Rail Blues
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York is a winner for sure. If the ECML went through Leeds
Plus there's the Manchester airport trains, an absolute boon for a night out in Leeds or Manchester if you live in York.
Wigan is incredibly well connected by both road and rail, people talk about how odd it was that the Wigan Casino in a smallish town became the preeminent venue on the northern soul scene. People from Liverpool, Manchester, Edinburgh, Birmingham and London could get there with comparative ease by rail, plus the M58 and the M6.
Growing up in a town with a population of circa 30k and no train station I certainly felt hard done to as a teenager so I'll nominate Burntwood in Staffordshire.