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I have been wondering how many stations there are on the national rail network where every single train that passes through makes a stop there. This does not include unscheduled stops, empty rolling stock movements or where a train is forced to stop at a platform due to a red signal. Freight services however are included as long as they are regular and frequent.
 
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Apart from termini stations the Thameslink core and Merseyrail loop in Liverpool spring to mind.
 

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I have been wondering how many stations there are on the national rail network where every single train that passes through makes a stop there. This does not include unscheduled stops, empty rolling stock movements or where a train is forced to stop at a platform due to a red signal. Freight services however are included as long as they are regular and frequent.
Poole, Bournemouth
 

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Just what I had in mind. Same also goes for Brockenhurst I believe.
No there is one or two up and down each weekday that pass straight through, not that you would know with the strike on :)

Dorch South and West plus Maiden Newton also apply as well I blive
 

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No there is one or two up and down each weekday that pass straight through, not that you would know with the strike on :)

Dorch South and West plus Maiden Newton also apply as well I blive

In that case, might as well add Hamworthy, Wareham, Yeovil Pen Mill and everything on the WofE line between Salisbury and Honiton.
 

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Do request stops count as stopping or straight through? If the former, then all stops on the Pembroke Dock line (and, I assume, the other branches West of Carmarthen).
 
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Barrow, Ulverston, Grange-over-Sands, Bare Lane, Bentham, Clapham, Giggleswick, Settle and most stations to Carlisle, and most onwards to Leeds,

how many on the Cumbrian coast?

==edit==

just noticed the comment about freight, so I guess the nuclear flasks rule Bare Lane and the Cumbrian stations out.
 
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A lot of stations in Lincolnshire.

Skegness, wainfleet, Boston, heckington, Sleaford, Spalding, Ruskington, Methringham, Lincoln, Saxilby, Gainsborough Lea Road, Market Rasen, Barnetby, Grimsby Town, Cleethorpes, Scunthorpe, Brigg, Kirton Lindsey, Gainsborough Central, All stations on the Barton-on-Humber line after Habrough.
 

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Loads come to mind if you mean trains in normal passenger service:

Margate, Ramsgate, Dover Priory, Canterbury West, Canterbury East, Faversham, Ashford International (domestic - not Eurostar), Tonbridge, Hastings, Lewes, Chatham, Bromley South, Barnham, Horsham

Too tired to think of any others...
 

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Loads of stations on lines that carry no freight traffic (BTW what's your definition of regular and frequent freight, and why include freight but not ECS?).
The whole of Merseyrail (except Chester), chunks of the Northern area, various bits of London, West Midlands and Glasgow suburbia...
 

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Depending on if we’re not including engineering work diverts, as far as I know, all trains in passenger service are scheduled to call at Calstock, Chichester, Fratton, Portsmouth & Southsea, Havant, Petersfield, Haslemere & Guildford. Fareham and Cosham both came to mind originally but Fareham has the Southern 1Yxx which skip the station, and GWR don’t call at Cosham after 2000. There is very little freight in the area apart from Eastleigh engineers trains and 1 a week stone trains.
 

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Epsom, Worcester Park, Sutton, Cheam, Carshalton, everything below Epsom towards Dorking and Guildford except Boxhill...?
 

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Loads of stations on lines that carry no freight traffic (BTW what's your definition of regular and frequent freight, and why include freight but not ECS?).

I was looking for areas that see at least one freight train an hour, but even so i’m not sure such frequencies are prevalent outside of the major ports of Southampton and Felixstowe.

The idea of this is to try and work out which stations are best suited for enthusiasts wishing to witness a train passing through at speed. The faster and more frequent services the better.
 

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I was looking for areas that see at least one freight train an hour, but even so i’m not sure such frequencies are prevalent outside of the major ports of Southampton and Felixstowe.

The idea of this is to try and work out which stations are best suited for enthusiasts wishing to witness a train passing through at speed. The faster and more frequent services the better.

surely a question along the lines of most non stop trains with most traction variety would be better? My first nomination would be Micheldever or Shawford from a spotting point of view
 

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Confused now. In your opening post, you wanted to know stations where every train stops, i.e. a station where there are no trains scheduled to pass through without stopping.

Now you want to know what stations are best suited for enthusiasts wishing to witness a train passing through at speed.

Watford Junction springs to mind

(oh, and freight passes through there too...)
 

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Confused now. In your opening post, you wanted to know stations where every train stops, i.e. a station where there are no trains scheduled to pass through without stopping.

Now you want to know what stations are best suited for enthusiasts wishing to witness a train passing through at speed.

Watford Junction springs to mind

(oh, and freight passes through there too...)

Sorry, I was doing it through process of elimination. Listing the stations where every train stops guarantees places where enthusiasts wishing to see trains at speed would not have any success.
 

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Apart from termini stations the Thameslink core and Merseyrail loop in Liverpool spring to mind.

Only Blackfriars & St Pancras for the Thameslink core. City Thameslink is passed by southbound trains when it is closed and Farringdon is passed by the overnight northbound trains when it is closed ;)
 

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I was looking for areas that see at least one freight train an hour, but even so i’m not sure such frequencies are prevalent outside of the major ports of Southampton and Felixstowe.

The idea of this is to try and work out which stations are best suited for enthusiasts wishing to witness a train passing through at speed. The faster and more frequent services the better.
If thats what you're after, then Carnforth. Everything going along the WCML passes at speed
 

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AFAIK, there's no passenger services that pass through Newcastle without stopping. Freight services often use the line opposite to platforms 7/8.

Same goes for Sunderland, unless LNER divert via the Durham Coast Line. York, barring the Flying Scotsman, is another one.
 

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There must be loads. Off the top of my head:
  • Newcastle, Metrocentre, Hexham, Haltwhistle
  • Heworth, Sunderland, Hartlepool, Thornaby, Middlesbrough, Redcar Central, Redcar East, Longbeck, Marske, Saltburn
  • James Cook, Marton, Gypsy Lane, Nunthorpe, Battersby, Danby
  • All the stations on the Northern City line (Moorgate-Drayton Park)
  • All the stations on the Watford DC lines (Euston-Watford Junction)
  • All the stations on the North London line (Richmond-Stratford)
  • All the stations on the East London line (Highbury & Islington-Surrey Quays)
  • All the stations on the Barking-Gospel Oak line
  • Emerson Park
  • South Greenford, Castle Bar Park, Drayton Green
  • Chester, Shrewsbury
 
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