Inter City-only stations

[Norwich]

Wonder if anyone can expand on this:

A local station to me, Diss, holds a rare distinction of being exclusively served by Inter City services only.

Can anyone offer any other stations that enjoy this accolade?

I'm intrigued!

 

[Mojo]

Good question, not something I'd thought about before!

Two I can think of are Dunbar and Berwick-upon-Tweed.

 

[Royston Vasey]

Assuming that Transpennine counts as an inter-city service, then IIRC Northallerton and Thirsk are served only by TPE, GC and NXEC (not Thirsk)

 

[devon_metro]

Tiverton Parkway.

 

[Norwich]

Thanks, this really fascinates me...can't be too many more I'm thinking...

 

[Bittern]

Lockerbie in Scotland.

 

[me123]

Lockerbie. Again, this assumes that TPE is an intercity service, which is a rather fair assumption on the Glasgow/Edinburgh-Manchester routes.

EDIT: RPM just beat me to it :x

 

[MCR247]

Chester-le-Street? Durham

 

[Norwich]

Hmmm...never considered TPE as an Inter-City, but I guess there is an argument to include it as one.

Does Durham have no locals??

 

[MCR247]

I'd dont think so

 

[Mojo]

Chester-le-Street? Durham

Both have a small number of Northern services.

 

[MCR247]

Oh right. Sorry

 

[Mojo]

Tiverton Parkway.

There are a couple of class 2 trains there, I know there is one from Exeter to Bristol and another from Cardiff.

 

[MCR247]

Wellingborough, Kettering, Corby, Market Harborough

 

[TheBigD]

For a while in the 1990's St Pancras was exclusively Intercity, though it did see occasional Thameslink trains when there was engineering work.

 

[Mojo]

Now the Birmingham - Leicester - Cambridge - Stansted service is operated by CrossCountry, could we say that stations such as Water Orton, Coleshill Parkway & South Wigston are now only served by InterCity trains?

 

[tbtc]

Good question!

Harder to tell these days, with "super" franchises like NXEA and FGW, but Penrith deserves a mention (same trains as Lockerbie)
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Now the Birmingham - Leicester - Cambridge - Stansted service is operated by CrossCountry, could we say that stations such as Water Orton, Coleshill Parkway & South Wigston are now only served by InterCity trains?

...and Burton on Trent, by that logic...

 

[Mintona]

Ebbsfleet International?

Pewsey?

 

[yorkie]

Assuming that Transpennine counts as an inter-city service, then IIRC Northallerton and Thirsk are served only by TPE, GC and NXEC (not Thirsk)

If a 3-car rattling DMU that calls at random shacks like Yarm and Garforth counts as "InterCity", then anything that's not Pacer operated can also count

 

[MCR247]

What about Liverpool - Norwich? Is it that inter-city?

 

[yorkie]

What about Liverpool - Norwich? Is it that inter-city?

No. Although 158s do have a sort-of InterCity ambience, as they have end doors, I'd say not. The calling pattern is not fitting with an InterCity service either.

I'd say anything that wasn't an InterCity service when InterCity existed can't really claim to be InterCity now!

 

[ChrisTheRef]

Runcorn =]

Only has London and Birmingham services

 

[yorkie]

And Crewe stoppers!

 

[ChrisTheRef]

Two services a day, bit pedantic surely?

 

[mathmo]

The LM Liverpool - Birmingham trains surely count as stoppers, not Intercity! They stop at quite a few places!

 

[Norwich]

Yorkie, that's probably a good way of defining it - original Inter-City services are the only ones that truly count.

Further posts - the rules have been set

 

[ChrisTheRef]

I've seen a fair few LM trains which go LIV-LPY-RUN-CRE-STA-WVH-BHM

I think that's quite intercity.

 

[Bittern]

EDIT: RPM just beat me to it :x

Muhuhahahahahahahaha!

 

[scrapy]

Oxenholme, Penrith, Malton? (think intercity used to run to Scarborough)

 

[yorkie]

Oxenholme, Penrith, Malton? (think intercity used to run to Scarborough)

TPE has never been "InterCity".

Until approx 1991, they did run decent long trains with loco hauled stock, it wasn't operated by InterCity but I guess it was not far off in terms of the length of train and calling pattern. But since then it's been downgraded into a short formed DMU operation which certainly doesn't meet any of the criteria in by opinion.