Station association

[DarloRich]

Both Truro and Durham have Cathedrals near the station (although Durham is somewhat older!)

 

[12CSVT]

Both Truro and Durham have Cathedrals near the station (although Durham is somewhat older!)

At Laindon you have to pass through two sets of ticket gates to go from one platform to the other

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shoeburyness and Laindon are three platform stations opened by the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway, which are managed by c2c.

 

[Ivo]

Where?

A limited number of c2c services terminate (or start) at Thorpe Bay, not SRY, and head straght to (or from) the Carriage Sidings (of which there are 31 I believe).

Great. I've just sent us from the station to the immediate east at home to the immediate west!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Basildon and Thorpe Bay stations are both managed by c2c

 

[Ivo]

That's four in a row...

Amazingly, according to station patronage statistics, the busiest four stations in the country to have no railway interchange facilities at all outside of major urban areas (in fact, it may even include all such areas besides London) are in south Essex - and all begin with the letter "B"! Basildon is one; the other c2c example is Benfleet.

(The other two are Billericay and Brentwood.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

As the programme name says...."The only way is Essex"...so I am told :roll:

Chalkwell and Benfleet are both served by Class 357 Electrostars.

 

[Ivo]

Never watched it and don't intend to. And I also intend to take us away from home, but er...

Southend East was also opened in the early 1930s. (I didn't even need to look that one up )

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Never watched it and don't intend to.

In this, we share "an association" and a good sense of televiewing..

Runcorn East and Southend East have the same compass point in their names.

 

[Ivo]

Oh no... away from home... whatever will I do... :roll:

OK, seriously, next up is Yeovil Pen Mill. The lesser of two stations in an area in which the two are rather distant from one-another.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bedwyn and Yeovil Pen Mill are stations built by the Great Western Railway and are currently managed by First Great Western.

 

[Class172]

Sutton Coldfield and Bedwyn were both opened in 1862.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Harrow and Wealdstone (1952) and Sutton Coldfield (1955) were the scenes of train crashes at railway stations.

 

[Class172]

Tring and Harrow and Wealdstone are both served by Southern and LM.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shrewsbury and Tring are both five platform stations

 

[Robinson]

Hereford is another interchange station in England served mainly by (and operated by) Arriva Trains Wales.

 

[Ivo]

Westbury also sees a very limited non-stopping loco-hauled service.

 

[gg1]

Non stop services also bypass Frome via an avoiding line built by the GWR in the 1930s.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thurso and Frome both have wooden train sheds.

 

[Eagle]

Thurso is a nominal terminus station that only ever sees through services, like Battersby.

 

[Ivo]

The local major destination from Battersby is Middlesbrough.

 

[Class172]

Garforth is also served by FTPE and Northern.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Micklefield and Garforth were stations opened by the Leeds and Selby Railway.

 

[Eagle]

Newton-le-Willows is also one of Alliance Rail's proposed parkways.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thorpe-le-Soken also has a midddle... "-le-" ...in its name

 

[Eagle]

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Paul's non-railway-related link made me think I was on the Settlement Association thread. #truestory

 

[Robinson]

The same two French particles appear in the name Chapel-en-le-Frith.

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Halling was also destaffed in 1989

 

[AlterEgo]

Lichfield Trent Valley also has a PERTIS machine.

 

[Eagle]

London St Pancras also has terminating services on the high level and through services on the low.