Trivia: Overlapping station names

[zwk500]

So have we established what the most is? Lot of people coming up with two, a few threes but don’t think any fours.

is there any trains that call at Alderington, littlehampton, Warblington, Bedhampton and Southampton?

Doubt there's any that call at Littlehampton as a mid-point save for diversions.

However you can get on a train at Wolverton that calls at Northampton, Hampton-in-arden and Marston Green. Sadly I think trains that call at Cheddington and Wolverton don't go beyond Northampton so you don't get a 5. When it was splitting/joining at New Street you might have got a couple more in.

In any case, I thought the OP was asking for stations where the entire word was contained, not just an overlapping syllable? E.g. Eltham and New Eltham.

 

[Envy123]

How about Huntingdon to Farringdon via London St Pancras International?

 

[zwk500]

How about Huntingdon to Farringdon via London St Pancras International?

On that point, the same train goes through London Blackfriars, London Bridge and East Croydon.

 

[unlevel42]

(Stoke) 0629 from May

Congleton
Adlington
Poynton
Heaton Chapel
Bolton
Adlington
Preston
Poulton le Fylde
Layton

(Blackpool North) 0849

 

[Envy123]

On that point, the same train goes through London Blackfriars, London Bridge and East Croydon.

Yeah and come to think of it, Coulsdon South too.

On the same train route but different pairs, we have Horley to Crawley.

 

[zwk500]

Yeah and come to think of it, Coulsdon South too.

On the same train route but different pairs, we have Horley to Crawley.

Either way, I think the OP's original intent was for the shorter station name to be entirely within the longer station name, scrabble-style.

 

[tubenutter]

Though it doesn't meet the criteria completely of one station name being completely contained in another, it seems worth mentioning the TransPennine Express services that call at all four of: Manchester Airport, Manchester Piccadilly, Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester Victoria.

 

[_toommm_]

There’s Hyde North and Hyde Central on one service (Manchester Piccadilly to Rose Hill Marple)

 

[Dave S 56F]

Commondale and Kildale and Glaisdale on the Esk valley line to Whitby all end in Dale.

Cardiff Queen street Cardiff Central Wakefield Westgate and Wakefield Kirkgate.

 

[mirodo]

Ayr & Newton-on-Ayr

 

[Envy123]

Bloxwich - Bloxwich North.

 

[greaterwest]

Some of these may have already been mentioned;

Dunfermline Town and Dunfermline Queen Margaret

Bristol Temple Meads and Bristol Parkway
Weston Milton and Weston-super-Mare
Dorchester West and Dorchester South (before COVID)
Yeovil Junction and Yeovil Pen Mill
Lympstone Village and Lympstone Commando
Dawlish and Dawlish Warren
Bere Ferres and Bere Alston
St Budeaux Ferry Road and St Budeaux Victoria Road
Exeter Central, Exeter St Davids and Exeter St Thomas

Cardiff Central and Cardiff Queen Street
Cardiff Queen Street and Cardiff Bay
Barry Docks, Barry and Barry Island
Trefforest and Trefforest Estate
Dinas Rhondda and Ystrad Rhondda
Merthyr Vale and Merthyr Tydfil
Llandudno and Llandudno Junction
Maesteg (Ewenny Road) and Maesteg
Pembroke and Pembroke Dock
Wrexham General and Wrexham Central
Hawarden and Hawarden Bridge
Llanfairfechan and Llanfairpwll

Kempton and Kempton Park
Ryde Pier Head, Ryde Esplanade and Ryde St Johns Road
Southampton Airport Parkway and Southampton Central

Some questionable ones below,
Honiton and Feniton
Torre and Torquay
Exton and Exmouth
Weston-super-Mare, Westbury and Dorchester West (once a week)
Llan-anything on the Heart of Wales line

 

[james73]

Dalmuir - Springburn via Yoker
Scotstounhill Jordanhill Barnhill