Trivia: 'Junctions' that aren't. (Stations)

[30909]

Micheldever station is located on Andover Road; I suspect it was re-named to avoid confusion with people going there when they meant to go to Andover itself?

Renamed after July 1854 when LSWR Basingstoke to Salisbury was completed and Andover opened - Andover on the West of England line became Andover Junction on the opening of the Redbridge ( Southampton) & Andover and their Andover Town station and subsequently the Swindon Marlborough & Andover, later the Midland and South West Junction; although the actual junction of the M&SWJ was at Red Post west of Andover. Andover Road Micheldever was laid to access the Basingstoke Andover Road when the station was built.

 

[TheNewNo2]

Dalston Junction is a particularly bizarre name for a new-build station that has only ever been served by a single through line.

Given it opened in 1865, not really. Besides, they already had Dalston Kingsland, and TfL are not known for their imagination.

 

[Andyjs247]

Only one I can think of not mentioned already is Boscarne Junction - Bodmin & Wenford Railway.

 

[thenorthern]

Swanwick Junction Smallbrook Junction I wouldn't call true junction stations.

Before they both closed Eggington Junction in Derbyshire and Tiverton Junction I don't think were on junctions.

 

[Northern 155]

I wanted to change tracks when I was up the junction but I couldn't cos I only had a single.

Rainford lost its "Junction" suffix a fair while ago (around 1972/73 according to my old BR-LMR timetables). It's interesting that the settlement around Rainford station, which is separated by a short distance from Rainford village, is still known as "Rainford Junction" by locals and appears as such on Ordnance Survey maps.

Clifton (Junction) on the Manchester/Bolton line is another example. The station lost the Junction part of its name long ago, but the industrial area adjacent and to the north still appears on current OS maps as "Clifton Junction" (the rail station is correctly marked as just Clifton).

A third example of this is Lostock, west of Bolton. The old Lostock Junction station closed in the 1960s (& has been re-opened with platforms only on the Chorley line, so definitely no-longer a junction), but the residential area around there is still known as Lostock Junction to differentiate it from the part of Lostock along Chorley New Road.

The OP's question related to station names, but there are possibly small settlements up and down the country called "XXXX Junction" where there is no longer a junction, or a station nor even a railway.

Didn't know that! Growing up near rainford, I've always called it 'Rainford Junction'. Thinking about it, it does make sense it isn't called a junction anymore. The old line from rainford to St. Helens was cut off a while ago, hence why we have the linear park now. Since that happened before privatisation, it makes sense that they would've renamed or as part of the new franchise. Anyway, cheers for the info!

 

[Tetchytyke]

Dalston Junction is a particularly bizarre name for a new-build station that has only ever been served by a single through line.

Dalston Junction is a station that originally opened in 1865, situated at one point of a triangle junction. The East London Line is one side of the triangle, the North London Line is the second side, and there used to be a third side, a eastbound chord for trains heading from Broad Street to Poplar.

Dalston Junction is very much a junction.

 

[glbotu]

Swanwick Junction Smallbrook Junction I wouldn't call true junction stations.

Before they both closed Eggington Junction in Derbyshire and Tiverton Junction I don't think were on junctions.

Note that stations can be "end-on junctions", where two different railway companies would meet at a single station from opposite ends. They would normally share tracks/platforms etc, but it was technically called a junction.

Dalston Junction is a particularly bizarre name for a new-build station that has only ever been served by a single through line.

Except a) It was opened in 1865 and b) It was a Junction

Trains from London Broad Street would diverge at Dalston Junction to head either East or West on the North London Line. Around 1900 Broad Street was one of the busiest stations in London in terms of numbers of passengers as it was the main way for passengers from the Great Northern and London North Western railways to get to the City of London. It was also the terminus of the North London Railway, with regular suburban services to Richmond and Watford Junction as well as Poplar, hence requiring the Junction at Dalston. The London Overground station is built on the site of the old Dalston Junction railway station.

 

[fairysdad]

Swanwick Junction Smallbrook Junction I wouldn't call true junction stations.

Before they both closed Eggington Junction in Derbyshire and Tiverton Junction I don't think were on junctions.

Smallbrook is an interesting one, but I'd say it doesn't count for the purposes of this as although there's no railway junction, it's still a place where passengers can interchange.

Tiverton Junction used to be at a railway junction, with the branch to Tiverton proper and out to Hemyock. Admittedly, when it closed (and replaced with Parkway) it wasn't a junction anymore, but that would have made it ideal for this thread!

 

[Dent]

Given it opened in 1865, not really.

Dalston Junction is a station that originally opened in 1865, situated at one point of a triangle junction. The East London Line is one side of the triangle, the North London Line is the second side, and there used to be a third side, a eastbound chord for trains heading from Broad Street to Poplar.

Dalston Junction is very much a junction.

Except a) It was opened in 1865 and b) It was a JunctionThe London Overground station is built on the site of the old Dalston Junction railway station.

As I assumed was obvious, I was referring to the current station bearing the name "Dalston Junction", not a disused station. The current station opened in 2010, and has never been a junction.

The London Overground station is built on the site of the old Dalston Junction railway station.

That may be, but the fact remains that it is not a junction.