Station association

[RDP]

Menheniot is another DfT category F2 station managed by GWR.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Neither Menheniot or St Germans stations have a ticket office or a ticket machine, so tickets must be bought on trains in both cases.

 

[D6130]

Berwick-upon-Tweed station is also situated at the end of a large viaduct.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

For approximately five months in 1979, Berwick-upon-Tweed was the terminus for services from London King's Cross after the East Coast Main Line was blocked by the collapse of Penmanshiel Tunnel. Buses linked the station with Dunbar, from where a railway shuttle service continued to Edinburgh Waverley.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Johns was also the scene of a rail accident in 1898.

 

[RDP]

Deal is another DfT category E station managed by Southestern.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sandwich was also opened by the South Eastern Railway in 1847.

 

[D6130]

Ham Street is named after one of the most common fillings in a Sandwich (I'll get my coat!)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rainhill is also a Grade II listed railway station.

 

[RDP]

Rose Hill ,Marple is another DfT category E station managed by Northern.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hadfield is also now a terminal station for normal heavy rail services on what was once a through line.

 

[RDP]

The only station east of Hadfield on the former Woodhead route still open is Penistone although only the platforms on the line to Huddersfield remain in use.

 

[D6130]

Lockwood is also situated at the end of a tall viaduct.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[Springs Branch]

Liverpool Lime Street also has direct trains to both Huddersfield and Sheffield.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Reading is also managed by Network Rail.

 

[RDP]

There are two different electrification systems at Reading. This is also the case at Ashford International.

 

[D6130]

Basingstoke also has a Regional Operations Centre.

 

[RDP]

Southampton Central is another DfT category B station managed by SWR.

 

[D6130]

Durham is another station served by Arriva Cross Country trains.

 

[RDP]

Newark Northgate is another DfT category C1 station managed by LNER.

 

[Springs Branch]

Flat railway crossings are few and far between in Britain. Two examples can be found adjacent to Newark Northgate, and near the National Rail station at Porthmadog. (The latter example is a flat crossing between standard gauge and narrow gauge tracks)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Talsarnau was also opened by the Aberystwith (sic) and Welsh Coast Railway in 1867.

 

[RDP]

Talsarnau is one of a number of low platform stations equipped with a Harrington hump.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Parton was also opened by the Whitehaven Junction Railway.

 

[D6130]

Until 1965, Parton had a namesake station on the Dumfries to Stranraer line.

 

[RDP]

Dumfries is home to ScotRail's southernmost train crew depot. The northernmost one is at Wick.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thurso is also a terminal station that was opened by the Sutherland and Caithness Railway in 1874.

 

[D6130]

Thurso is the Northernmost station in the UK. Penzance is the Southernmost.

 

[RDP]

Thurso is the Northernmost station in the UK. Penzance is the Southernmost.

Just beaten to it so-

Plymouth is another DfT category C1 station managed by GWR.