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Lowestoft is also a terminal station with a DfT category rating of C2.

 

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Lowestoft is geographically the most easterly station on the National Rail network.
The most southerly is Penzance.

 

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Mr H Morris was Station Master at Penzance between 1912 and 1916; he had previously been the Station Master at Paignton.

 

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Ewell West is also a DfT category C2 station that was opened in 1859.

 

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Ewell East station has also been in London Travelcard Zone 6 since 2007.

 

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Cheam was also opened in 1847 by the Croydon and Epsom Railway.

 

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In 1844 Cheam was on the planned route for the London to Portsmouth atmospheric railway. The section of line between Croydon and Epsom was part of the London & Croydon Railway, who promoted the Clegg and Samuda atmospheric principle. The project failed, and Cheam station became part of the London Brighton & South Coast Railway in 1847. Pumping stations were built at Portland Road, Croydon and Dartmouth Arms. The latter station was opened by the original L&CR on 5 June 1839, and named after the local inn; it is still open, but is now called Forest Hill station.

 

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Bletchley is also a DfT category C2 station that was opened in 1839.

 

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East-West Rail plans to build a strategic railway connecting East Anglia with Western and Central England. In particular, building from Oxford to Cambridge via Bletchley and Bedford, with branches to Aylesbury (connecting at Winslow, which will reopen) and Milton Keynes Central (connecting at Bletchley). Part of the Oxford/Aylesbury - Bletchley section re-uses the Varsity line, which still open to freight traffic. It is projected to be complete in 2025.

 

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Cleethorpes is also a DfT category "D" station that was opened in 1863.

 

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Cardiff Queen Street also has an option for PlusBus through ticketing arrangements.

 

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Cardiff Queen St is the terminus for a short, one-station branch line operated by a frequent shuttle service.
This is also the case at Stourbridge Junction.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kidderminster is also a DfT category "D" station that was opened in 1852.

 

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Oxford also has direct trains to London Marylebone.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Penzance is also a four-platform station that was opened in 1852.

 

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In 1879. the original Penzance station was replaced by the current station, which was built in rock-faced granite to a design by William Lancaster Owen (1843 - 1911) who was a British civil engineer primarily with the Great Western Railway. Another of his projects was the rebuilding of Torquay station in 1878.

 

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Torre was also opened by the Dartmouth and Torbay Railway.

 

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Dawlish Warren station also lies on the Riviera Line.

 

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There are also uninterrupted sea views from the platforms at Grange-over-Sands.

 

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Kents Bank station also has step-free access to both of it's platforms.

 

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Silverdale was also opened by the Ulverston(e) (sic) and Lancaster Railway in 1857.

 

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Silverdale is generally served by the hourly Furness Line services from Lancaster to Barrow-in-Furness, operated by Northern. Several longer-distance services from Carlisle to Manchester Airport via Wigan and Manchester Piccadilly also call at this station.

 

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The reduction of what was previously a through service to terminate at Manchester Airport resulted Styal being left with no service, though this service will be restored on the 17th May.

 

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Mauldeth Road was also opened by the London and North Western Railway in 1909.

 

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The first stage of the LMR's 25kV electrification programme was energised in the late 1950s on the Styal line.
AM4 (later Class 304) EMUs called at Mauldeth Road en route between Manchester Piccadilly and Wilmslow.

 

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Swindon is also a four-platform station that was opened in 1842.

 

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Bolton has also had an extra platform added within the past decade.

 

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Bedford is also a five-platform station with a DfT category rating of C1.

 

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Kempston Hardwick is also a station on the Marston Vale Line.

 

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Dockyard is also a DfT category F2 station that was opened in 1905.