Only Manchester Road has a hint of main line about it and I hazard that the combined passenger numbers for all 4 may not come close to the figures for Halifax/Rochdale/Blackburn (insert comparable Northern town here). I think in Burnley’s case there are two lines and strung out urban development.
I tried to come up with a sensible idea for rationalising the three stations but it's difficult to see anything which doesn't inconvenience a load of passengers and/or involve knocking down half the town centre to move the junction to a central interchange (which, I imagine, is why it hasn't been done!).
I think he may be referring to the TfW station and the Great Orme tramway one.
I get the two.line issue but it seems strange to keep both stations on to give 167 people the choice between shopping at Tesco in Oban.or Morrisons in Fort William! I wonder if there is a tourist market being served that is the real justification?
I doubt it very much, a cable hauled tram is not even close to a mainline railway that has stations which I'm pretty certain is what the OP was meaning and all posts seem to have taken as such.
In which case Llandudno has 4!
On that logic close them both. As mentioned above they're both unstaffed and the marginal costs of these (and other other remote stations) are baked into the operating costs of the service as is.
Nunthorpe? There is only one station there and surely that's included in the Middlesbrough group? Middlesbrough, James Cook, Marton, Nunthorpe (the latter three om the Whitby line) & South Bank on the line to Redcar & Saltburn. Middlesbrough had a population of 152,650 in mid 2023 according to a Google search.
You could add another - Bargeddie, while just outside Coatbridge, is closer for some residents of Kirkwood than Kirkwood station. Or is that pushing it a bit?
Completely forgot about Gypsy Lane, sorry!
