Station association

[keyesey07]

Crewe is also a station that is DfT category B, and is outside of a country that a TOC that serves it is named after. (Carlisle - ScotRail, Crewe - TfW, apologies if it's worded awkwardly)

 

[Tetragon213]

Peterborough is also served by 7 TOCs

 

[keyesey07]

Newport (South Wales) is another DfT category B station opened in the Summer of 1850

 

[CPG]

Office of Road and Rail latest passenger flow stats show that the most popular destination, not served by through trains from Newport is to Cathays

 

[keyesey07]

Both Cathays and University (Birmingham) are adjacent to Russell Group universities

 

[CPG]

Lelant Saltings was another station which also opened in May 1978

 

[Tetragon213]

Hayle is the other side of St Ives Junction

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Erth was also opened by the West Cornwall Railway in 1852.

 

[Tetragon213]

St James Park is another GWR station just before a junction to a GWR-only branch line.

 

[CPG]

Redland is another GWR station that has bucked the national trend by having considerably greater passenger usage post Covid (2019/20 compared with 2023/24 ORR passenger stats)

 

[keyesey07]

Llantwit Major is another DfT category F2 station that was (first) opened in 1897

 

[Tetragon213]

Rhoose Cardiff International Airport is also the penultimate station on the VOG when counting in the opposite direction.

 

[keyesey07]

Officially speaking, Rhoose Cardiff International Airport has the longest name* of any station in the UK. Unofficially, the title belongs to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
*as recognised by National Rail

 

[Tetragon213]

Officially speaking, Rhoose Cardiff International Airport has the longest name* of any station in the UK. Unofficially, the title belongs to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
*as recognised by National Rail

It's a shame they don't write out the name in full on tickets!

Following on from Llanfairpwll station, Treforest Estate also has signs reminding drivers at the preceding stations to check if they stop here.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Longcross was also fully opened to passenger traffic in 1942.

 

[Tetragon213]

Chertsey is the first station on the opposite branch of Virginia Water Junction

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Addlestone was also opened by the London and South Western Railway in 1848.

 

[keyesey07]

Kingswood is another category E station in the county of Surrey

 

[CPG]

Banstead is another of a small number of stations outside of London but within London fare zone 6

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Belmont is also a single-platform DfT category rated F1 station that was opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1865.

 

[CPG]

Wemyss Bay station also opened in May 1865, a week before Belmont

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aberdeen is also a Scottish Category A listed railway station.

 

[SteveyBee131]

Aberdeen is the Northern terminus of a named service from London run by LNER, "The Northern Lights". Another LNER named service, "The West Riding Limited", starts at Bradford Forster Square.

 

[Tetragon213]

A regular idea that gets floated is of a Bradford Crossrail project, linking Forster Square to Bradford Interchange

 

[Thornaby 37]

Trains also have to reverse at Battersby in order to continue their journey

 

[RDP]

Carmarthen is also a terminus that was once a through station.

 

[Tetragon213]

From Carmarthen, it was once possible to reach Aberystwyth over the Carmarthen-Aberystwyth line

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bognor Regis is also a DfT category "D" terminal station that was opened in 1864.

 

[D6130]

Littlehampton is also a four platform South Coast terminus equipped with semaphore signals.

 

[RDP]

Shoreham by Sea is another DfT category D station in West Sussex.