Trivia: Largest place with just 1 station.

[thenorthern]

Just a question what is the largest place with just 1 station within the whole settlement including suburbs, the largest I can think of is Preston with 114,000 but are there any larger ones?

 

[fireftrm]

York, over 200,000

 

[Matt-the-mutt]

Just to lob in something, Peterborough with a population of about 207,000 has the one station, but I am sure there is bigger XD

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Hull has 284,000 residents, but I don't know if any of the stations out towards Brough or Brid are within city confines.

 

[thenorthern]

Leicester (329,600) only has one in the Leicester district although some would consider South Wigston a suburb.

 

[pennine]

Is Poppleton classed as part of the City of York?

 

[Yew]

Nottingham? Beeston is outside city limits, but I'm not sure about bulwell?

 

[Cherry_Picker]

Prediction: This thread will end with people squabbling about what defines a 'place'.

Contribution: Swindon (population 209,000 for the borough according to the 2011 census) Next nearest stations are Kemble, Chippenham or Didcot. All are at least ten miles outside of Swindon's limits.

 

[mister-sparky]

Is Poppleton classed as part of the City of York?

Yes it is
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Nottingham? Beeston is outside city limits, but I'm not sure about bulwell?

Bulwell is.
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Leicester (329,600) only has one in the Leicester district although some would consider South Wigston a suburb.

Syston is in Leicester City Council's boundaries

 

[Gathursty]

Aberdeen? pop = 220420.

 

[thenorthern]

For a place I would go by local government district except when its obvious that a district contains several settlements which are obviously separate.

For example Tamworth contains Tamworth and Wilncote stations which would mean it has 2 stations but the Lichfield district contains Lichfield City and Lichfield Trent Valley as well as Shenstone and Rugeley Trent Valley stations but the last 2 wouldn't be considered part of Lichfield as such.

Bulwell is part of Nottingham yes but with Poppleton it is part of the City of York yes but only just so its up to you if you want to include it.
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Aberdeen? pop = 220420.

Dyce is part of Aberdeen City Council.

 

[deltic1989]

Nottingham? Beeston is outside city limits, but I'm not sure about bulwell?

Bullwell is in the city limits. I do have a question mark over Carlton and Netherfield. I think they might be Gedling, but I'm not too sure.

 

[IanXC]

Hull has 284,000 residents, but I don't know if any of the stations out towards Brough or Brid are within city confines.

The first station northbound is Cottingham, which is across the border in the East Riding of Yorkshire, as is Hessle, which is the first station westbound.

(NB, see Hull City Council's campaign to expand its boundaries to include Cottingham, Hessle and possibly Ferriby.)

 

[Altnabreac]

Looking only at Scotland it seems Kirkcaldy at 49,000 is the largest 1 station town.

 

[thenorthern]

Looking only at Scotland it seems Kirkcaldy at 49,000 is the largest 1 station town.

What about Inverness?

For the whole country though is Wolverhampton a contender I can't find any other stations in the city except Wolverhampton.

 

[Cherry_Picker]

Wolves is another one you can argue. There is a station at Coseley which falls under Dudley at a local level but people in Coseley are represented in parliament by the MP for Wolverhampton South East.
Trying to pick a chunk of a large metropolitan area will always end up in contradictions like that. It's very difficult to come up with an absolute definition of what makes up a 'place' sometimes. It's like saying there are no railway stations in the town of Dudley. What it implies and what it actually means in reality are quite different.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Is Poppleton classed as part of the City of York?

Poppleton station serves the area of Upper Poppleton, a village and a civil authority that is in the Rural West Ward of the unitary authority of the City of York.

 

[edwin_m]

I think they might be Gedling, but I'm not too sure.

Both in Gedling, but part of the Nottingham conurbation as is Beeston.

 

[Altnabreac]

What about Inverness?

For the whole country though is Wolverhampton a contender I can't find any other stations in the city except Wolverhampton.

Inverness only has a population of 48,000, making it the 12th largest town/city in Scotland behind Kirkcaldy which is 10th. See
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_and_cities_in_Scotland_by_population

 

[LexyBoy]

Oxford, 150-250k depending where you count.

 

[43074]

Leicester (329,600) only has one in the Leicester district although some would consider South Wigston a suburb.

It depends what you define as a ''place'' - if you define it as an ''urban area'' then Leicester has a population of 510,000 if one includes it's surburbs, which in terms of railway stations includes Syston, South Wigston & Narborough. However, if by ''place'' you mean the City of Leicester and thus discount it's surburbs then it has a population of 330,000 and only one station.

I fear I may be opening a can of worms here though.

 

[cuccir]

The answer that we can objectively give for England is according to administrative district. Here, then, Leicester (329,600) is the biggest with just one station in it, as you note above.

From what I can tell, Sunderland (275,300) is the second largest under this measure, although of course it does have several Tyne and Wear Metro stations. Hull also only has one, but is slightly smaller.

While we're at it, it seems that North Tyneside (201,200) is the largest with no train stations.

Of course, there are other possible answers for 'place', which could draw form Travel-to-Work Areas, or the ' Primary Urban Areas ' which seem to have formerly been used by the Office for National Statistics but have now been dropped and are maintained as a concept by a think-tank. Under the latter, it would be Sunderland which is the largest with just one station, and this might be the most satisfactory answer as there is clear green-belt land between Sunderland and the nearest locations (Seaham and Gateshead [Heworth]) with stations.

 

[pemma]

Prediction: This thread will end with people squabbling about what defines a 'place'.

Yep. I think as far as most people are concerned Liverpool has 4 stations, Manchester has 4 stations and Leeds has 1 wherever the 'city of' boundaries are, yet some people will argue that Manchester Airport station is a 'City of Manchester' station so should be included, while someone else will argue that Heald Green is a 'Stockport' district station despite being closer to Manchester than Manchester Airport.

 

[43074]

Prediction: This thread will end with people squabbling about what defines a 'place'.

Oh dear, I seem to have started that!

 

[merlodlliw]

Inverness only has a population of 48,000, making it the 12th largest town/city in Scotland behind Kirkcaldy which is 10th. See
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_and_cities_in_Scotland_by_population

Inverness is about the same population as Wrexham town with its two stations,but five stations in the County.
Thought Inverness was bigger.

 

[CallySleeper]

In reverse, Mansfield (up until 20 years ago) was the largest town without a station in use. Pop ~100k.

 

[DarloRich]

York, over 200,000

York has two stations - Poppleton is within the city. Even the a town the size of Darlington has 3 so i think you might be strugglign to pin this down!

Milton Keynes has 5 within the boundary of the town!

 

[ainsworth74]

Dinsdale? Is that really still in Darlington?

 

[gordonthemoron]

where's the 3rd Darlo station? Middleton St George?

 

[Hadders]

Northampton must be pretty high up on the list too. Population over 200,000 and definately only one station.