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I think Aberdeen's Guild St and Waterloo stations would have counted as they were in passenger use until the Joint station opened. A shame the connections associated with Guild St were lost as they'd make a good connection with the ferry terminal now.

Diesel fired up. Away we go again.

On 1S26 KGX to EDB delayed on York. Announcement suggests we will be moving soon.

Bridge of Allan station isn't dramatically further away, I'd guess about 25 min vs 12 minute walk. It'll be closer still if the proposed move to nearer cornton ever happens.

I'd heard some time ago that the building that's currently a Prezzo on Kings Road here https://maps.app.goo.gl/niExjDbC7u1sxSfK6 was intended to be a station originally but I've never found any evidence for that. Makes some sense if there was a late switch to making the Chingford branch a...

The land fron the station was used for the academy and swimming pool.

Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route. The road is a distributor as much as a bypass and as the sea is to the East all the arterial routes it needed to connect with are North, West and South. There was a proposal for a route snaking up the East coast, but it was never taken very seriously... aside...

An unusual, but welcome, piece of forward planning!

The population would be a wee bit (though not a lot) more than 40k with larger commuter towns like Ellon, Mintlaw and Newmachar included. Having walked the line many times, most of the alignment is clear, partly thanks to late closure (1979) and early conversion to footpath. I reckon the big...

I've found this a fascinating thread. I'm a computer scientist, currently working in a university, and my expertise is in combinatorial and simulation based optimisation. I use stochastic methods (like simulated annealing as mentioned earlier) and exact methods like integer programming...

not sure it counts as it remains a through station, but Aberdeen lost its whole North end.

Aberdeen - particularly the north end with all the filled in platforms - but now the main entrance exterior is in the shopping centre I'd count that too.

The intercity liveried coaches in front curving around the corner onto the Tay Bridge on many family holidays south from Aberdeen. I was fascinated by the length of the train being enough that I could see the rest of it like that as a child.

Peterhead prison railway fits this one I think.

Arguably at Balloch the line was truncated to cut both Balloch Pier and Balloch Central out of existence and create the new Balloch station south of the level crossing.