Station association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lincoln was also the scene of a rail accident in 1962.

 

[SteveyBee131]

Newcastle is another which for many years officially carried the suffix Central, though in modern times can be referred to either with or without in equal measure.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Crewe is also a 12-platform station.

 

[LUYMun]

Crewe Works, located near to Crewe station, is an engineering facility largely focused on general maintenance and inspection of seriously damaged trains. Eastleigh Works is another engineering facility where similar activities are practiced.

 

[SteveyBee131]

Dawlish Warren also has it's platforms on passing loops, with unplatformed fast lines to allow for overtaking.

 

[RDP]

Eggesford is another DfT category F2 station managed by GWR.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Umberleigh was also opened by the North Devon Railway in 1854.

 

[RDP]

Caersws is another station where there used to be a passing loop but where two passenger trains could not pass as there was only one platform.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Machynlleth was also opened by the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway in 1863.

 

[SteveyBee131]

Portion trains along the Cambrian Coast uncouple and join at Machynlleth, though they actually part or join ways at Dovey Junction, a few miles further west.

 

[RDP]

Corrour is also inaccessible by road.

 

[D6130]

Corrour is the highest standard gauge station in Scotland - and in the UK. Dent is the highest in England.

 

[RDP]

Denton is another DfT category F2 station managed by Northern.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Accrington was also once served by a long-closed branch line

 

[Springs Branch]

Accrington was once a location where slip coaches were detached from passing expresses.

Elsewhere, slip coaches appear to have been a particular speciality of the GWR. The last regular survivor of slip coach operation in BR (WR) days occurred until 1960 at Bicester North.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Enfield Chase is also a DfT category "D" station that was opened in 1910.

 

[RDP]

Although the Enfield area is served by several stations the most centrally situated one is Enfield Town.

 

[Springs Branch]

Helensburgh Central also saw the introduction of electric trains in 1960.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cardross was also opened by the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway in 1858.

 

[D6130]

Langbank is also situated on the shores of the Firth of Clyde....but on the opposite side from Cardross.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Paisley St James was also opened by the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway in 1841.

 

[Springs Branch]

There are three stations with the name 'Paisley'. Of these, Paisley St James has the lowest number of entries and exits in official statistics.

There are also three stations carrying the name 'Exeter'. Of these, the least used is Exeter St Thomas.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dawlish was also opened by the South Devon Railway in 1846.

 

[RDP]

Redruth is another DfT category D station managed by GWR.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Penzance was also opened by the West Cornwall Railway in 1852.

 

[RDP]

Penzance is one of the main termini of Inter City trains from Paddington. Another one is Swansea.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blackburn is also a four-platform station with a DfT category rating of C1.

 

[RDP]

Llandudno Junction is another four platform station with junctions at both ends.

 

[methethpropbut]

Stourbridge Junction is another "junction" station that has a branch to the settlement it is named after.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rochdale is also a station currently on a different station site to the one on which it was originally opened.