Station association

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Metheringham also has a level crossing adjacent to the station.

 

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Ruskington is also a DfT category F2 station that was originally opened by the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway in 1882.

 

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Spalding also offers storage for bicycles.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sleaford is also a DfT category "E" station that was opened by the Great Northern Railway.

 

[SteveyBee131]

Grimsby Town is another station with 3 platforms and a level crossing in the vicinity at both ends.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Langwathby was also the scene of a rail accident in 1930.

 

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Langwathby station was designed by the Midland Railway's architect John Holloway Sanders and opened in 1876. Ilkley station was also designed by him, but opened eleven years before, in August 1865.

 

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Newquay is also a terminal station of a branch line.

 

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The Atlantic Coast Line from Par to Newquay is a community rail service, supported by marketing provided by the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership. One aspect of the this is the Rail Ale Trails, one of which is the Atlantic Coast Line. It was launched in 2005, and among the 15 pubs there are three in Newquay and two near St Colomb Road station.

 

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Reddish South is another single-track station where the only entrance/exit from the single platform is a gate leading directly onto an adjacent road.

 

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Another station with a 'parliamentary' service just one day a week is Brigg, although it has 3 trains in each direction, so fares better than Reddish South, which has only one.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Habrough was also opened by the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway in 1848.

 

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Barmouth is another station where changing platforms requires the use of a level crossing.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Frinton-on-Sea is also a DfT category "E" station that was opened in 1867.

 

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When the first 25kV AC electrification schemes were commissioned around 1959/60, Frinton-on-Sea was on the Eastern Region's first line to be electrified at the "full monty" 25,000V voltage.
The Scottish Region's first foray into 25kV was on the North Clyde line serving, among other places, Dumbarton Central.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dalreoch was also opened by the Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway in 1850.

 

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Dumbarton East is also in SPT Fare Zone 2.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Neston was also opened in 1896.

 

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Neston is the last station on the English part of the Borderlands Line before it reaches Wales; Hawarden Bridge is the first station on the Welsh side.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brundall Gardens is also a DfT category F2 station that was opened in 1924.

 

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Brundall Gardens station was once named as a "halt". There are two mainline railway stations which are still named in this fashion, one of which is Coombe Junction Halt.

 

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Between April 2014 and March 2015, Coombe Junction Halt was the second-least used station in Great Britain, with 26 passenger entries and exits. The least used station in Great Britain that year, with 22 passenger entries and exits, was Shippea Hill.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Grantham was also the scene of a rail accident in 1906.

 

[SteveyBee131]

Another station on the ECML served by LNER and East Midlands Railway is Newark North Gate.

 

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Dore (and Totley) is another station where there is ambiguity about the name. (North Gate vs Northgate).

 

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Another station situated at a junction but with platforms only on one arm of the junction is Ravensthorpe.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Halling is also a DfT category F2 station that was opened in 1890.

 

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There is a junction to a cement works near Halling; a similar junction, albeit to a gravel pit, is near to Yalding.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Umberleigh was also the site of a camping coach.

 

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Morden South is also a DfT Category F2 station.