Saturday 13th December 2025 Something a little different to conclude this year’s fortnightly series. I spent a couple of days this week visiting those London suburbs which are blessed with two stations located relatively close to each other but on completely different lines, offering a choice of destinations. Many of these have kindly been suggested... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 2nd December 2025 We're nearly at the end of this year's fortnightly series, but have no fear the 25th place to be featured in a couple of weeks is a rather special one and next year I'm extending the series to cover more two station places thanks to all the suggestions readers have kindly... Continue Reading →
Saturday 15th November 2025 Farnborough's another station pair I hadn't included in my original list for this series, thinking that with North Camp close to Farnborough Main and Farnborough North, it made for a town with three stations, rather than two. But then I was contacted a few weeks ago by the wonderful Mike Knott... Continue Reading →
Saturday 1st November 2025 Runcorn's two stations have very different pedigrees and present quite a contrast. The town's long standing main station, called Runcorn, opened way back in April 1869 whereas its youthful compatriot, Runcorn East, is a much more contemporary addition to the network, opening as recently as October 1983. The town of Rucorn... Continue Reading →
Saturday 18th October 2025 Wrexham is another place with two stations that initially didn’t make it on to my list of intended visits for this fortnightly series. Along with Colchester, which also has its main station slightly off-centre from the town's focal point coupled with a small one platform second station in the town centre,... Continue Reading →
Saturday 4th October 2025 Here's something a little different for this fortnightly series. A place which has two names with each enjoying the presence of two stations. As you can see from the map below, Epsom and neighbouring Ewell are one continuous urban sprawl in Surrey and famously resisted being included in Greater London on... Continue Reading →
Saturday 20th September 2025 Worcester Shrub Hill looking north I didn’t originally have Worcester on my list for this series by dint of the 2020 opening of Worcestershire Parkway making it a three station city. However, after lobbying from my Worcester based friend and former bus industry colleague, Iain Macbriar, who quite rightly pointed out... Continue Reading →
Saturday 6th September 2025 For this continuing fortnightly exploration of places with two stations I've visited Bicester in Oxfordshire famous for one of its two stations unusually being renamed from Bicester Town to Bicester Village in 2015 in recognition of the huge draw from the adjacent retail attraction of that name. One might normally assume... Continue Reading →
Saturday 23rd August 2025 Welcome to the western fringe of Kent for this latest review of a town with two stations, and another fairly small town too with Edenbridge containing around 10,000 population. Both Edenbridge's stations are run by Southern and both have an hourly off peak service with some additional journeys in the peaks.... Continue Reading →
Saturday 9th August 2025 The most conveniently sited of Gainsborough’s two railway stations is Gainsborough Central. As its name implies, it’s located right bang in the centre of town, next to a large shopping complex and massive Tesco and a short walk from the bus station. The only snag is the station sees just two... Continue Reading →
Saturday 26th July 2025 Welcome to another blog featuring the fourth station pair to be found within a town or city on precisely the same line of longitude but on completely different rail lines (see Canterbury, Yeovil and New Mills, previously featured in this fortnightly series) But, as you can see from the above map,... Continue Reading →
Saturday 12th July 2025 Today's blog features the two separate stations located closest together in this fortnightly series. They're in the south London suburb of Catford in the London Borough of Lewisham. Frankly, if it wasn’t for the fact they’re named differently and the railway lines don't connect, they could be marketed as one station,... Continue Reading →
Saturday 28th June 2025 The 36,000 residents of Falkirk are lucky to have enjoyed the choice of travelling by train to and from the town’s two railway stations for the past 175 years. It was back in 1850 the Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway opened its new Grahamston (Falkirk) station joining the town’s original station named... Continue Reading →
Saturday 14th June 2025 It’s the biggest contrast yet. One station at the end of a single track branch line with an hourly shuttle service with a 17 minute journey time and the other a four platform affair with two entrances/exits, two footbridges, lifts, 10 southbound trains and six northbound trains an hour including direct... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 27th May 2025 The following blogpost has been brought forward from its intended slot this Saturday as it describes the perfect place to reflect on the weekend's sad news...... So here I am in the tiny hamlet of Tyndrum in Stirling, exploring its two lovely stations: Tyndrum Lower on the line to Oban and... Continue Reading →
Saturday 17th May 2025 New Mills Central looking west towards Manchester Welcome to another town with a station pair located virtually on the same line of longitude (see also Canterbury and Yeovil, previously featured in this fortnightly series). We're in the Derbyshire town of New Mills visiting its stations known as New Mills Central and... Continue Reading →
Saturday 3rd May 2025 Unlike Wakefield (featured in March) and Yeovil (featured last time) Newark’s two stations have no connecting line between them and furthermore are famous for the two separate lines on which they’re located - East Coast Main Line for Newark Northgate and the Nottingham-Lincoln line for Newark Castle, crossing each other on... Continue Reading →
Sunday 20th April 2025 Yeovil Pen Mill I'm back on the fortnightly wander around places with two stations today and following my visit to Wakefield a month ago, here’s another pair of stations between which trains run in public service, albeit here in Yeovil, not very many. Yeovil Junction Timings of the limited number of... Continue Reading →
Saturday 5th April 2025 Situated in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport in Greater Manchester... ... the Ordnance Survey map gives the suburb of Reddish five named areas. North Reddish, Mid Reddish, Reddish Green, Reddish Vale and South Reddish. The first and last of these give their names to the area’s two railway stations - Reddish... Continue Reading →
Saturday 22nd March 2025 I first became familiar with Wakefield’s two railway stations, Westgate and Kirkgate, 50 years ago when embarking on my full time bus industry career in 1975 with the National Bus Company’s West Riding subsidiary based in the city. I recall arriving, carrying a heavy suitcase (no wheeled suitcases in those days),... Continue Reading →
Saturday 22nd February 2025 Neither of Dorchester's two railway stations are particularly busy when compared to the six stations featured so far in this fortnightly series (Hertford, Canterbury and Wigan) but Dorchester South, which arrived on the scene first, in 1847, beats its near neighbour, Dorchester West, by virtue of hosting South Western Railway's twice-an-hour... Continue Reading →
Saturday 8th February 2025 Wigan’s two stations are both located on Wallgate just 100 metres apart. Tessa Sanderson could easily throw a javelin from one entrance to the other (assuming no pedestrians were about for obvious Health & Safety issues). Wigan North Western came first, opening in 1838 as plain Wigan with a renaming to... Continue Reading →
Saturday 25th January 2025 Many thanks for all the positive feedback and comments about the first in this new fortnightly blog series featuring Hertford. I was enthralled to read the fascinating back stories and history about Hertford’s stations many of you kindly provided as well as making suggestions for future places to include as the... Continue Reading →
Saturday 11th January 2025 Welcome to a new blog series featuring towns and cities around Britain which, by a quirk of history, are blessed with having two railway stations on different lines serving completely different destinations. To kick things off I've been to Hertford and had a look at that town's contrasting pair of stations:... Continue Reading →
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