With the added bonus that neither was actually called Charing Cross - the Bakerloo station was Trafalgar Square whilst the Northern station was Strand. When the Jubilee station was built the whole lot was merged into one station and adopted the Charing Cross name for the adjacent BR station.If we're including tube then Charing Cross is effectively two stations.
Are you meaning because of 4a, 4b and 4c? If so they were purpose built to allow the former LSWR station to close. So that is technically an expansion to allow a nearby closure rather than two separate stations being merged into one.Reading
But each of the four is two separate stations from the train operations point of view, with shared passenger facilities.Ormskirk and Kirkby are different towns 6 miles apart, and Liverpool Central and Moorfields are different stations, half a mile from each other on opposite sides of the city centre.
But each of the four is two separate stations from the train operations point of view, with shared passenger facilities.
Fascinating. I never knew it was two stations. Possibly explains why the through platforms are a bit tight in places if that wasn't their original location.Richmond station (Surrey), where the station on the through Windsor lines, the 'Old Station' as it was popularly known, was quite separate from the station on the terminal lines, the 'New Station', as shown on this map. Each had its own station buildings, on opposite sides of Kew Road. Both belonged to the LSWR. The Windsor lines station was re-sited when the whole station was rebuilt in the 1930s, the basic layout remaining much the same since, with the through and terminal lines sharing the same concourse. There is no longer any rail link between the two halves; the double crossover from the line from Kew Gardens to the Windsor lines was removed (I think) in the 1960s, and the reverse crossover from the up Windsor line was removed when the NLL no longer used Wimbledon-based 2-EPB stock.
I don't get what facilities Moorfields and Liverpool Central are meant to share when they're on opposite sides of the city?
With the added bonus that neither was actually called Charing Cross - the Bakerloo station was Trafalgar Square whilst the Northern station was Strand. When the Jubilee station was built the whole lot was merged into one station and adopted the Charing Cross name for the adjacent BR station.
The original Charing Cross station on the Underground is now... Embankment.
That’s why I used the words, “site of “ as the present Merseyrail platforms are slightly further along the track from the old Garston station. Anyway, I would argue that the present Liverpool South Parkway station is essentially two stations on one site as there is quite a distance between the Merseyrail platforms and the other platforms on the mainline.
The Southern station was originally built by the South Eastern, as the terminus of its line from Redhill. Prior to the recent rebuilding, IIRC there were two Southern platforms, 4a and 4b, since rebuilding there are three, numbered 4, 5, & 6.Are you meaning because of 4a, 4b and 4c? If so they were purpose built to allow the former LSWR station to close. So that is technically an expansion to allow a nearby closure rather than two separate stations being merged into one.
Highbury and Islington used to be 2 separate stations with their own buildings. Indeed the North London line station was a very grand building until it was damaged in the war
Fascinating. I never knew it was two stations. Possibly explains why the through platforms are a bit tight in places if that wasn't their original location. Also liked the map. Interesting to see by the names of large houses down by the Thames how many 'London' homes of Peers still seemed to be in place.
I get that it has two parts but what is the third?Leeds.
Manchester Piccadilly is/was 3 distinct stations.
The low numbered platforms were LNER, and electrified on DC not AC, so operationally separate, though all under one roof and the RCH junction diagrams (see the Wikipedia article) show the whole lot in from Ardwick Jn as LNWR.I get that it has two parts but what is the third?
I think it was all LNWR with running power inherited from the Great Central, but there were definitely a number of platforms (not sure how many) dedicated to GC and fenced off from the LNWR platforms. Disputes between the companies were one reason for the formation of the CLC and the construction of Manchester Central and the lines round the south of the city to access it.The low numbered platforms were LNER, and electrified on DC not AC, so operationally separate, though all under one roof and the RCH junction diagrams (see the Wikipedia article) show the whole lot in from Ardwick Jn as LNWR.
So a slightly moot point - contrast London Victoria where the stations were physically separate and separately owned.
I was going to suggest Perth too. Platforms 1&2 (Glasgow / Dundee Aberdeen) is through a little passageway from the bulk of the station. The platforms are open and look better cared for than the other 5 platforms which are enclosed under increasingly dilapidated canopies.do platforms 8 & 9 at Edinburgh count? they were the old 'suburban' platforms. out of use for a fair while weren't they?
And Perth? the Dundee side seems different to the Highland Line platforms?
Brum New St was 2 stations before it was trashed in WW2 and the 1960's rebuilding. Still seems to operate as 2 stations, low numbered platforms for cov-wolverhampton, and high numbered for cross city and NE - SW cross country, keeping the LNWR/MR distinction a bit.
I think it was all LNWR with running power inherited from the Great Central, but there were definitely a number of platforms (not sure how many) dedicated to GC and fenced off from the LNWR platforms. Disputes between the companies were one reason for the formation of the CLC and the construction of Manchester Central and the lines round the south of the city to access it.
The low numbered platforms were LNER, and electrified on DC not AC, so operationally separate, though all under one roof and the RCH junction diagrams (see the Wikipedia article) show the whole lot in from Ardwick Jn as LNWR.
So a slightly moot point - contrast London Victoria where the stations were physically separate and separately owned.
I think Moorfields and Liverpool Central were given as two separate examples, not one example with the two names.I don't get what facilities Moorfields and Liverpool Central are meant to share when they're on opposite sides of the city?
How about Hackney Downs and Hackney Central? These are now 2 separate stations that are directly connected to each other with a purpose built walkway.
Highbury and Islington used to be 2 separate stations with their own buildings. Indeed the North London line station was a very grand building until it was damaged in the war
And the building on the left, which at the time of the photo is the goods yard, was the 1st station for the Windsor line when it terminated at Richmond when first constructed. When the line was extended to Twickenham and beyond, the created a new through alignment with the second station built on the new alignment, and the old terminus became the goods yard. The latter Kew terminus opened where the current building is and as you said the Windsor line station was moved/merged with the Kew terminus to what we have now, which the goods yard/original terminus closing and demolished a while ago. So the Windsor station was actually moved twice!Below is a picture of Richmond station prior to the 1930s rebuilding, looking west from Church Road, with the Windsor lines in the centre. It's easy to see how separate the station are; there's a path between them, coming down from Church Road. The Old Station down buildings are the ones with pale roofs in the centre distance; the up building is beyond the New Station roof, with the big chimney (the big building to its right is the Station Hotel, the launching-pad for many famous 1960s bands). This map shows the rebuilt station.
Re Richmond and large houses; the town is lucky in that it has not been so badly bashed around as many other towns, and today there still are loads of old houses, many going back centuries.
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