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Stations not near their names
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Agree -- a to-be-lamented "one that got away", re active preservation; I understand that there were preservation-type hopes and plans some fifty years ago, but in the event nothing was achievable. Indeed a delightful line; I had the good fortune in childhood and youth, to get a very little (not travelling, just observing) first-hand experience of it in action -- both before, and after, withdrawal of passenger services.
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Or any former GWR stations called so and so road, which meant they were nowhere near the place they were meant to serve. Kiplingcotes on the old York to Beverley line was built to serve South Dalton Estate and is several miles from South Dalton.
Come to think of it Malton Station is technically in Norton
Joshua_Harman
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Hamble, Quite a walk from the village itself.
steamybrian
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If you include closed stations then..
Gatehouse of Fleet station (closed 1965) was over 6 miles from the town of that name.
Gatehouse of Fleet station (closed 1965) was over 6 miles from the town of that name.
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New Pudsey.
Pontefract Monkhill is a bit of a trek too.
Pontefract Monkhill is a bit of a trek too.
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Horsted Keynes station is quite a trek from the village.
The old ramp from the Pallasades took you pretty close to New Street, but it was never the main entrance admittedly.
But calling it Clapham Junction (as it once was) may have confused people.
Rainford was Rainford Junction.
But it was a junction going to the WCML, you can still see the viaduct in the Lune gorge off the WCML. IIRC the Midland Railway built it before they built the S & C. But problems with the L.N.W.R. forced their hand.
Just had a look at Giggleswick and the distance to Giggleswick school, walking 1.1 miles.
Then I had a look at the distance to Giggleswick school from Settle and it's the same at 1.1 miles.
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Here’s one with a bit of a tale….
When the Melton Mowbray to Nottingham railway was built, there was a station at Saxelbye village, and it was located at the entrance to the village, nicely placed for the inhabitants.
However, nine miles to the east was a station called Saxby, and the story goes that passengers got confused, so Saxelbye was renamed Grimston, a village some 1.3 miles away, 3 months after opening.
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When the Melton Mowbray to Nottingham railway was built, there was a station at Saxelbye village, and it was located at the entrance to the village, nicely placed for the inhabitants.
However, nine miles to the east was a station called Saxby, and the story goes that passengers got confused, so Saxelbye was renamed Grimston, a village some 1.3 miles away, 3 months after opening.
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But there is a pub at gig station, albeit on the other side of the A65
William3000
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It does seem bizarre that Shippea Hill remains open. What is the point of it? I got off there once just out of intrigue but it serves no purpose.
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Allersberg on the Neubaustrecke Nürnberg-München is a fair hike from its namesake, as I discovered in late-2017.
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So much so, the settlement that has grown up around the station is called "Micheldever Station".
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Welwyn North is east of Welwyn. It is north of Welwyn Garden City, which is not the same place at all, as the residents of Welwyn village will tell you. Welwyn North really should be called Digswell.
My understanding is that as of recent decades, Britain's railway undertakings have become very loath to close stations: because nowadays, closing any station involves copious and complicated administrative proceedings, and formidable legal costs. With remote and little-used stations which have, nonetheless, survived -- maybe freakishly -- into present times, from those in which the closing of stations was easier; it is considerably less bothersome to keep them notionally open, likely with an infinitesimally small number of workings actually serving them. There is a thread active at present on the "Speculative Ideas" sub-forum -- What stations do you think may close within the next 5 to 10 years? -- discussion in which, includes thoughts about this phenomenon.
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Heard that assertion on here many a time without the supposed costs ever being quantified; and it does seem surprising that there are current proposals to close the relatively well patronised Cottingley station (near Leeds), but Shippea Hill and other scarcely used stations don't ever seem to be under active consideration for closure.
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Ah, but that was Sawley Junction prior to 1967, when the Long Eaton station in the town centre closed.
Nice walk to the village though.
That's still a long way.
WesternBiker
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The same can be said of Pilning, now - with two trains a week in one direction, and also a good 1.5 miles from the village it serves. I went through it on Thursday and the down platform has almost disappeared beneath undergrowth.
Just down the road from Shippea Hill, Lakenheath is a couple of miles from the village - and has fewer than 500 entries and exits a year.
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The whole local area is called Bermuda.
Yes, I am aware
dk1
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It’s too expensive to close a station.
I always wonder why it wasn’t named Lakenheath Road. Many other stations that where some distance from the places they intended to serve had ‘Road’ after the name.
MP393
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Winsford is 1.5 miles from the town centre and is actually in Wharton.
Further up the road you’ve got Sandbach station which is 1.5 miles from its town centre too, in Elworth. In fact on this one, the Arriva bus timetables for the local bus route actually refer to it (or used to until recently) as Elworth station!
Further up the road you’ve got Sandbach station which is 1.5 miles from its town centre too, in Elworth. In fact on this one, the Arriva bus timetables for the local bus route actually refer to it (or used to until recently) as Elworth station!
Chapel-en-le-Frith Station is a mile away from and 1000 feet above the town. Rail replacement buses don't go to the station which is a bit of a mugger if your car is parked at the station.
And New Mills Newtown station is handy for Newtown but is three quarters of a mile from New Mills. It should really called Newtown since the NEW Mills has its own station
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Suppose it helps distinguish it from the Newtown in Powys.
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As the line also doesn't go through Annbank, Weston Bridge Halt would also count.
Micheldever originally opened as Andover Road (it is close to what is now the A303), before that town was rail-served. Once Andover had its own station, Andover Road was renamed after the nearest village. Intrestingly, the line actually passes within half a mile of Micheldever village some way south of the station.
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