Station association

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Aintree is also a DfT category "E" station that was opened in 1849.

 

[RDP]

Aintree is served by Merseyrail services between Liverpool Central and Ormskirk.

 

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Kirkby is another station which was once on a through line, but is now essentially two branches which meet at a set of bufferstops

 

[RDP]

Birkenhead Central is another DfT category E station managed by Merseyrail.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Birkenhead Hamilton Square was also opened by the Mersey Railway in 1886.

 

[Springs Branch]

Barnham is another three-platform station located at a junction.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sudbury is also a DfT category "D" station that was opened in 1864.

 

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Chappel & Wakes Colne is an intermediate station on the Gainsborough Line, which terminates at Sudbury.

 

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York also has an adjacent railway museum.

 

[RDP]

Newcastle is another DfT category A station managed by LNER.

 

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Pegswood is also on Northern Trains Route 1.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Letchworth Garden City was also opened in 1903.

 

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Electric operation at the station was inaugurated in 1978, as part of the Kings Cross Outer Suburban scheme, though the wires initially ended at Royston (Herts) until 1988.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

New Barnet was also opened by the Great Northern Railway in 1850.

 

[RDP]

Merstham is another DfT category D station managed by GTR.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Church Stretton is also on a different station site to the one originally situated.

 

[RDP]

Church Stretton is the first station from Shrewsbury on the line to Hereford. Wellington is the first station from Shrewsbury on the line to Wolverhampton.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The town of Wellington was designated as part of the new town of Telford in the 1960s. As Telford did not have its own railway station at first, Wellington station was renamed "Wellington – Telford West" to indicate that it now served the new town. After Telford Central station opened in 1986, Wellington eventually reverted to its original name, although this did not happen for a number of years.

 

[RDP]

Leighton Buzzard is another DfT category C2 station managed by West Midlands Trains.

 

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Leighton Buzzard is served by services between London Euston and Milton Keynes Central; these services also call at Apsley.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hoylake also had its 1930's station buildings constructed to the design of the architect William Henry Hamlyn.

 

[RDP]

Bromborough is another DfT category E station managed by Merseyrail.

 

[Springs Branch]

Hindley also historically had four platforms, now reduced to two.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The "Friends of Hindley Station" group was formed in 2007, with the aim of promoting the use of the station by improvements. One of these was to be influential in the creation of a direct link to Manchester Airport, which started in December 2008. This ended at the May 2018 timetable change and intending travellers now have to change at Manchester Piccadilly or Salford Crescent to reach the airport.

 

[RDP]

Wilmslow is another DfT category C2 station managed by Northern.

 

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Helsby also has two sets of two platforms on diverging routes.

 

[RDP]

Frodsham has also been adopted by the North Cheshire Rail Users Group.

 

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The Halton Curve (now formally known as the Frodsham Single Line) is a short bi-directional railway line which links the Chester to Warrington line to the Weaver Junction to Liverpool line. The route is between Frodsham Junction (north of Frodsham) and Halton Junction (south of Runcorn) and enables trains to run between the former and the latter.

 

[RDP]

Rugby is another DfT category C1 station managed by Avanti West Coast.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Between the early 1900s and the early 1920s, William Hedge held the post of station master at both Rugby and Watford Junction. He was at Watford Junction between 1902 and 1908, and at Rugby between 1908 and 1921.