Station association

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Slade Green station also has a ticket office, although this one is only open during the morning and at lunchtime.

 

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Another station (amongst a fair few) with "Green" in its name is Greenfield station, on the Huddersfield Line in Greater Manchester.

 

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Sowerby Bridge was also once served by a long-closed branch line.

 

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Mirfield also had a motive power depot that was closed shortly after the opening of the new diesel depot at Healey Mills in the mid-1960s.

 

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Smithy Bridge also has an hourly service to Wigan North Western in the daytime.

 

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Huncoat also has a level crossing at the platform ends.

 

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Rishton is another station on the East Lancashire Line that was relocated from the original station site.

 

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Church & Oswaldtwistle is also a station where only one of its two platforms has step-free access. In this case, however, it's the Preston bound one, whereas at Rishton it's the Colne bound one.

 

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Burnley Central was also opened by the East Lancashire Railway in 1848.

 

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The Borough of Burnley has five railway stations: Hapton, Rose Grove, Manchester Road, Central and Barracks. They are all on the East Lancashire Line, with the exception of Burnley Manchester Road, which is on the Calder Valley Line.

 

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Clitheroe was also closed in the early 1960s and then subsequently re-opened some years later.

 

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Clitheroe is at the northern end of the Ribble Valley Line, which runs from Manchester Victoria. The station is normally the terminus, but occasional passenger services do continue north towards Hellifield, where the line joins the Settle to Carlisle Railway.

 

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Wennington is also a remote former Midland Railway rural junction station that formerly had a turntable for steam locomotives.

 

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Mr James P Allanach was the station master at Wennington between c1869 to 1873, when he moved to the same post at Clapham on the Bentham Line.

 

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Giggleswick was also opened by the "Little" North Western Railway in 1849.

 

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Between ca.1862 and 1876, Mr Joseph Smith was the station master at Giggleswick, before moving onto New Mills (now New Mills Central) where he was from 1879.

 

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Goole also has 2 platforms, a nearby signalbox and a siding for terminating services.

 

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Goole station is mentioned in the song "Slow Train" by Flanders and Swann ("No one departs, no one arrives, From Selby to Goole") about various closed lines on the British railway network. Selby and Goole stations were not threatened by Beeching, though the line "from Selby to Goole" mentioned in the song was closed to passengers.

 

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Stalybridge is also a station that is managed by TransPennine Express but likewise to Selby, is also served by Northern.

 

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Ashton under Lyne was also opened by the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway.

 

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Westhoughton is another station along the route of an active electrification project (no wires to be seen at either place yet).

 

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Like Westhoughton, Warwick station is also situated slightly away from the town centre to the north, being around a 10 minute walk away.

 

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Leamington Spa was also opened by the Great Western Railway in 1852.

 

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Cardiff Central (formerly General) was also given an art deco - style makeover by the Great Western Railway in the early 1930s.

 

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Wrexham Central is also a Welsh railway station containing Central as its suffix.

 

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Blackpool North is also a terminal station currently occupying a different station site to that originally situated.

 

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Southport is also a terminus station with six platforms.

 

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Rochdale is another station currently having fewer operational platforms than in its heyday.

 

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Jewellery Quarter also has an adjacent tram stop.

 

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Eastham Rake is also a DfT category E station that was opened in 1995.