1847 and currently having the lowest DfT category rating of F2.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Oulton Broad North station is on the Wherry Lines in the east of England, and is one of two stations serving Oulton Broad, Suffolk. The other is Oulton Broad South on the East Suffolk Line.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Woodbridge was also opened in 1859 and served by services of the Great Eastern Railway.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The station buildings at Woodbridge were designed by Frederick Barnes, who also designed other Suffolk stations such as Thurston, Elmswell and Bealings.