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EbbwJunction1

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The Ribble Valley Line begins at Clitheroe and runs to Manchester Victoria, passing through Blackburn on the way. Another station it passes through is Ramsgreave and Wilpshire.
 

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The 3 letter code Barrow-upon-Soar is made from the same letters as Birmingham Snow Hill (Snow Hill is BSW, while Barrow-upon-Soar is BWS).
 

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Conwy is also a station opened in the 1840's closed in the 1960's and re opened later that century.
 

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Although the station signage displays only Ashford, the station is referred to in timetables, and as printed on railway tickets, either as Ashford (Surrey), or Ashford (Middlesex) (from the historic county), in order to differentiate it from Ashford International station in Kent.
 

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Leeds City, the station now known just as "Leeds", was formed by the LMS and LNER in 1939 by combining two adjacent stations (Leeds New, a former LNWR & NER joint operation, and the Midland Railway's Leeds Wellington) into one.

Another station where two adjacent stations have been merged into one is Wrexham General.
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Until today, I'd always thought New Station St. in Leeds had that name because it was "the new street to the railway station". Now it seems it was really "the street to New Station".
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