Trivia: Which UK stations have (or have historically) had stations using the same name but with a slight variation?

[generalnerd]

An example would be King’s Cross midland, the original Thameslink station at King’s Cross. There’s also Glasgow central/queen street low level but are there any other historic/present day stations like this?

To avoid confusion, I mean ‘spin-off’ stations like Glasgow central + Glasgow Central Low Level.

 

[DPQ]

Heathrow Terminals 2 & 3 on Piccadilly Line was 1, 2 & 3 until terminal 1 closed.

Coulsdon Town was Smitham until 2010ish

 

[zwk500]

There's probably a couple that have swapped between Road/Junction/Parkway suffixes.

 

[generalnerd]

There's probably a couple that have swapped between Road/Junction/Parkway suffixes.

I think I’ve not made myself clear. I mean the ‘spin-off stations’ like how Glasgow has Glasgow Central and Glasgow Central Low Level. I’ll edit my post to make it clearer.

 

[D6130]

Helensburgh became Helensburgh Central in 1894 when the West Highland Line - with it's station at Helensburgh Upper - was opened.

 

[thenorthern]

London Waterloo East, West Hampsted Thameslink, Liverpool Lime Street Low Level.

In days gone by I know there were Wrexham Exchange and Manchester Exchange which were spin off stations from Wrexham General and Manchester Victoria, respectively.

 

[Gloster]

London Waterloo East, West Hampsted Thameslink, Liverpool Lime Street Low Level.

In days gone by I know there were Wrexham Exchange and Manchester Exchange which were spin off stations from Wrexham General and Manchester Victoria, respectively.

Wrexham Exchange was originally a completely separate station from the one opened by the Shrewsbury & Chester, later the Great Western one and eventually Wrexham General under BR. Exchange was opened by the Wrexham, Mold & Connah’s Quay Railway, later the Great Central and LNER. Early on there was only a siding connection and only in 1981 was Exchange merged into General.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Believe 'Elstree and Borehamwood' station has, in the past, previously been known as 'Elstree and Boreham Wood'.

And also just as 'Elstree' (more than once!)

 

[MadMarsupial]

Llanrwst originally then Llanrwst North and now North Llanrwst. Has also been Llanrwst and Trefriw. The new Llanrwst Station being less than a km away.

 

[Dr Hoo]

I presume that distinctions such as Birmingham New Street and Birmingham Moor Street (or Curzon Street) are not in scope. Or Manchester London Road and Manchester Piccadilly?

 

[cadder toad]

Manchester Piccadilly did have Manchester Mayfield. Piccadilly may have been known as London Rd at the time

The current Leeds station had platforms used by trains on the St Pancras and Carlisle lines. I think it had a different name from the part that developed into the current station

Waterloo has Waterloo East

 

[D6130]

The current Leeds station had platforms used by trains on the St Pancras and Carlisle lines. I think it had a different name from the part that developed into the current station

Leeds Wellington (or Wellington Street?).

 

[cadder toad]

Elgin and Elgin East?

 

[jfowkes]

Nottingham London Road became Nottingham London Road Low Level when Nottingham London Road High Level came along, logically enough.

 

[leytongabriel]

The line from North Woolwich through Stratford to Tottenham Hale and Palace Gates used to stop at Stratford Low Level which
is now ( as Jubilee Line and DLR ) just plain Stratford.

 

[MadMac]

Partick and Partick Hill?

 

[Springs Branch]

Historically, Liverpool Central was a High Level main line station (for CLC services towards Manchester Central and beyond) with a completely separate Low Level station underneath (for Mersey & Wirral trains). Low Level regularly was explicitly described as such to avoid confusion.

Today the situation has migrated across to Liverpool Lime Street, which has Merseyrail’s Lime Street station underground and operationally quite separate to the main station. Not sure whether, or how often, the Wirral Line station is referred to as "Lime Street Low Level" these days.


Another example might have been Morecambe Euston Road - originally the LNWR’s station in the town but - after amalgamation with the Midland Railway into the LMS - became effectively a spin-off or overflow for the main (ex-Midland) station at Morecambe Promenade during the summer season.

IIRC the two stations were around half a mile apart, and punters hurrying back for their homeward excursion trains reportedly had to be careful to remember which station they had arrived at.

 

[BeijingDave]

Newark North Gate and Newark Northgate

 

[THC]

Leeds/Leeds City (still referred to by the latter name on external signage)
Derby/Derby Midland (ditto).

THC

 

[ac6000cw]

Today's plain 'Lincoln' station was called Lincoln Central until 2019, with Lincoln St. Marks (closed in 1985) a couple of hundred metres south west of it.

 

[brad465]

Greenhithe became Greenhithe (for Bluewater) when the latter opened.
West Malling became West Malling (for Kings Hill) when the later town development came into being.

 

[DelW]

Ash has Ash Vale nearby;
Dorking has Dorking Deepdene and Dorking West nearby;
Farnborough has Farnborough North nearby.
In each case the "subsidiary" station(s) is/are on a different line
The names of several of these have varied over the years.

 

[Recessio]

East Grinstead used to have High Level and Low Level, until the High Level station was closed after Beeching and the Low Level became just East Grinstead.

 

[Sand_elf]

Alfreton was renamed Alfreton and Mansfield Parkway. When Mansfield station opened in the 90s it was renamed back to plain old Alfreton

 

[Rescars]

East Grinstead used to have High Level and Low Level, until the High Level station was closed after Beeching and the Low Level became just East Grinstead.

There are quite a few locations where names have been simplified where only one station now remains. Wolverhampton is no longer High Level now that Low Level is no more for example. Conversely "London" has been added at some stage to the names of most of the various London termini at some stage (London Bridge excepted of course). Understandably this addition has not been mirrored in the names on the Underground.

 

[Mat17]

Bradford Exchange and Barnsley Exchange, seem to both be Interchanges today.

Hull Paragon, seems to still be known as this. Lincoln Central is still referred to as Lincoln Central (Northern on board announcements for example).

 

[Rescars]

A long time go East Croydon was a joint station owned by the LBSC and the SER. When first added, what are now platforms 1 and 2 at East Croydon were named New Croydon. As a nominally different station, this enabled the LBSC to charge lower fares to (London!) Victoria than those agreed with the SER to London Bridge. A crafty move unlikely to promote warmth in a business relationship!

 

[John Webb]

St Albans at one time had three independent railway stations, owned by the London and NW Railway on the branch from Watford, the Great Northern station on the branch from Hatfield and finally the Midland Railway station on the 'London Extension' from Bedford to St Pancras.
At first it seems that public timetables differentiated between the three by adding (LNWR), (GNR) or (MR) as needed. The GNR station became known as 'London Road' due to it's proximity to the highway of that name and eventually closed to passengers in 1951.
There was no distinction between the LNWR station and the MR station until both came under the LMS following the 1923 grouping, when the LNWR terminus was labelled 'St Albans Abbey' and the MR station 'St Albans City'.

The latter, like the 'Elstree and Borehamwood' station up the line, was called just 'St. Albans' for a while after privatisation, but was renamed with the 'City' suffix after a senior TOC member had visited the preserved St Albans South box and seen our original BR 'Running-in' board with the 'City' on it!

 

[generalnerd]

I presume that distinctions such as Birmingham New Street and Birmingham Moor Street (or Curzon Street) are not in scope. Or Manchester London Road and Manchester Piccadilly?

Yeah those are different stations serving the same city, not different stations acting as the same station (in some ways anyway)

 

[Mcr Warrior]

I presume that distinctions such as Birmingham New Street and Birmingham Moor Street (or Curzon Street) are not in scope. Or Manchester London Road and Manchester Piccadilly?

Yeah those are different stations serving the same city, not different stations acting as the same station (in some ways anyway)

Eh? Manchester London Road is / was the very same station as Manchester Piccadilly, before its September 1960 name change.