Station association

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Bingham was also designed by Thomas Chambers Hine

 

[RDP]

The station code for Banbury is also the first three letters of the station name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Swansea is also a DfT category C1 station that was opened in 1850.

 

[RDP]

Whereas Swansea lost its High Street suffix Clapham later became Clapham High Street.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wandsworth Road is also a DfT category F1 station that was opened by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway.

 

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Surrey Quays is also exclusively served by the Windrush line of London Overground.

 

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Bootle New Strand has also been renamed twice, it's current name also reflecting it's proximity to a shopping centre.

 

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Bromborough is another DfT category E station managed by Merseyrail.

 

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Spital was also opened by the Chester and Birkenhead Railway.

 

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West Kirby is another Category E station on the opposite side of the Mersey from Liverpool

 

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New Brighton is also a terminal station on the Merseyrail network.

 

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Between 1960 and 1971 New Brighton had through trains from Wrexham Central.

 

[D6130]

Neilston is another branch terminus where the line originally continued further.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Muirend was also opened by the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway on 1st May 1903.

 

[SteveyBee131]

Dumfries is also operated by ScotRail

 

[RDP]

The long closed "Port Road" linked Dumfries to Stranraer.

 

[Tetragon213]

Pilning is another station where there are 2 platforms in situ, but only 1 is actually used.

 

[RDP]

Reddish South also only has a "parliamentary" service on Saturdays only.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wennington is also a DfT category F2 station that was opened in 1849.

 

[RDP]

The longest block section on the national network is between Carnforth Station Junction and Settle Junction signal boxes. Wennington is the first station from the Carnforth end while Giggleswick is the first station from the Settle Junction end.

 

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Giggleswick was renamed as such after Settle station effectively took the name.

 

[RDP]

The footbridge at Settle was relocated there in 1993 from Drem.

 

[D6130]

Drem is the junction station where the branch to North Berwick diverges from the East Coast Main Line.

 

[RDP]

Walton on the Naze is another single platform electrified branch terminus.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Frinton-on-Sea was also opened by the Tendring Hundred Railway in 1867.

 

[RDP]

March is another DfT category E station managed by Greater Anglia.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whittlesea was also opened by the Great Eastern Railway in 1847.

 

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On 14th September 1968, 4472 Flying Scotsman stopped at the station twice to have its tenders refilled with water. The locomotive was hauling The Chesterfield Flyer from Ipswich to (unsurprisingly!) Chesterfield.

 

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Leeds was also supposed to have been served by HS2...

grumble grumble...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manchester Piccadilly is also a DfT category "A " station that is managed by Network Rail.