Station association

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Prior to Grouping in 1923, the Great Central Railway also controlled London Marylebone.

 

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London Fenchurch Street is also one of the four railway stations on a British Monopoly board.

 

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Darlington is also a four-platform station that was opened in 1841.

 

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Darlington historically had the suffix Bank Top.
Across the Pennines, in 1944 the LMS renamed Burnley Bank Top station to Burnley Central.

 

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Church and Oswaldtwistle was also opened by the East Lancashire Railway in 1848.

 

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Rishton is also a station on the East Lancashire Line which only has step-free access to one of it's two platforms.

 

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Huncoat is also an East Lancashire Railway station whose original station location was moved to a better-placed site.

 

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Between 14th May 2012 and 10th July 2013, Huncoat was a request stop; Pleasington was another station that became a request stop at the same time, but hasn't been changed back.

 

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Thurgarton is also a railway station that was opened in 1846 and having the lowest DfT category rating of F2.

 

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Parbold also has a level crossing adjacent to the station.

 

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Bescar Lane was also opened by the Manchester and Southport Railway in 1855.

 

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New Lane is also an unstaffed station on the Manchester to Southport Line, although it does have a ticket machine, whereas Bescar Lane does not.

 

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Waterbeach is another two-platform station where one of the platforms has been reconstructed in a staggered arrangement due to a nearby level crossing.

 

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Ely was also opened by the Eastern Counties Railway in 1845.

 

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The station building at Ely was designed by Francis Thompson, who was also responsible for the station at Flint.

 

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Abergele and Pensarn was also opened by the Chester and Holyhead Railway in 1848.

 

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Abergele and Pensarn station was the location of two LMS Caravans (Camping Coaches) in 1935 and 1936 followed by three caravans from 1937 to 1939. During Coronation Week in 1937, around fifty vehicles were moved to the London area to provide accommodation for parties wishing to witness the Coronation. In the usual LMS way they were sited in colonies; the final disposition of the coaches is uncertain but one of the planned locations was to be Rickmansworth station.

 

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Meols Cop was also opened in 1887.

 

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Meols Cop station is only accessible via stairs, so there is no disabled access; the same applies to Swinton station.

 

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Meols Cop station is only accessible via stairs, so there is no disabled access; the same applies to Swinton station.

Is that the SWINTON on the west of the Pennines or the one on the east of the Pennines?

 

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The NRE app confirms the platforms at Swinton (S. Yorks) are all accessible, while Swinton (Manchester) is the one with access only by stairs.

Salwick has an island platform layout, which historically served only the slow lines of a four-track main line.

 

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Layton is also a station with the lowest DfT category rating of F2 that was opened by the Preston and Wyre Joint Railway.

 

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Layton station was named Bispham for many years before being re-named by the LMS in 1938.

Another station which changed its name to something completely different from the longstanding original (West Weybridge) is Byfleet & New Haw.

 

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Parson Street was also opened in 1927.

 

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Bishopbriggs is also a station with an ecclesiastical connection in it's name.

 

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Croy was also opened by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway in 1842.

 

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The Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway station building at Croy has been demolished and replaced with a modern, glass and steel building designed by IDP Architects of Glasgow. The same firm has designed and carried out a programme of refurbishment works at Gleneagles station.

 

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Virginia Water was also opened in 1856.

 

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The Waterloo to Reading Line and the Chertsey Branch Line join at Virginia Water with the platforms at the junction; one of the three stations on the latter is at Addlestone.

 

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Spalding is also a DfT category "E" station that was opened in 1848.