Station association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Derby had a large locomotive works, as did Doncaster.

 

[150222]

...so did CREWE.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stafford was a station on the Grand Junction Railway, as was Crewe.

 

[deltic1989]

A bit morbid but there was also an accident involving diesel powered and electric powered trains at SELBY

 

[transportphoto]

Whitlingham is the next link, now closed, it was also near a site of a great rail crash.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lowestoft was a station on the Great Eastern Railway, as was Whitlingham (which incidentally was closed to passenger traffic in 1955).

 

[Oswyntail]

Arbroath is another centre of fisheries

 

[deltic1989]

As is GRIMSBY TOWN

 

[TrainfanBen]

Blackpool North is also served by both Northern Rail and First TransPennine Express.

 

[150222]

SQUIRES GATE serves that towns airport.

 

[LE Greys]

Reading was briefly a 'Gateway' station at the end of Intercity.

 

[150222]

BEDFORD MIDLAND also has a direct first group operated service to gatwick airport.

 

[12CSVT]

Swanwick Junction (Midland Railway Butterley) - another location where there is presently a class 31 with wheelset problems (ie 31459 at Bedford, 31271 at Swanwick)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Heywood is a former British Rail station that has been reopened by a preservation society (East Lancashire Railway), as is Swanwick Junction (Midland Railway-Butterley).

 

[12CSVT]

Radcliffe is a former British Rail station which is one stop away from Bury

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mytholmroyd was a station on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, as was Radcliffe.

 

[Welshman]

Hampstead Heath

Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was born in Mytholmroyd. He succeeded John Betjeman, who was born in Hampstead.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Yarmouth was one of the Shutter Telegraph stages from 1808 to 1814 that connected direct to The Admirality in London, as was Hampstead Heath.

 

[transportphoto]

Ok, an inventive one:

Kings Lynn - as with their titles Great and Kings respectively you would expect something good- theres nothing exciting about either!

TP

 

[TrainfanBen]

Peterborough, another person

-Couldn't think of anything else.

 

[gnolife]

]Peterborough, another person

-Couldn't think of anything else.

Stockport - one of the boroughs of Manchester

 

[blackettstreet]

Huddersfield - another station where the highest platform number is not equal to the number of platforms

 

[Oswyntail]

'Udders? Fields? Let's go to Cowdenbeath

 

[Welshman]

Better throw in the occasional Bulwell to keep the cows happy!

 

[12CSVT]

Birkbeck - single track running parallel to a light rail system

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Just getting ready to set off for Falmouth on our holidays, so I will have one last posting and say.........


As is Navigation Road (Manchester to Chester mid-Cheshire line and also Manchester Metrolink)

 

[TrainfanBen]

Lostwithiel

For obvious reasons...

 

[Welshman]

Lostock

 

[12CSVT]

Lostock

Thurnscoe also opened in May 1988

 

[Anon Mouse]

Metrocentre, another 1980's built station