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ValleyLines142

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London Liverpool Street is also managed by Network Rail, is also in the City of London and also has eighteen platforms.
 

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Go for it! Why not? :D

Derby also has a second name which isn't always used; Derby Midland it is in fact, but just referred to simply as Derby (as is Edinburgh Waverley known simply as Edinburgh).
 

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Derby Midland was called such to distinguish it from Derby Friargate, which closed in 1964.
Edinburgh Waverley was called such to distinguish it from Edinburgh Princess St, which closed in 1965.
Lancaster was called Lancaster Castle until the closure of Lancaster Green Ayre in 1966.



Leeds

another station which has seen suffix changes, in this case following a merger of two stations and the closure of a third in the city- [i.e.the merging of Leeds New with Leeds Wellington to form Leeds City and the closure of Leeds Central to form simply "Leeds"]
Here endeth the lesson.
 

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Liverpool South Parkway, another station in The Scouse where you can transfer to Merseyrail
 

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Ivybridge is also a station with two platforms opened in 1848.

Sorry, but I don't think this is valid. The original Ivybridge station, which did open in 1848, closed nearly 50 years ago. I could have told you even without looking it up that the current Ivybridge station only opened in 1994.

As a precaution, I shall choose something simple that links both Alsager and Ivybridge, and is easy to continue from: Urmston is another two-platformed station whose name begins with a vowel.
 

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Widnes, another station between Liverpool & Manchester that consits of 2 platforms
 

ValleyLines142

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Sorry, but I don't think this is valid. The original Ivybridge station, which did open in 1848, closed nearly 50 years ago. I could have told you even without looking it up that the current Ivybridge station only opened in 1994.

As a precaution, I shall choose something simple that links both Alsager and Ivybridge, and is easy to continue from: Urmston is another two-platformed station whose name begins with a vowel.

Ah okay, I wasn't sure whether it was the same station on the same site, so presumed it was.

Seamer also has direct services to Manchester Oxford Road and Liverpool Lime Street.
 

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Thankfully that also applies to Widnes :)

Malton, another station in North Yorkshire with an horly service to Scarborough

(following on from Seamer of course!)
 

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Manchester United FC Halt, also formed of one platform and served by 1 TOC (Northern)
 

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Manchester Oxford Road is also a station with the name of a town in it, that isn't the town where the station is in itself.
 

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