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Canterbury C&W station was situated in North Lane about 300 yards east of the present Canterbury West station. It closed to passengers in 1846 when the present Canterbury West station was opened. The site became the goods yard until complete closure around 1990 when much of the land was sold for...

I agree with PeterC above . Further details see "Disused Stations" website http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/b/blackfriars_ser/index.shtml

the closed stations of IBM Halt, Uralite Halt, Ampress Works, Sinfin North and Sinfin Central

Can I add the closed former London Underground carriage depots at Drayton Park and New Cross.

Reference item 79 by "Somewhere" I confirm that Broad Street to the site of former Shoreditch (North London Line ) station was closed in 1986. I was on the last train..! Whitechapel to Shoreditch (East London line station) was originally a through line to Liverpool Street. The line beyond...

Mentioning planned electrified lines that were started to be built but were abandoned before completion then a mention for the "Northern Heights" extension of the London Underground. Work started in the late 1930s to electrify Finsbury Park- Alexandra Palace/ Edgware. The conductor rails were...

Eastbourne Electric Tramway which closed around 1969 and was then moved to Seaton

Mentioned before see item no. 4 on the previous page

Some more from the South East.. Moorgate- Farringdon (Thameslink lines) Bricklayers Arms branch (partly electrified) Polegate- Stone Cross Junction Newhaven Marine branch..? Do you include spurs such as Staines West curve (Windsor branch) towards Egham. Frimley- Brookwood curve Is Fawkham Jn-...

See my entry above re- London Underground. Ongar branch closed in 1994 and electrified rails removed - now mostly reopened as Epping- Ongar Railway. I forgot about the King William Street branch closed in 1900

I am sure this has been discussed previously but here are a few from the South East-- London Underground- Holborn-Aldwych Green Park- Charing Cross (Jubilee line) Whitechapel-Shoreditch Epping-Ongar Acton Town- South Acton Hounslow Town branch (Piccadilly line) London Midland- Croxley...

Many heritage railways have reopened lines to NR stations which BR had abandoned platforms such as Keighley & Worth Valley (Keighley), North York Moors (Grosmont), Spa Valley Railway (Eridge) and Dean Forest (Lydney) Princes Risborough (down platform) was reopened for NR services and...

Norwood Junction platform 7- When was it last used? Any trains booked to use it ? Norwood Junction platform 6- Is this regularly used?

I will suggest Hessay station on the Harrogate- York line. According to the Disused Stations website by Nick Catford part of the station building is occupied by the crossing keeper. The crossing gates are locked by a ground frame on the old station platform.

It was sold in BR days and was rebuilt as a local community centre. The last information I have is that the building is still there.

In London Aldwych closed in 1994 is used for filming. Charing Cross (Jubilee Line) platforms also used for filming.

St Johns is only two platforms one each side of an island platform. It would appear that New Cross (the next station) has 3 main line platforms (ignoring the bay for East London Line services) but they serve the 3 slow lines. Just thought of Chesterfield which has 3 platforms but no platform...

Folkestone Central was reduced to one island platform in the late 1990s in conjunction with dequadrifying the line to Cheriton Jn .

The present Ashford International was rebuilt in the late 1950s but only platform 1/2 of the build now survives following reconstruction again in the 1990s for the Eurostar terminal. The Eurostar platforms now occupy the site of the original "down" island platform of the original station. St...

I agree City Thameslink is firm favourite with the change to 1 in 30 near the Blackfriars end of the platforms