Trivia :National Rail Stations with only one direct destination.

extendedpaul · 23 Oct 2018

All trains from Cardiff Bay only run to Cardiff Queen Street and from Stourbridge Town trains all just go to Stourbridge Junction. A change of train is required to travel anywhere further.

I've a hunch there may be other examples , possibly Parliamentary trains, where there is only one possible direct destination . Does not count if the train passes through a station without stopping. Any suggestions ?

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DanNCL · 23 Oct 2018

extendedpaul said:
All trains from Cardiff Bay only run to Cardiff Queen Street and from Stourbridge Town trains all just go to Stourbridge Junction. A change of train is required to travel anywhere further.

I've a hunch there may be other examples , possibly Parliamentary trains, where there is only one possible direct destination . Does not count if the train passes through a station without stopping. Any suggestions ?

Can't think of any others with just 1 - Teesside Airport only has two though (Dinsdale and Darlington)

extendedpaul · 23 Oct 2018

DanNCL said:
Can't think of any others with just 1 - Teesside Airport only has two though (Dinsdale and Darlington)

Maybe we should include two station destinations then. On that basis I can add Bromley North and Sundridge Park on the line to Grove Park.

K.o.R · 23 Oct 2018

Windsor Central to Slough.

pdeaves · 23 Oct 2018

I'll slip in Waterloo and Bank on the basis that they used to be part of the national network (not now, of course).

Eric · 23 Oct 2018

Baildon - Bradford or Ilkley

Kite159 · 23 Oct 2018

extendedpaul said:
All trains from Cardiff Bay only run to Cardiff Queen Street and from Stourbridge Town trains all just go to Stourbridge Junction. A change of train is required to travel anywhere further.

I've a hunch there may be other examples , possibly Parliamentary trains, where there is only one possible direct destination . Does not count if the train passes through a station without stopping. Any suggestions ?

Sadly Cardiff Bay can be excluded due to the existence of the 2354 Cardiff Bay to Cardiff Central service (http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/P55897/2018/10/23/advanced)

Esker-pades · 23 Oct 2018

Wick to Inverness
Heysham Port to Lancaster
Rose Hill Marple to Manchester Piccadilly
Barton-on-Humber to Cleethorpes
Bishop Auckland to Saltburn
Lymington Pier to Brockenhurst
Norwich to Sheringham/Great Yarmouth

K.o.R · 23 Oct 2018

London Necropolis?

Actually it had 3 destinations, all of them at Brookwood.

Leslie Fletcher · 23 Oct 2018

The destination of all trains stopping at Bache or Capenhurst is Chester - check it out on Real Time Trains.

K.o.R · 23 Oct 2018

Leslie Fletcher said:
The destination of all trains stopping at Bache or Capenhurst is Chester - check it out on Real Time Trains.

You are technically correct

Kite159 · 23 Oct 2018

Leslie Fletcher said:
The destination of all trains stopping at Bache or Capenhurst is Chester - check it out on Real Time Trains.

07:55 Chester - Liverpool Central
23:30 Chester - Hooton

Leslie Fletcher · 23 Oct 2018

... and Ellesmere Port is even more weird.

K.o.R · 23 Oct 2018

Kite159 said:
07:55 Chester - Liverpool Central
23:30 Chester - Hooton

Hush, you.

Islineclear3_1 · 23 Oct 2018

Marlow to Maidenhead

Sheerness-on-Sea to Sittingbourne (inc. stops at Swale, Queenborough, Kemsley)

Uckfield to Oxted

Seaford & Newhaven to Lewes

jamesst · 23 Oct 2018

K.o.R said:
Hush, you.

Haha if you want to take route the destination of all trains leaving West Kirby is West Kirby! And all trains leaving New Brighton Go to... New Brighton!

extendedpaul · 23 Oct 2018

Agreed that Cardiff Bay to Cardiff Queen street fails the test in view of that final journey on to Cardiff Central.

Some of the other suggestions are definitely not eligible, eg Norwich to Sheringham has 7 calling points. The concept was stations where you can travel ONLY to one or two different stations without needing to change, not just "dead end" destinations like Sheringham of which there must be dozens.

transmanche · 23 Oct 2018

Leslie Fletcher said:
The destination of all trains stopping at Bache or Capenhurst is Chester - check it out on Real Time Trains.

Although you can travel to many other stations from Bache or Capenhurst without changing trains. So sadly, that fails the OP's test.

PeterC · 23 Oct 2018

Emerson Park, depending on direction you can only go to Romford or Upminster

Kite159 · 23 Oct 2018

So the only 2 mentioned so far which pass the OP's test are:
Stourbridge Town - Stourbridge Junction
Slough - Windsor & Eden Central [unit starts/ends the day as ECS]

Stations with only 2 directly served destinations:
Cardiff Bay (Cardiff Queen Street & once a day to Cardiff Central)
Emerson Park (Romford or Upminster)
Lymington Pier (Lymington Town & Brockenhurst)
Lymington Town (Lymington Pier & Brockenhurst)
Tees-side Airport (Dinsdale & Darlington)
Bromley North (Sundridge Park & Grove Park)
Sundridge Park (Bromley North & Grove Park)
Kenilworth (Leamington Spa & Coventry)

Cletus · 23 Oct 2018

robert7111a said:
Sheerness-on-Sea to Sittingbourne (inc. stops at Swale, Queenborough, Kemsley)

Sheerness has through services to Victoria. 2 morning departures I think.

Captain Bigwig · 23 Oct 2018

Kenilworth only has two direct destinations: Leamington Spa and Coventry

Eric · 23 Oct 2018

Kite159 said:
So the only 2 mentioned so far which pass the OP's test are:
Stourbridge Town - Stourbridge Junction
Slough - Windsor & Eden Central [unit starts/ends the day as ECS]

Stations with only 2 directly served destinations:
Cardiff Bay (Cardiff Queen Street & once a day to Cardiff Central)
Emerson Park (Romford or Upminster)
Lymington Pier (Lymington Town & Brockenhurst)
Lymington Town (Lymington Pier & Brockenhurst)
Tees-side Airport (Dinsdale & Darlington)
Bromley North (Sundridge Park & Grove Park)
Sundridge Park (Bromley North & Grove Park)

And Baildon.

Kite159 · 23 Oct 2018

Eric said:
And Baildon.

Which has 8 directly served stations

Mag_seven · 23 Oct 2018

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Kite159 · 23 Oct 2018

Mag_seven said:
Falkirk High - Glasgow QS or Edinburgh Waverley.

Croy, Polmont, Haymarket etc?

jopsuk · 23 Oct 2018

Cletus said:
Sheerness has through services to Victoria. 2 morning departures I think.

0624 and 0700 up in the morning, 1712 and 1812 down in the evening. None of which call at Swale.

Parallel · 23 Oct 2018

All trains from Looe run to Liskeard. Also, pretty sure all trains from Falmouth Docks run to Truro?

Accura · 23 Oct 2018

I was just about to put Denton and Reddish South as only having trains to Stalybridge.... didn't realise a bloody return service had been introduced as part of the May timetable changes!

extendedpaul · 23 Oct 2018

Parallel said:
All trains from Looe run to Liskeard. Also, pretty sure all trains from Falmouth Docks run to Truro?

But there are four stations between Looe and Liskeard and three stations between Falmouth Docks and Truro. The original concept was for zero stations on the A-B route as with Windsor to Slough and Strourbridge Town to Stourbridge Junction but then expanded to one intermediate station such as the line from Bromley North to Grove Park via only Sundridge Park and the Upminster to Romford line via only Emerson Park

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