Station association

[MidnightFlyer]

Margate - also a town that I have ventured to this year to bash a crossover!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Morecambe is a seaside resort like Margate.....but much quieter!!!

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Welshpool - also had its station resited in the late 20th Century

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cleethorpes has a light railway system (Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway), as does Welshpool (Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway).

 

[trentside]

Barton-on-Humber, the other end of the Barton line services.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

North Queensferry is a station near a bridged water crossing (Forth Bridge), as is Barton-on-Humber (Humber Bridge)

 

[Welshman]

Dunfermline Queen Margaret

Queen Margaret of Scotland ensured there was a ferry across the Forth to allow her to travel from Dunfermline to Edinburgh Castle. Hence "The Queen's Ferry"

Her last journey on the ferry was to her burial in Dunfermline Abbey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manchester Victoria shares a similarity to Dunfermline Queen Margaret as both stations refer to a female member of a royal family.

 

[Welshman]

Southend Victoria

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

EDIT ...thinking of Sheffield Victoria. Open Forum.

 

[Oswyntail]

Warwick Deeping, the obscure English author, was born in Southend

 

[Buttsy]

Flitwick - Warwick Davis plays Professor Flitwick in the Harry Potter films

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

That last one was a bit of a mind stretcher to follow, so:-

YORK once had a motte-and-bailey defensive structure (near the Castle Museum but NOT Clifford's Tower), as did Flitwick (The Mount),

 

[Welshman]

Lewes

another settlement on a River Ouse

 

[oattam09]

Looe for obvious toilet related reasons or the singular of Lewes!

 

[MidnightFlyer]

How is 'Lewes' related to a toilet? It's pronounced 'Lew-is'...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newquay is a terminal station on a branch line, as is Looe.

 

[Oswyntail]

Newquay is a terminal station on a branch line, as is Looe.

Sellafield - a hotbed of the Nukie industry

 

[blackettstreet]

Sellafield - a hotbed of the Nukie industry

Barrow also has one line sandwiched between two platforms

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Barrow also has one line sandwiched between two platforms

Check your Quail Map (No. 4) - it has nothing of the sort, but Ascot does

 

[blackettstreet]

Check your Quail Map (No. 4) - it has nothing of the sort, but Ascot does

oh gosh, sorry, i was thinking of ulverton!

 

[Zoe]

Ascot

Wimbledon, the tennis tournament is held the week after Royal Ascot.

 

[Welshman]

Wellington

The scientifically-inclined, absent-minded, insecure guitarist in the Wombles.
{forget the fact this Wellington was named after the school in Somerset, not the town in Shropshire! }

 

[oattam09]

Sevenoaks

Also the name of a Southern Railway's 'Schools' class kettle.

 

[12CSVT]

Sevenoaks

Also the name of a Southern Railway's 'Schools' class kettle.

Reading has regular clockface departures to more than one London terminal

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Castleton has CE plant sidings, as does Reading

 

[LE Greys]

Hitchin is also being rebuilt with a grade-separated junction

 

[12CSVT]

Hitchin is also being rebuilt with a grade-separated junction

Longport was also used as a storage point for ex Fastline locos after they went bankrupt.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Uttoxeter was a station of the North Staffordshire Railway, as was Longport

 

[Oswyntail]

Uttoxeter ...

was the site of the last Royalist surrender in the English Civil War, carried out by the Duke of Hamilton