Station association

[D6130]

Brampton (Cumberland) was also once the junction for a long-closed branch line.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wetheral was also opened by the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway in 1836.

 

[RDP]

Wetheral is the first station from Carlisle on the Tyne Valley line. Armathwaite is the first station from Carlisle on the Settle & Carlisle line.

 

[D6130]

Settle also has a signalbox which has been restored as a museum and opens to the public on selected dates.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Knaresborough is also a Grade II listed railway station.

 

[SteveyBee131]

Goole is also situated adjacent to a level crossing with supervising signal box. However the signals here are all colour lights, whilst those at Knaresborough are semaphore.

 

[RDP]

Burnley Central is another DfT category E station managed by Northern.

 

[Springs Branch]

Until renaming in 1944 Burnley Central was known as Burnley Bank Top.

Another station which formerly carried the 'Bank Top' suffix was Darlington.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hull Paragon is also a Grade II* listed railway station.

 

[RDP]

Huddersfield is another DfT category B station managed by TPE.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bristol Temple Meads is also a Grade I listed railway station.

 

[SteveyBee131]

Bristol Temple Meads was originally a terminus station with no through platforms, being rebuilt with through platforms some years after opening. A similar situation happened at York station.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Littlehampton was also the scene of a rail accident in 1920.

 

[RDP]

Bognor Regis is also served by a branch line off the West Coastway.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

London Fenchurch Street is also a four-platform terminal station.

 

[RDP]

Unusually for a London terminus Fenchurch Street is not directly managed by Network Rail being managed by c2c. Another such example is Marylebone which is managed by Chiltern Railways.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Seven Kings was also opened in 1899.

 

[Springs Branch]

Harrow & Wealdstone was also the site of a major accident involving an express train passing signals at danger and colliding with the rear of a local train.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hemel Hempstead was also opened by the London and Birmingham Railway in 1837.

 

[RDP]

Leighton Buzzard is another DfT category C2 station managed by WMT.

 

[Springs Branch]

LBZ is the three-letter station code for Leighton Buzzard.

The same three letters, rearranged, form the station code for LZB - Lazonby and Kirkoswald.

 

[Purple Train]

The long-serving John Holloway Sanders was the architect responsible for designing the station buildings on the Settle & Carlisle line, including those at Lazonby & Kirkoswald, in a style that became known as Derby Gothic. Sanders was also responsible for the original station buildings at Sheffield.

 

[RDP]

Elmers End is also served by trams.

 

[Springs Branch]

London Charing Cross was also opened in 1864.

 

[RDP]

Exeter St. Davids also has six platforms.

 

[Thornaby 37]

Trains towards London depart Oxford in both directions

 

[methethpropbut]

The other end of the East West Rail is Cambridge

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Appledore is also a Grade II listed railway station.

 

[RDP]

Poppleton is also single track in one direction only.

 

[D6130]

Poppleton is the first station out from York on the Harrogate line. Burley Park is the first one out from Leeds at the other end of the same line