Trivia - non-stationary stations

[LDECRexile]

Whatstandwell

 

[Hornet]

Just looking at my documentation, there are over 350 present day operational National Rail Stations that have been moved/rebuilt from their original site.

 

[LDECRexile]

Farnworth moved a few feet eastwards a couple of years ago.

 

[LDECRexile]

Moses Gate moved a few inches very recently, too.

NB: Looking it up is against the rules, Sir.

 

[bussnapperwm]

Both Stourbridge Town and Junction

Old Hill

 

[pdeaves]

Abercynon used to have a station on both the Aberdare and Merthyr routes but a new one was built south of the junction dispensing with the others.

Not quite. The current Abercynon station is the old South station with an additional track.

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Marlow is not on its original site.

 

[3141]

Enfield Chase. Originally Enfield, moved down the hill, eastwards, when the line was extended to Cuffley in 1910 and subsequently to Hertford North and Stevenage. Renamed Enfield Chase in 1923.

 

[ANDREW_D_WEBB]

Windsor and Eton Central moved back a few metres for a shopping centre and waxworks exhibition

 

[3141]

Uxbridge. Original Metropolitan station replaced by new station on the High Street in 1938.

Stevenage moved from original site to the present site in the centre of the New Town in 1973.

There have been various moves of the District Line's Hounslow stations, but in particular Hounslow West moved very slightly northwards and partly underground when the Piccadilly Line was extended to Heathrow.

 

[3141]

I'm pretty sure Buxton qualifies, but I don't know the precise details.

Then there are cases like Haddenham, which closed on its original site in 1963 and Haddenham and Thame Parkway opened a quarter of a mile to the north in 1987.

Did Eltham (Well Hall) move slightly when it became Eltham in 1985?

 

[steamybrian]

Some more from the South East- Epsom Downs and Uckfield have been mentioned.
Crawley was moved in 1969 to an adjacent site east of the old station.
Polegate has moved twice. The third station (the present one) is on the site of the first station.
Falmer was resited in 1865
Sydenham has move gradually!. The original down platform was moved to north of Sydenham Road bridge when the tracks were widened. The up platform was moved also in the 1980s.
Tooting was moved in 1894.
Whitstable was resited in 1915
Tonbridge- the first station was east of the present and was resited in 1865.
Do you count- Eltham(Well Hall) when the original station was replaced in 1985 by "Eltham" on an adjacent site to the east.
Godalming- original terminus station of 1849 replaced with through station in 1859 on new alignment.
Bournemouth- The first station(terminus) replaced in 1885 with present Bournemouth Central.
Hurst Green- original halt closed in 1961 and replaced with station north of overbridge.
Lewes-resited three times. The first (terminus) opened in 1846, second 1857 and the present station 1889 in conjunction with present track alignment.
South Bermondsey resited in 1928
Gatwick Airport resited in 1958
Swanley resited in 1939

 

[thenorthern]

Skipton, Keighley and Bingley have all moved.

Bromsgrove was moved recently.

 

[Taunton]

Osterley on the Piccadilly Line and Aldgate East on the District/H&C Lines if we're including the Underground.

Interestingly different reasons. Osterley was moved to put the station entrance on a prominent main road instead of down a side street. Aldgate East was to rebuild the junction for the tight triangle with additional space to avoid trains getting into deadlock.

A common movement in central London on the Underground is surface buildings moved to a different location, although the underground platforms remain where they were, due to lift access, where the station building was directly above the platform, being replaced with escalators, which rise diagonally.

 

[Harbornite]

One example that hasn't been mentioned is Icknield Port Road (although that station and the line it was on are both closed).

Barnt Green has also shifted slightly; until 1930, the platforms on the Birmingham and Gloucester line were staggered.

 

[AM9]

Blackfriars was moved to make the platforms completely on the bridge over the River Thames. They used to be shorter and about half on the north Bank.
Kings Cross Thameslink was moved about 400m west and north and renamed St Pancras.
In 1967 Tower Hill on the LU District/Circle lines was moved East about 250m from what was originally called Mark Lane.
Hillingdon on the LU Metropolitan/Piccadilly lines was moved a few metres south-west to allow the A40 to be realingned in 1992.

 

[Spankthemonkey]

South Wigston moved about 100 yards towards Leicester upon reopening.

 

[Spankthemonkey]

Barrow upon Soar

Cwmbran

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Berry Brow station was originally about 150 yards closer to Huddersfield until it closed under Beeching. The present station (closer to most of the housing in that area of Huddersfield) opened in 1993ish. Deighton is another one in the area which reopened in a slightly different location, but in that case the new station is on a different route altogether, the old one being on the closed (and rather silly) Kirkburton branch.

 

[snowball]

Rochdale moved in the latter part of the 19th century.

 

[TBY-Paul]

Billingham moved in the 60's, to be nearer the "new" town centre, and is rumoured (every now and then) to be getting moved back to it's original location..
I believe South Bank has been moved from it's original location.

 

[snowball]

Welshpool moved slightly to accommodate a bypass on the A483.

 

[LDECRexile]

Parkside (Liverpool and Manchester Railway)

Was this the first public station to move?

 

[janahan]

On the Windsor lines:
Richmond has moved twice, first from the original terminus platforms (not the current LU/Overground terminus platforms) to a through line slightly north west of the terminal platforms which became a goods shed, then in the 1930s the station building was moved to the other side of the road to its present position, with the through platforms moving eastwards adjacent to the newer terminus platforms (the old terminus/goods station having closed, and demolished)

Twickenham station moved eastwards to the other side of the bridge also in the 20th century.

 

[The Quincunx]

Wrexham Central, moved about 280 metres towards Wrexham General in the late 1990s.

 

[gazr]

Wimbledon? There's evidence of an old platform on the other side of The Fridge.

 

[pdeaves]

Carpenters Park shifted, too.

 

[swt_passenger]

Wimbledon? There's evidence of an old platform on the other side of The Fridge.

That was a separate 'milk dock' platform, from the Middleton Press book for the area.

 

[swt_passenger]

Southampton Central (formerly Southampton West, formerly Blechynden) was located further towards the tunnel, the country end of the original 2 platform station was about level with the present public footbridge. It was moved west to allow for the four tracking.

I think St Denys may have been slightly repositioned, as the Netley Line junction was added after the initial station (known as Portswood) was located slightly to the north.

 

[Hornet]

How would you classify Godley and Godley East, as both Stations saw services between the opening of Godley and Godley East closing. The same is true of Filton Abbey Wood and Filton (formerly Filton Junction) and Derker (Now part of Manchester Metrolink) and Royton (formerly Royton Junction).

 

[Fawkes Cat]

How about
- West Ealing (platform 4 only, according to Wikipedia)
- arguably Liverpool Central (High level closed, low level revised, deep level constructed)
- even more dubiously Maidenhead (1838 - 1871 station replaced by current station and Taplow)