Trivia: Smallest towns with more than one station

[peters]

It's all a matter of definition, I'd say Tyndrum is a village not a town.

A town should have a town charter which usually means either it has a market or it used to have one.

 

[mister-sparky]

for most of the answers in this thread people are using borough boundaries not the actual town...

 

[High Dyke]

That takes the cake probably. But why does a village of 167 have any stations at all, let alone 2?

Historically it would've been down to which railway company built the line long that route.

 

[Strathclyder]

Weren’t there seven stations in the Burgh at one point?

Indeed, Clydebank Riverside & Dalmuir Riverside (both closed in 1964). 8 if you include Clydebank East (closed in 1959).

 

[matchmaker]

Historically it would've been down to which railway company built the line long that route.

Two separate companies built two separate (and unconnected) lines to port towns in the West Highlands. It would have been total madness not to serve one of the few populated settlements on the routes.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Two separate companies built two separate (and unconnected) lines to port towns in the West Highlands. It would have been total madness not to serve one of the few populated settlements on the routes.

Indeed. An as most of the route(s) is single track, might as well have a station at the passing loops you will need.

 

[jfisher21]

There is the big welly truck stop at Tyndrum with an outdoor clothes shop, also a couple of other cafes. So worth having a station there as might attract a few tourists.

 

[Mac080758]

Burscough has two, but I'm not sure of the population. Wasn't there a similar thread about this topic a while ago?

2011 census the population was about 9,100 but there is potential for expansion.

 

[fenman35]

Cromer, 7683 (2011) Cromer and Roughton Road stations

 

[C J Snarzell]

Could Newton-Le-Willows technically have two stations? Earlestown is a small commercial area with a popular market. Everywhere around it is more or less classed as Newton anyway so that would suggest Earlestown is in Newton. Therefore it is a small town with two train stations.

CJ

 

[_toommm_]

Hyde has four - Hyde North and Hyde Central on the way to Rose Hill; and Flowery Field and Newton for Hyde on the way to Glossop and Hadfield.

 

[C J Snarzell]

Hyde has four - Hyde North and Hyde Central on the way to Rose Hill; and Flowery Field and Newton for Hyde on the way to Glossop and Hadfield.

Flowery Field to me, always conjures up something very inappropriate concerning the female anatomy. Maybe it's just my very warped mind!!!

CJ

 

[_toommm_]

Flowery Field to me, always conjures up something very inappropriate concerning the female anatomy. Maybe it's just my very warped mind!!!

CJ

To me it makes it sound like a very nice place, although what they’ve done with the station is quite the opposite!

Same with Welwyn Garden City, although I’m not sure what that’s like.