Trivia: Closest stations to each other as the crow flies

[Essan]

The fact that the platforms are numbered as a single station is the key thing for me

Aye. Something I hadn't noticed - though to be fair I have only used the low level platforms once, about 30 years ago!

 

[65477]

Surely manyNational Rail / London Underground stations are technically and legally separate stations. In London the two Hammersmith stations are the opposite each other and the two Shepherd's Bush stations Overground / Central line are again close.

 

[SteveM70]

If the national rail / underground example means we’re extending this to stations belonging to different organisations Keighley national rail and Keighley K&WR are zero feet apart

 

[xotGD]

Leeds City and Leeds Whitehall

 

[Ashley Hill]

Exton and Lympstone Commando.

 

[A0wen]

Walthamstow Central & Walthamstow Queens Road - a couple of hundred metres apart.

 

[Gwenllian2001]

Not sure if this has been discussed already but just wondered what the two closest stations to each other are?

I'd have to go with three options: Heath High Level and Heath Low Level; Ty Glas and Birchgrove and Whyteleafe and Upper Warlingham.

If closed stations are allowed, I would suggest Cogan and Penarth Dock stations. Cogan, of course, is still open. Just a few yards away.

 

[mrcheek]

North Camp and Ash Vale are close enough to be considered an interchange.

although its a good couple of hundred yards, a longer walk than I expected!

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Leeds City and Leeds Whitehall

City and Wellington, surely? Whitehall was on the eponymous curve avoiding the station(s).

 

[apinnard]

Probably not the shortest distance, but quite close together are Maryland and Stratford on the GEML.

 

[birchesgreen]

Covent Garden and Leicester Square are very close, 260m away in fact

 

[Essan]

The 2 Kidderminster stations (Network Rail and Severn Valley Railway) are adjacent to each other, but totally separate.

 

[xotGD]

City and Wellington, surely? Whitehall was on the eponymous curve avoiding the station(s).

Sorry yes - my mistake.

How about the current Bingley and the former Bingley, which was just a hundred yards or so along the tracks.

 

[pdeaves]

The 2 Kidderminster stations (Network Rail and Severn Valley Railway) are adjacent to each other, but totally separate.

Similarly at Paignton.

 

[SargeNpton]

City and Wellington, surely? Whitehall was on the eponymous curve avoiding the station(s).

Leeds Whitehall was actually a temporary station circa 2002-2003; used when Leeds station was closed for rebuilding.

 

[ginge8991]

Duke Street and Alexandra Parade in Glasgow?

 

[Western 52]

Manchester Piccadilly and the Metrolink station directly below?

 

[Western Lord]

If taking into account closed stations, the MR and GWR stations at Evesham faced each other across a joint access road.

 

[bnsf734]

On the London Underground there are Queensway and Bayswater, just around the corner from each other, despite how the map shows them.

There are also the 2 Hackney Stations connected by a footpath (Hackney Central and Hackney Downs) and also on the Overground we have Forest Gate on the Shenfield line and Wanstead Park on the Goblin 0.2 miles apart.

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

Interesting to see an LNER station in Wales, I didn't know that such a thing existed

Accessed via Woodhead and the CLC network to Chester Northgate.
It also connected with the Cambrian system at Wrexham Central, and had links to Denbighshire mines and Brymbo steelworks.
The Bidston-Shotton iron ore traffic for John Summers at Dee Marsh was also a GC/LNER traffic.
The CLC itself became controlled by the LNER as it had 2/3 ownership from the GN and GC, the other 1/3 being Midland.
The branch from Glazebrook to Wigan Central/St Helens Central was another GC/LNER property west of Manchester.

 

[Railwaysceptic]

Walthamstow Central & Walthamstow Queens Road - a couple of hundred metres apart.

This issue should have been tackled in the 1960s when the Victoria Line was planned and built and the first of several reshapings of Walthamstow's central shopping area was organised. A new combined station including St. James's Street, one station instead of three, would have been ideal. Today, Walthamstow Bus Station is one of the busiest in London, but in the 1960s there was none at all!

 

[greyman42]

West India quay - Canary Wharf - Heron Quays.

 

[xotGD]

Were Gateshead East and Gateshead West classed as two separate stations?

 

[6Gman]

Walton and Rice Lane on Merseyrail

Until you try to walk from one to the other !

 

[ian1944]

Dolphinton Caledonian and North British were just across the main road from each other, with a connecting track.

 

[Lukeo2311]

1. Port Sunlight - Bebington
2. Bromborough Rake - Bromborough
3. Birkenhead Central - Green Lane

Just 3 I thought of on The Wirral Line of Merseyrail

 

[D841 Roebuck]

As the crow flies?

Wings preened, hop onto the viewing platform railing, then dive off, heading almost due north, at a downwards angle of 45 degrees plus...

Jungrfraujoch to Eigergletscher would be pretty rapid for corvidae, although the return might need a handy thermal!

 

[philthetube]

Edgeware Rd. and Edgeware Rd.

 

[Bevan Price]

Some now closed: Bootle, Balliol Road & Oriel Road.
Bank Hall & Canada Dock.
Sandhills & Huskisson.
Aintree Sefton Arms & Aintree Central.
Deansgate & Manchester Central.
London Liverpool St. & Broad St.

 

[richw]

Similarly at Paignton.

Totnes for mainline and heritage are pretty close too?
Bodmin parkway for network rail and heritage as well?

As for the original question the two St budeaux stations are the closest to each other in England as previously given.