Station association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rochdale has a canal named after it, as does Lancaster

 

[Oswyntail]

Redditch - also had a roly-poly MP named "Smith"

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whalley has the ruins of an abbey (Whalley Abbey), as does Redditch (Bordesley Abbey).

 

[12CSVT]

Ribblehead also has a famous viaduct

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Preston has the river Ribble flowing through the town.....the same river starts at Ribblehead.

 

[gnolife]

Adlington (another station that can get shown on displays with the suffix Lancs)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Adlington(Cheshire) has the same town name as Adlington (Lancashire)

 

[Oswyntail]

Mansfield - birthplace of Rebecca Adlington

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirkby-in-Ashfield is a station on The Robin Hood Line, as is Mansfield.

 

[Oswyntail]

Oxford - where the Soprano Emma Kirkby read Classics (before my time, just)

 

[Buttsy]

Reading - used to have 2 stations next door to each other

 

[gnolife]

as a sarcastic sorta one - Manchester Piccadilly, where i spend a lot of time reading

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manchester Victoria station has Metrolink connections, plus through and terminal platforms for heavy rail services, as does Manchester Piccadilly station

 

[deltic1989]

Nottingham, has a connecting to light rail, namely net.

 

[transportphoto]

Sheffield, Supertram.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Huddersfield had an Iron Age settlement (Castle Hill) which was later used by the Brigantes tribe prior to the Roman occupation of Britain, as had Sheffield (which was a main military base of the Brigantes).

 

[Welshman]

Huyton

Harold Wilson, British PM in the 60's and 70s, was born in Huddersfield [ statue outside the station] and MP for Huyton.

 

[gnolife]

Newton-Le-Willows
another station thats just before a junction to a line leading to Wigan

 

[trentside]

Chester-le-Street

Sorry, very obvious one!

 

[LE Greys]

Chester, let's keep being obvious

 

[trentside]

Lincoln

Another town that was the site of a Roman legionary fortress.

 

[12CSVT]

Abraham Moss - the Abraham Lincoln connection

 

[Welshman]

Lostock

Code:- LOT

Abraham's nephew

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pwllheli had a Poor Law Union, as did Lostock (founded in 1837)

 

[Welshman]

Filey

Also used to have a Butlin's Holiday Camp nearby.

 

[LE Greys]

Frome, another small station with an unusual overall roof

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Buxton is in an area noted for quarrying, as is Frome.

 

[Welshman]

Bath

another spa town

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glossop station has a supermarket built on most of its land, as happened in Bath.

 

[Oswyntail]

"Tubby" Glossop appears in PG Wodehouse books
"Tubby" Hayes was a well-known jazz musician