Trivia: Stations which require multiple changes to reach from all Northern stations.

[TT-ONR-NRN]

Sheerness on Sea
Kemsing
Swale
Thames Ditton
Hampton Court
Chertsey
Addlestone

Shepperton branch, local SWR stations around Effingham Junction, Weybridge, Esher

Alton branch/Ascot-Guildford branch

 

[61653 HTAFC]

in the 2 changes from London threads a Cardiff Central - Cardiff Bay thread gets used to debunk. @Parallel however thinks that train is now gone.

So yes, Cardiff Bay is the one Welsh station that's 2-Change.

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Piccadilly line doesn't give you Heathrow Central. But is KXSP the same station as Kings Cross anyway? If so then that removes West Ham, Barking, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Rickmansworth, Chorleywood, Chalfont and Latimer, Amersham, Cannon Street, Liverpool Street and Victoria from being 2-change.

Wouldn't the Conwy Valley line be a minimum of 2 changes, at Chester (or Crewe) and Llandudno Junction?

 

[Esker-pades]

Wouldn't the Conwy Valley line be a minimum of 2 changes, at Chester (or Crewe) and Llandudno Junction?

Direct services run from Llandudno Junction, Deganwy and Llandudno to Northern stations

 

[naverag]

Wouldn't the Conwy Valley line be a minimum of 2 changes, at Chester (or Crewe) and Llandudno Junction?

There are direct trains from Manchester to Llandudno, calling at (among other Northern-managed stations) Manchester Oxford Road.

 

[mjmason1996]

Stations on HS1 will get you one change at St. Pancras.

Ahh dammitForgot about HS1!

 

[greaterwest]

Torre, Starcross

Exeter St Davids to Torre/Starcross is direct.

Gunnislake, St Budeaux Victoria Road

Plymouth to Gunnislake via St Budeaux is a direct train.

Alton branch

Don't call it a branch or the Alton Line Users Association will come after you!

Weybridge

On a serious note, Basingstoke to Weybridge is a direct train, and in the late evening, the last few trains stop at nearly all stations between Basingstoke and London Waterloo.

You can't reach Worplesdon nor any station between Farncombe and Rowlands Castle (inclusive).

You can't reach Bedhampton either, because nothing from Southampton or Winchester ever stops there.

You can't reach Corfe Castle without changing more than once because the first direct train from Bristol reaches Weymouth after the Corfe Castle train departs, and the Corfe Castle shuttles only go as far as Poole, not Bournemouth.

You can't reach the Dorking line, nor can you reach the Guildford New Lines as it'd require a change at Reading and Clapham Junction. (The XC Guildford service does not stop at any Northern stations)

You can also rule out most of the Southern network except a number of notable stations on the Southampton to Victoria service.

I can't think of anywhere South West of Bristol or Exeter that is excluded due to the Morpeth stop previously mentioned.

Thinking about my XC Guildford comment, do we count when services are on diversion, e.g. Aberdeen or Glasgow to Guildford, as below?
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/P38485/2019/08/11

 

[Captain Bigwig]

Not sure if anyone's said this yet, but there's one Cross Country train a day from Edinburgh to Reading calling at Morpeth (departing Edinburgh 0700) so you can use that to change at Reading for the North Downs line service to Guildford and Gatwick Airport.

 

[imagination]

Yep. An isolated dot far from its nearest companion.

Add in Heathrow, Marlow, Henley, Windsor and Greenford branches (or do some have Reading trains, say for depot-related activity) and that's it for GWR land.

The Henley branch has a single train to Reading which gets in at 00:42 (00:25 on Sun morning, 00:03 on Mon morning). You then have a 5.5 hour wait (or 6 hours on Sun/Mon morning), before the first northbound Cross Country.

None of the others mentioned do.

 

[Sweetjesus]

Yep. An isolated dot far from its nearest companion.

Add in Heathrow, Marlow, Henley, Windsor and Greenford branches (or do some have Reading trains, say for depot-related activity) and that's it for GWR land.

Chiltern, WMR and LNWR quite a lot covered via New Street, Coventry, Leamington and Banbury (start at Wilmslow or Congleton, which are Northern maintained) and Crewe, but there's a few gaps: Hartlebury, Aylesbury branches, Marston Vale, Abbey branch, Stourbridge Town, stations via Whitlock's End (and a couple between Dorridge and Moor Street?) and some of the stations in/near London.

SWT having Brockenhurst, Southampton, Basingstoke and Reading picks up a lot of stations in that part of the world.

I believe all the stations between Moor St. and Leamington Spa are still one change away due to occasional LM and CH services stopping all the stations between the two stations.

Stratford Upon Avon is also one change away due to CH having 1tp2h service from Leamington Spa.

 

[Chris M]

Limehouse, Emerson Park and anything on c2c east of Upminster.