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Blinkbonny

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Hi

Trying to come up with a quiz on station suffixes that have now disappeared, although the station remains.

Struggling a little off the top of my head.

So far I've got:
Bank Top
Citadel
Castle
St Marks
Thorpe

I'm sure you've got a couple of hundred more. Appreciate it. Thanks.

P.S. Did Whitby have a suffix to distinguish it from West Cliff?
 
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@Blinkbonny: do I read you rightly, that you're looking for station suffixes which are or were unique -- not "Central", "Victoria", "General", and all such common riff-raff?

There is, of course, the splendid Oldham (Mumps).
 

Blinkbonny

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Indeed so, Calthrop. I agree, such as those would be like shooting fish in a barrel. :)

(Mumps would be a tester!)
 

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There's Oldham (Werneth) too, of course. Pretty unique?

Durham Elvet - can't think of another Elvet either...
 

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Some from the 1938 Bradshaw (GW examples):
Plymouth (Millbay)
Plymouth (Mutley)
Monmouth (Troy)
Monmouth (May Hill)
Banbury (Bridge Street)
Warwick (Coventry Road)
Leamington Spa (Warwick Old Road)
Cheltenham Spa (Malvern Road)
Cirencester (Watermoor)
Stroud (Russell Street)
Stonehouse (Burdett Road)
 

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@Blinkbonny: do I read you rightly, that you're looking for station suffixes which are or were unique -- not "Central", "Victoria", "General", and all such common riff-raff?

I guess that would also exclude all those with (,... Road); Halt; Park; North/ South etc after 'rationalisation'; for xxx;and 'and xxx' ? In fact quite a lot to 'disqualify' ;)

Beyond that I only offer Plymouth (no longer North Road); Millbay and Mutley closed and little or nothing remains, though before my time; and ...

* suffixes that have now disappeared, although the station remains.*

Looking in a Summer 1964 LMR timetable I see 'Aintree Sefton Arms' as the only Aintree station. Is that now 'Aintree'? Wikipedia tells me there was an Aintree Racecourse station, renamed as Aintree in 1884 and as Aintree Central in 1950, closing in the 1960s.

And ... I think Mumps and Werneth still exist (with) or without (brackets).

It's going to be a challenge. BW.
 

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Shaw Street (St. Helens) - now called Central.
Widnes (North) (also had other names including Farnworth for Widnes.
 

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There's Oldham (Werneth) too, of course. Pretty unique?

Durham Elvet - can't think of another Elvet either...

And don't forget Clegg Street. Glodwick Road & Central in Oldham.
And not far away, in Ashton Under Lyme, the current station was Ashton Charlestown, with another station called Oldham Road.
 

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I guess that would also exclude all those with (,... Road); Halt; Park; North/ South etc after 'rationalisation'; for xxx;and 'and xxx' ? In fact quite a lot to 'disqualify' ;)

Beyond that I only offer Plymouth (no longer North Road); Millbay and Mutley closed and little or nothing remains, though before my time; and ...

* suffixes that have now disappeared, although the station remains.*

Looking in a Summer 1964 LMR timetable I see 'Aintree Sefton Arms' as the only Aintree station. Is that now 'Aintree'? Wikipedia tells me there was an Aintree Racecourse station, renamed as Aintree in 1884 and as Aintree Central in 1950, closing in the 1960s.

And ... I think Mumps and Werneth still exist (with) or without (brackets).

It's going to be a challenge. BW.

Werneth closed when Metrolink was rerouted via Oldham town centre; Mumps still exists, but relocated from the BR/NR station site.
 

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St Albans City Station was so-called from the 1923 Grouping after both it and the Abbey station became part of the LMS. But the City station suffix was dropped in 1988. The suffix was returned by First Capital Connect in 2010, only a few months before they lost the franchise!
 
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Halifax has been both Halifax Old Station and Halifax Town in the past
 

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Depending who you believe, Waverley.

Also Wolverhampton High Level and Waterloo International.
 

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To add some more -- former suffixes are in brackets:-
Appleby (West)
Bournemouth (Central)
Bolton (Trinity Street)
Chesterfield (Midland)
Crianlarich (Upper)
Derby (Midland)
Dewsbury (Wellington Road)
Dundee (Tay Bridge)
Halifax (Town)
Leicester (London Road)
Lancaster (Castle)
Loughborough (Midland)
Macclesfield (Central)
Morley (Low)
Nottingham (Midland)
Peterborough (North)
Sheffield (Midland; also appeared as Pond Street for a short time)
Southport (Chapel Street)
Wellingborough (Midland Road)
Aylesbury (Town)
Barnsley (Exchange)
Castleford (Central)
Cromer (Beach)
Felixstowe (Town)
Huntingdon (North)
Scarborough (Central)
Whitby (Town)
Leeds (City)
 

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Barnstaple (Junction) until closure of both the Ilfracombe & Bideford lines.

Chester (General) until the closure of Chester Northgate.
 

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Have we had Lympstone (Commando) and Lympstone (Village) yet?
Oh and Lelant (Saltings)...
 

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Stockport Tiviot Dale
Have we had Lympstone (Commando) and Lympstone (Village) yet?
Oh and Lelant (Saltings)...
My impression is that Stockport Tiviot Dale closed;
and that both Lympstone Commando and Lymspstone Village exist;
and so do both Lelant and Lelant Saltings.
Frinton (for-the-incontinent) Coat please.
I nearly wet myself thinking of Harwich Parkeston Quay.
 

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Looking in a Summer 1964 LMR timetable I see 'Aintree Sefton Arms' as the only Aintree station. Is that now 'Aintree'?
Today's Aintree was indeed the former Aintree Sefton Arms.

Couple of others:-
- Workington (Main)
- Whitehaven (Bransty)

And a couple of odd-balls for the OP's quiz:-
- Salford Central was simply 'Salford' for most of its existence - unusual in having a suffix added in recent times.
- Hartlepool lost its prefix (previously West Hartlepool) - IIRC a result of local government reorganisation, rather than railway rationalisation.
- Burnley Central was known as Burnley Bank Top until the mid-1960s (so Darlington was not unique)

What about Macclesfield (Hibert Road)? Is that the current Macclesfield station, or a different site which has closed? (don't have time to Google at the moment)
 
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[QUOTE="Springs Branch, post: 4525625, member: 22734"
- Hartlepool lost its prefix (previously West Hartlepool)

I often wondered whether there was a West Grinstead, or West Retford?
 

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There's a village (never had a station) of West Grinstead, in Sussex but some fifteen miles south-west of East Grinstead (with apologies to Sussex forum members, there's an old saw about "Silly Sussex"). West Retford -- "deponent sayeth not".
 

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There's a village (never had a station) of West Grinstead, in Sussex but some fifteen miles south-west of East Grinstead (with apologies to Sussex forum members, there's an old saw about "Silly Sussex"). West Retford -- "deponent sayeth not".

West Grinstead did indeed have a station, on the (Christ's Hospital, West)Horsham-Shoreham line, in between Southwater and Partridge Green.
 
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