Towns not cities with 3 or more stations

[tony_mac]

If you use parliamentary constituencies Stocksmoor would be included as a Wakefield station, despite being closer to Huddersfield and having a Huddersfield postcode.

I think it's more difficult in a metropolitan area - the local authority is much bigger than the town.

There's probably 7 of them that are in the Birkenhead postal town.

 

[madannie77]

Warrington: Central, Bank Quay, Padgate, Birchwood, and Sankey for Penketh.

 

[MidnightFlyer]

I was really meaning stations within a town, opposed to including stations in a village outside a town just because it's within the same unitary authority.

Blackburn, Mill Hill and Cherry Tree all serve Blackburn, Pleasington is probably on the border of being an outlying village. Although both Ramsgreave and Wilpshire are in the Ribble Valley, both are Blackburn suburbs, not villages, Wilpshire certainly.

 

[Gareth]

I think it's more difficult in a metropolitan area - the local authority is much bigger than the town.

There's probably 7 of them that are in the Birkenhead postal town.

Yeah, Birkenhead is very much a part of Liverpool's metropolitan area. It would be more interesting to know about totally independent/separate towns.

 

[elementalpat]

Worthing itself has 3 stations.

Up to 5 if you include Goring and Durrington.

 

[northwichcat]

What I was really getting at with Pontefract is it has 3 stations in the town itself, not in a suburb or village that's not within easy walking distance of the town centre. Birkenhead is one of the few places that have been mentioned where I think you can easily say there are more than that fitting the same description.

Perhaps a better way of looking at it is assuming you're not disabled would you be happy carrying 2 bags of shopping from a town centre shop to the station you are thinking of? If not the station isn't convenient for visiting the town.

 

[Ivo]

What about Southend?

Central
East
Victoria
Airport

Plus if you include the borough, Shoeburyness, Thorpe Bay, Westcliff, Chalkwell, Leigh on Sea.

You actually got this wrong. The Airport station is just outside the boundary - but you omitted Prittlewell. It is about 200m from having ten, and is thus almost certainly the winner in terms of stations per town.

However, this isn't a fair analysis in my opinion. To give you an idea of why, compare Lichfield with Northampton. Northampton is roughly six times bigger but has only one station against Lichfield's two. And yet, Lichfield is a city whereas Northampton is a town.

It is much fairer to do this kind of thign relative to population. In this sense, all of Northampton - c. 180,000 people - have just one station available to them, whereas the c. 30,000 in Lichfield have two, averaging 15,000 per station; by that reckoning, Northampton should have twelve!

 

[Tamperkid]

Luton has Leagrave,Luton and Luton airport parkway

 

[Anonywave]

Hastings - 4
Watford - 6 (inc met - more if/after croxley link goes ahead))

 

[pdq]

Croydon. Confirmed today as not a city.

 

[PaulLothian]

It is much fairer to do this kind of thign relative to population. In this sense, all of Northampton - c. 180,000 people - have just one station available to them, whereas the c. 30,000 in Lichfield have two, averaging 15,000 per station; by that reckoning, Northampton should have twelve!

On that basis, Greenock with a population of 45467 in 2001 has just under 6500 people per station! Or 5050 if you accept there being 9 stations there as in an earlier post.

 

[Eagle]

Weymouth:

Upwey, Town and Quay (temporarily closed :P)

 

[John55]

You actually got this wrong. The Airport station is just outside the boundary - but you omitted Prittlewell. It is about 200m from having ten, and is thus almost certainly the winner in terms of stations per town.
[/I]!

The problem with this kind of question posed by the OP is there needs to be a very careful definition of every term used in the question to make sense of an answer.

For example from wikipedia "Southend-on-Sea is a unitary authority area, town, and seaside resort in Essex, England. The district has Borough status, and comprises the towns of Chalkwell, Eastwood, Leigh-on-Sea, North Shoebury, Prittlewell, Shoeburyness, Southchurch, Thorpe Bay, and Westcliff-on-Sea. "

So apparently greater Southend is not a town at all! The name is derived from the "south end" of Prittlewell which is a town. Southend on Sea is however a borough.

 

[Eagle]

If we're allowed boroughs, then Solihull has loads, including such far-off places as Earlswood, Berkswell and International.

 

[tony_mac]

Yeah, Birkenhead is very much a part of Liverpool's metropolitan area.

That's fighting talk!

It seems that the question is
'what towns have 3 stations which are an easy walk to the town centre?'
I guess you could just about add Newhaven to the list

 

[class156]

Ardrossan has 3, South Beach, Town and Harbour.

 

[ANorthernGuard]

Worthing itself has 3 stations.

Up to 5 if you include Goring and Durrington.

Damn... Beat me lol

 

[Batman]

Walsall has 3:

Walsall
Bloxwich
Bloxwich North
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Stourbridge has 3:

Stourbridge Town
Stourbridge Junction
Lye

 

[EM2]

Stratford has 'Regional', International, Maryland and Pudding Mill Lane (DLR).

 

[Eagle]

Walsall has 3:

Walsall
Bloxwich
Bloxwich North

Bescot?

 

[matchmaker]

Following on from another thread............the conurbation of Crianlarich and Tyndrum (postcode FK20) has a population of 352 and 3 stations :roll:

 

[Anon Mouse]

anyone mentioned Newhaven? Town, Harbour and Marine....

 

[Robinson]

anyone mentioned Newhaven? Town, Harbour and Marine....

I hadn't heard of Newhaven Marine station...

 

[Ivo]

I hadn't heard of Newhaven Marine station...

Newhaven Marine railway station

Newhaven Marine Railway Station is a station in Newhaven, East Sussex, England adjacent to Newhaven Harbour railway station. It is technically open, but has been closed to passenger train services since August 2006 due to safety concerns. The station featured on the BBC Radio 4 programme 'The Ghost Trains of Old England' in October 2010.

This comes from that most wondrous of sources, Wikipedia.

:roll:

 

[Anon Mouse]

I hadn't heard of Newhaven Marine station...

check your Bakers, and there was a thread on here about it. Its a parly and the station is deemed to be unsafe and fenced off. If you have a valid ticket you can use a compo taxi. And before you say it, the stations parly status means it has not been closed!

 

[Eagle]

If you have a valid ticket you can use a compo taxi.

Thus saving yourself a four-minute walk...

 

[Anon Mouse]

Thus saving yourself a four-minute walk...

I did it in 2 mins, it actually took me less than 10 mins from getting off ferry, directed off the car deck, through the deserted customs, out onto Marine Station and onto platform at Harbour a few years ago. I was the only foot passenger that night, and I was driven onto the car deck at Dieppe! Happy days

 

[MK Tom]

Milton Keynes has six if you count Woburn Sands and five if not. Of course if we had a government/monarchy that made sense then we'd be a city so would Reading and St. Asaph... wouldn't. How many are in the Croydon borough area?

 

[Drsatan]

Exeter:

Exeter St Davids
Exeter St Thomas
St James Park
Polsloe Bridge
Digby & Sowton

Pinhoe and Topsham stations, while being outside Exeter, are technically still part of Exeter City Council.

 

[Eagle]

Exeter

The title says not cities... :P