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Tetragon213

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Although no passenger services do so, it is possible to reach Westerfield directly from Needham Market via the charmingly named Bacon Factory Curve.
 

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Shirehampton also had station staff withdrawn and services converted to paytrain operation in 1967
 

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Polsloe Bridge is also a GWR station with a single platform and no ticket purchasing facilities.
 

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Buxted is another station with a disused platform where a formerly double-track line has been singled.
 

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Buxted is the penultimate station on the Uckfield line while Dormans is the penultimate station on the East Grinstead line.
 

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Polegate is another station with historic roots in the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.
 

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Thetford also sees regular services operated by two-car Class 158 trains.
 

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Shepherds Well is also a station that's name should be one word. The places served being Hamstreet and Shepherdswell respectively.
 

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Aylesham was also built in the first half of the 20th century, on an existing line, to serve the expanding Kent coalfields
 

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Aylesham was also built in the first half of the 20th century, on an existing line, to serve the expanding Kent coalfields
OBSERVATION

The station to which you refer to above was originally opened by the Great Eastern Railway as Aylsham on 1st January 1880. On 27th September 1948, it was renamed Aylsham South.

It was closed to passengers on 15th September 1952 and to freight on 1st March 1977.
 

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Deal is another DfT category E station in the Dover District of Kent.

Aylesham station is in Kent not Norfolk. Note the different spelling.
 

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OBSERVATION

The station to which you refer to above was originally opened by the Great Eastern Railway as Aylsham on 1st January 1880. On 27th September 1948, it was renamed Aylsham South.

It was closed to passengers on 15th September 1952 and to freight on 1st March 1977.
I think you are confusing Aylesham in Kent - to which @CPG is referring - with Aylsham in Norfolk. Therefore Aylesham should still stand. ;)
 

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Bradford Interchange replaced the former Bradford Exchange station. Similarly Moorfields replaced Liverpool Exchange.
 

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Heald Green is another DfT category E station in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport.
 

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