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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lympstone Village was also opened by the London and South Western Railway in 1861.

 

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Bradford Forster Square is also one of two stations serving the same settlement (the other stations being Lympstone Commando and Bradford Interchange).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hampton Court is also a terminal station with a DfT category rating of C2.

 

[Springs Branch]

Hampton Court saw the introduction of electric trains in 1916 - the same year electric trains began to run between Bury and Manchester Victoria.

 

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Manchester Victoria had electric services reintroduced in 2015 - the same year that electric services started serving Newton-le-Willows under the same electrification programme.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kensington Olympia was another hub station of the Motorail network.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Mr W Pedia tells us that Kensington (Olympia) was included in 1960s Cold War plans to ensure continuity of government in the event of hostilities. Secret plans entailed use of the station, in the prelude to a nuclear war, to evacuate several thousand civil servants to the Central Government War Headquarters underground bunker (codenamed "Burlington") in Wiltshire. Civil servants tasked with manning the facility would have been directed to join trains at this station, chosen since the West London Line connected to the Great Western Main Line (and hence Wiltshire) at North Pole Junction to the north. These trains would have connected with buses at Warminster station for further transfer to the bunker, which was near Corsham.

 

[D6130]

Andover also has sidings for military traffic.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

High Wycombe is also a DfT category C1 station that was originally opened in 1854.

 

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Garforth is also served by a few class 68 hauled trains as well as a majority share of DMUs

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Micklefield was also opened by the Leeds and Selby Railway in 1834.

 

[SteveyBee131]

Wakefield Westgate is another station which has platforms partly built on a bridge over a road

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sheffield is also a DfT category "B" railway station.

 

[SteveyBee131]

Doncaster is another station which has 9 platforms, but with no platform number 9!

(They both have 1 to 8, plus Doncaster has a 0, whilst Sheffield has a 2c with a separate platform face to 2a/b)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Farnborough (Main) was also the scene of a rail accident in 1947.

 

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Atherstone is also a two platform station on a four track electrified main line which is situated on a reverse curve.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Market Harborough also had its station buildings built to the design of the architect John William Livock.

 

[Purple Train]

Hanwell can also boast a Grade II listed station building.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ealing Broadway was also opened by the Great Western Railway in 1838.

 

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Greenford is also shared with the Central line of the London Underground.

 

[Purple Train]

Greenford was the last LU station to have wooden escalators in service. Wooden escalators were phased out as a result of the 1987 fire at Kings Cross.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manchester Piccadilly is also a DfT category " A" station that is managed by Network Rail.

 

[SteveyBee131]

It's also possible to interchange with tram services at Meadowhall.

 

[Purple Train]

MetroCentre is also named after a shopping centre.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Danescourt was also opened by British Rail in 1987.

 

[Springs Branch]

Burscough Junction also has no passenger service on Sundays.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Croston is also a single-platform station that was opened in 1849.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Rufford also has a station car park.

 

[Springs Branch]

Despite the pleasant rural scenery along the Ormskirk/Preston line, signalling at Rufford is now controlled not from a classic 'country' signal box, but a non-descript portakabin-style structure.

Another station where signal control has migrated from a historic timber 'box (on top of a gantry in this case) into an ugly portakabin is Canterbury West.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wateringbury is also a Grade II listed railway station.