Station association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nuneaton is also a seven-platform station.

 

[Springs Branch]

Temporarily during the project to electrify the southern WCML in the 1960s, Nuneaton was a location where trains switched between diesel and electric haulage.
During the 1970s northern WCML electrification scheme, the same practice took place at Preston.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Penmaenmawr was also the scene of a rail accident in 1950.

 

[SteveyBee131]

Drigg is also a request stop.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Seascale was also opened by the Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway in 1849.

 

[Springs Branch]

Of the 24 intermediate stations on the Cumbrian Coast line (Barrow and Carlisle excluded), Seascale is the 13th least patronised, with 48,456 entries & exits recorded during 2019/20.
Next down the popularity list, with 44,294 entries & exits, was Ravenglass for Eskdale.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Betwys-y-Coed also has a narrow-gauge railway adjacent to the main railway station.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

There is a public car park at Betws-y-Coed station, but there isn't one at Roman Bridge station.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Roche is also a single-platform station with the lowest DfT category rating of F2.

 

[Springs Branch]

Roche is a station on Cornwall's most recent Rail Ale Trail.
The original Cornish Rail Ale Trail uses the Tarka Line with a "refreshment stop", among others, at Umberleigh.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bere Ferrers also had a camping coach in the latter years of the 1930s.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The sidings alongside Bere Ferrers station form the Tamar Belle Heritage Centre. This includes some old carriages which are used as a restaurant and as camping coaches. The LSWR signal box was erected here in 1989 / 1990 but was formerly at Pinhoe station on the outskirts of Exeter.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pontefract Tanshelf is also a station with the lowest DfT category rating of F2 that was opened in 1871.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Unlike Pontefract Monkhill, both platforms of Pontefract Tanshelf are wheelchair-accessible.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Knottingley was also opened by the Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole Railway in 1848.

 

[SteveyBee131]

Knottingley has regular services to and from Leeds. 6 days a week a couple of these are extended to Goole.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Garswood is also a DfT category "E" station that was opened in 1869.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Bryn is another Merseyrail station that has step free access to only one of it's two platforms.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bryn is another Merseyrail station that has step free access to only one of it's two platforms.

Sorry, but Bryn is not a Merseyrail station and is one of the stations administered by Northern Trains and is in remit of Transport for Greater Manchester.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Sorry, but Bryn is not a Merseyrail station and is one of the stations administered by Northern Trains and is in remit of Transport for Greater Manchester.

Sorry, my mistake ... but the clue still stands.

 

[OxtedL]

Let's modify the link from "Merseyrail" to "vaguely near Liverpool" and move on.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cuddington was also opened in 1869.

 

[SteveyBee131]

Altrincham is also served by Northern services between Chester and Manchester Piccadilly

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Raynes Park was also the scene of a rail accident with fatalities in 1933.

 

[Springs Branch]

Wilmslow is another four-platform station with two platforms serving the main line and two on the branch.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Paddock Wood is also a DfT category C2 station that was opened in 1842.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Paddock Wood is the southerly junction of the Medway Valley Line with the South Eastern Main Line. At the northern end of the same line, Strood is the junction with the North Kent Line and the Chatham Main Line.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cuxton was also opened by the South Eastern Railway in 1856.

 

[LUYMun]

Whilst Southeastern trains calling at Cuxton travel to Tonbridge, some additional peak hour services extend to/from Maidstone West.

 

[Springs Branch]

Maidstone West has two side platforms, with a third non-platform line passing through the middle.
A similar layout is in place at Rhyl.