Station association

[Tetragon213]

Where Liverpool St is the current busiest station, that title once belonged to London Waterloo

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Where Liverpool St is the current busiest station, that title once belonged to London Waterloo

That station was mentioned only two postings ago.

 

[Tetragon213]

That station was mentioned only two postings ago.

Apologies, struck through. New posting as follows:

Where Liverpool Street is the most used station in the UK, Denton is the least used

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blackrod was also once served by a long-closed branch line.

 

[High Dyke]

North Walsham is also a DfT Category F1 station.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hoveton & Wroxham was also opened by the Great Eastern Railway in 1874.

 

[Tetragon213]

Kidderminster also has a heritage railway station which shares a name

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Redruth is also a DfT category "D" station that was opened in 1852.

 

[RDP]

Staplehurst is also connected by bus to a town once served by a branch line from another station further along the same line.

Redruth is connected to Helston by Go Cornwall service 34 and was once served by a branch from the now closed Gwinear Road.

Staplehurst is connected to Hawkhurst by Arriva Kent & Surrey service 5 and was once served by a branch from Paddock Wood.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Goudhurst in Kent was also once administered by the Hundred of Cranbrook.

 

[RDP]

Goudhurst in Kent was also once administered by the Hundred of Cranbrook.

This is Station association.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

This is Station association.

My sincere apologies for disrupting the flow on this thread.

That incorrect posting has now been struck-through.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Staplehurst is also connected by bus to a town once served by a branch line from another station further along the same line.

Redruth is connected to Helston by Go Cornwall service 34 and was once served by a branch from the now closed Gwinear Road.

Staplehurst is connected to Hawkhurst by Arriva Kent & Surrey service 5 and was once served by a branch from Paddock Wood.

Headcorn was also opened by the South Eastern Railway on 31st August 1842.

 

[RDP]

The Kent & East Sussex Railway used to run from Headcorn to Robertsbridge.

 

[M-Train]

Whilst Robertsbridge offers a connection to a working heritage line, trains entering Woolwich will pass under a preserved station (North Woolwich) which was preserved standalone & no longer serves as a museum station.

 

[Tetragon213]

Acton Main Line is also purely served by Liz Line trains

 

[M-Train]

Battersea Park is another Zone 2 station which may be regarded as having an infrequent TfL service, this being the LO parliamentary.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Hackney Central is also a Zone 2 station that has OSI with a fellow Zone 2 station (Battersea Park has an OSI with Queenstown Road; Hackney Central has an OSI with Hackney Downs).

 

[Tetragon213]

The long-demolished East Curve one linked Hackney C to Dalston Jn

 

[ValleyLines142]

Gloucester also has 4 platforms.

 

[RDP]

Gloucester has the longest platform on the national network. The shortest is at Conon Bridge.

 

[Hamma52]

Harrogate was also opened in 1862

 

[SteveyBee131]

Lincoln is another station which has direct trains from London which terminate there using a through platform.

 

[Tetragon213]

Lincoln once had a dedicated Avoiding Line. Westbury still has one.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Frome is also a DfT category "D" station originally opened by the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway.

 

[Thornaby 37]

Weston Milton is a single platform station on a loop off a main line

 

[RDP]

The platform at Lympstone Commando was relocated from Weston Milton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gypsy Lane was also opened by British Rail in 1976.

 

[Tetragon213]

Llanfairpwll is also Category F2
(any excuse to use Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch!)

 

[RDP]

Queenborough is also the first station on an offshore island.