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[ValleyLines142]

Okie dokies!

Waun-Gron Park is also a station with a local cross-city service.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Danescourt and Waun-Gron Park are both on the City Line that re-opened to passenger traffic in 1987.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Cwmbran is also a two-platform station served entirely by Arriva.

 

[Ivo]

As with Cwmbran, Heswall - also a two platform station served by ATW - is disappointingly quiet for a town of its size.

 

[ValleyLines142]

As with Heswall, Craven Arms is a station in England served entirely by ATW.

 

[Eagle]

Faversham is also next to a branching point where trains can take either route to reach a particular station (Swansea and Dover being the ones I'm thinking of).

 

[Ivo]

Swansea isn't even alone in that sense; it's true of Llanelli as well.

Anyhow: Harrogate has also recently received a "high-speed" service to London.

 

[Eagle]

Blake Street has one service a day that terminates there in the evening, and one service that originates there in the morning.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Oh I wish I had got to Faversham quicker, this was my association!:

Southampton Central is another four-platform station with two different services to London (SWT to Waterloo; SN to Victoria), like Faversham (Southeastern to St Pancras and Victoria).

Anyway, from Blake Street, association is: Ashburys, another station with a name not related to the town.

 

[Eagle]

I take it you're not counting the unusable Platform 5 at Southampton? (Not that many services terminate from the west anyway, so it's a bit pointless... kind of like Stirling 4/5.)

 

[ValleyLines142]

I didn't know there was an extra unused platform actually, but anyway we're at Blake Street now

 

[Ivo]

You mean Ashburys, which you provided!

Ardwick is another underused station east of Manchester Piccadilly whose name begins with "A".

 

[ValleyLines142]

Before Ashbury's, we were from Blake Street.

Levenshulme is another station which is first station on a line off Manchester Picc.

 

[Eagle]

Achanalt also has a three-figure average annual passenger count.

 

[12CSVT]

Sandy is a two platform station on a four track line

 

[ValleyLines142]

Llantwit Major in the Vale of Glamorgan is another station with an hourly service in both directions.

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Doesn't Sandy have 4tph? I used to think that half ran semi-fast from Hitchin-Peterborough, but I don't think that's correct anymore.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Doesn't Sandy have 4tph? I used to think that half ran semi-fast from Hitchin-Peterborough, but I don't think that's correct anymore.

You may be right. I have just done a div thing and looked at live departures about half an hour ago and noticed that services were hourly; therefore I assumed this was the pattern all day, but of course in the peak-hours I'm sure there'll be more services into the capital than 1tph. :P

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Half-hourly each way off-peak too

Back to Llantwit Major then.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Bugger! Am I allowed to go from Llantwit or has someone else got to take a turn?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Since no-one else has ventured to carry on, I will say:-


Dinas Powys and Llantwit Major are both two-platform stations that are managed by ATW on the Vale of Glamorgan line.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Abercynon is another station with a 4tph service pattern in both directions.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Treforest Estate and Abercynon are both stations on the Merthyr Line

 

[Ivo]

Trefforest Estate is a rare example of a station that is regular skipped within the Valley Lines area.

The same is true of Capenhurst in the Merseyrail area.

 

[Eagle]

Birmingham Snow Hill is on a GWR line that is now electrified.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manchester Victoria and Birmingham Snow Hill are city-centre stations with both heavy rail and light rail services.

 

[Eagle]

London Marylebone is a six-platform station served by only one TOC.

 

[Robinson]

Harrow & Wealdstone is also served by National Rail and the Bakerloo Line.

 

[Eagle]

Wimbledon is another station where fourth rail ends but third rail continues through.

 

[Ivo]

Beckenham Junction serves as a terminus of the Tramlink.