pitdiver
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Unless I've misread or missed how about Bedford (Midland Rd)
and next westwards is Devonport, formerly Devonport Albert Road when there was also a Devonport Kings Road (formerly Devonport and Stonehouse?) which closed in the 1960s.Beyond that I only offer Plymouth (no longer North Road)
Today's Aintree was indeed the former Aintree Sefton Arms.
Couple of others:-
- Workington (Main)
- Whitehaven (Bransty)
And a couple of odd-balls for the OP's quiz:-
- Salford Central was simply 'Salford' for most of its existence - unusual in having a suffix added in recent times.
- Hartlepool lost its prefix (previously West Hartlepool) - IIRC a result of local government reorganisation, rather than railway rationalisation.
- Burnley Central was known as Burnley Bank Top until the mid-1960s (so Darlington was not unique)
What about Macclesfield (Hibert Road)? Is that the current Macclesfield station, or a different site which has closed? (don't have time to Google at the moment)
Lympstone Village only had the suffix added in the 1990s. Have any other existing stations had a suffix added in modern times?Have we had Lympstone (Commando) and Lympstone (Village) yet?
Oh and Lelant (Saltings)...
Lympstone Village only had the suffix added in the 1990s. Have any other existing stations had a suffix added in modern times?
According to that great Oracle aka Wikipedia_Didcot became Didcot Parkway, in what, the mid 80's??? Alfreton became Alfreton & Mansfield Parkway, but since Mansfield re-opened on the Robin Hood Line, it's now back to plain Alfreton.
Depending who you believe, Waverley.
Also Wolverhampton High Level and Waterloo International.
On the same line, Llandudno Junction was very briefly known as "Llandudno and Llanrwst Junction". But that's not actually a suffix to the station name.Tal-y-Cafn (for Eglwysbach)
Llanrwst (and Trefriw), but now known as North Llanrwst, and Llanrwst is a new station situated (unsurprisingly) to the south of North LLanrwst!
St Albans City Station was so-called from the 1923 Grouping after both it and the Abbey station became part of the LMS. But the City station suffix was dropped in 1988. The suffix was returned by First Capital Connect in 2010, only a few months before they lost the franchise!