Station association

[RDP]

Deal also still has semaphore signals.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[Springs Branch]

Southend Central also saw arrival of electric trains in 1961

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Benfleet station has also had it's ticket office redeveloped by C2C.

 

[RDP]

Basildon is another DfT category C2 station managed by c2c.

 

[D6130]

Apsley also has a brand of writing paper named after it. (If anyone can remember pads of writing paper!)

 

[OxtedL]

Hi - please could the associations on this thread be rail related.
Does anyone have a rail related association from Basildon?

 

[D6130]

Hi - please could the associations on this thread be rail related.
Does anyone have a rail related association from Basildon?

Apologies....getting my quizzes mixed-up again!

Basildon is located on the C2C (formerly known as the London Tilbury & Southend) line....which actually terminates at Shoeburyness.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lenham is also a DfT category "E" station that was opened in 1884.

 

[RDP]

Lenham is two stations from Ashford International on the Maidstone East line. Appledore is two stations from Ashford International on the Marshlink.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ulverston is also a Grade II listed railway station.

 

[RDP]

Haltwhistle also had a long closed branch line part of which is now a heritage railway.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bardon Mill was also opened by the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway in 1838.

 

[RDP]

Bamford is another DfT category F2 station managed by Northern.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Grindleford is also a station that was opened by the Midland Railway on its Dore and Chinley line in 1894.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Mr R J Dowthwaite was the Station Master at Grindleford from 1932, and held the same position from 1931 at Hathersage, possibly at the same time.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Braystones is another station site where the LMS situated a camping coach.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Braystones station is an unstaffed request stop, and is situated directly on the coast in a remote location. Pearson's 1992 railway guide (Pearson's Railway Rides, The Cumbrian Coast. J M Pearson & Son, Staffs, 1992) is moved to comment, "The tiny halts at Braystones and Nethertown are as remote as anything British Rail has to offer...".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[RDP]

Rye is also a passing place on a single line.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The station building at Rye was designed by William Tress, architect to the South Eastern Railway; he also designed the station at Battle.

 

[RDP]

Margate is another DfT category D station managed by Southeastern.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Margate station was rebuilt in 1926 by the Southern Railway's Chief Assistant Architect, Edwin Maxwell Fry CBE RA FRIBA FRTPI (1899 – 1987). The station at Dumpton Park was another of his designs, although it has since been demolished.

 

[RDP]

Dumpton Park is a single island platform as is Folkestone Central.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Services on the South Eastern Main Line pass through Folkestone Central on their way to Dover Priory, where they terminate.

 

[RDP]

Gravesend is another three platform station managed by Southeastern.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Retford is also a DfT category C2 station that was opened in 1849.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Both Retford and Greenhithe for Bluewater stations have a car park with accessible spaces.

 

[RDP]

Belvedere is another DfT category E station managed by Southeastern.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Both Belvedere and Woolwich Dockyard stations have an induction loop in their ticket office.