Roby is a stop on the Liverpool-Manchester Line on Merseyside between Broad Green and Huyton.
Northern 319 367 at Roby
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Type:
National Rail
(Liverpool-Manchester Line)
Station code:
ROB
Opened:
1830
Platforms:
4
The station was opened by the Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1830, and is one of the oldest railway stations in the world. It was opened as Roby Lane Gate, losing the two suffixes at a later date. The station has four platforms from early on though lost two of them (and the lines they supported) in the 1970s. The platforms and lines were reinstated when the Liverpool-Manchester Line was electrified in 2015.
The station has a staffed ticket office. Access between the platforms is via a subway. The station is managed by Northern on behalf of Merseytravel. There are usually four trains in each direction every hour between Liverpool Lime Street and Wigan North Western, Manchester Piccadilly or Manchester Airport. Some trains also go through to Blackpool North.
Subway
319 361 departs
Lifts which allow for step free access
View down the platform, main station building on the left
Nottingham is a major station on the Midlands Main Line and also the terminus of the Derwent Valley and Robin Hood Lines. It is the only survivor of what were once a number of stations in the city.
EMR 158 777 stands at the station
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Type:
National Rail (Midlands Main Line and others)
Station code:
NOT
Opened:
1848
Platforms:
7 (+2 NET tram)
Nottingham was opened by the Midlands Railway in 1848, though was not the city's first station (this being the now-closed Carrington Street station in 1839). Nottingham was rebuilt in 1904 to compete with the new station, Nottingham Victoria, which was built by the Great Central Railway. Much of the surviving station dates from that rebuild.
Nottingham was renamed Nottingham City [1] and then Nottingham Midland in the 1950s but the name was changed back to Nottingham when the other stations in the city were closed.
The station was redeveloped in the 2010s for £60 million. A new multi-storey carpark was built, as was a new passenger concourse and the station's original Grade II listed architecture restored. The station was also remodelled to add a seventh platform. In recent years the station has also become the hub of the expanding Nottingham NET tram network with a direct link to the tram stop added in 2015 [2].
XC 170 623 waits to depart
Footbridge linking the platforms
East Midland Railway and Cross Country are two of the companies which serve Nottingham
East Midland Trains HST stands at Nottingham
Cross Country Turbostar 170 108 at Nottingham
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Nottingham to Mansfield (Middleton Press, 2021) Fig. 1
The station was opened in 1869 by the South Eastern Railway as Waterloo Junction. The station was built to connect with London South Western Railway services at London Charing Cross. The station is adjacent to the much larger terminus London Waterloo, there was once a dedicated line between the two stations but this has been closed.
The station was renamed Waterloo Eastern [1] in 1935, the name changing to Waterloo East in 1977. In 1999 Southwark tube station on the Jubilee Line opened, the station has a direct connection with Waterloo East.
The station has an island and two other platforms which are numbered (or rather lettered) A-D to avoid confusion with London Waterloo's platforms. The station is managed by Southeastern Railway.
View down the platform
A Southeastern train arrives
Waiting rooms and facilities on the island platform
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Charing Cross to Orpington (Middleton Press, 1991) Fig. 11
Tamworth in Staffordshire is split into a high-level station on the Cross Country Route between Wilnecote and Burton-on-Trent, and a low-level station on the West Coast Main Line between Polesworth and Lichfield Trent Valley.
WMR 730 010 arrives at Tamworth on a test run along the WCML
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Type:
National Rail
(West Coast Main Line & Cross Country Route)
Station code:
TAM
Opened:
1839
Platforms:
4
The high-level part of the station came first, being opened by the Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway in 1839. The London & North Western Railway built platforms for it's Trent Valley Line in 1847 which ran underneath the earlier line. The new joint station was built and shared between the LNWR and Midland Railway [1].
This station was replaced by a modern design in 1962 [2], the Trent Valley Line (now part of the West Coast Main Line) was electrified at the same time. The high-level lines had to be raised to allow for the catenary.
The two parts of the station were officially named "high-level" and "low-level" in 1924, this naming convention remaining in place until 1971 [3]. Both levels of the station once had numerous sidings, freight yards and the high-level had a turntable. These have all now gone including the once busy Royal Mail facility that would handle hundreds of mailbags a night and required twenty postmen [4].
The station is managed by London North Western Railway.
A Cross Country service arrives at the high level part of the station
Platform shelter in LNWR colours
A freight roars through on the high level
A London bound Desiro stands on a low level platform
A Cross Country DMU waits on the high level platform
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Tamworth to Derby (Middleton Press, 2015) Fig. 1 [2] David Lawrence, British Rail Designed 1948-97 (Ian Allan, 2016) p. 83 [3] Vic Mitchell, Birmingham to Tamworth and Nuneaton (Middleton Press, 2014) Fig. 66 [4] Ibid. Fig. 70
The station was opened in 1851 by the South Wales Railway. The station later became part of the Great Western Railway. A station adjacent to Lydney, called Lydney Junction, was opened in 1875 by the Midland Railway and connected to Lydney via a very long footbridge that crossed over twelve sidings [1]. This station is now the terminus of the Dean Forest Railway.
Lydney and Lydney Junction were closely linked and shared freight sidings, they were formally merged in 1955 (as Lydney Junction). The original Lydney Junction closed in 1964, the GWR part of the station remained open and was renamed Lydney. Freight services were closed in 1968. The GWR Brunel style platform buildings [2] were lost in 1969.
The station remained open as an unstaffed station with platform shelters. It is nowadays managed by Transport for Wales. Access between the platforms is via the road and level crossing at the Wales end of the platforms.
TfW 150 227 arrives with a Gloucester bound service
View down the platform
Platform shelter
Level crossing
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Branch Lines Around Lydney (Middleton Press, 2008) Map. VIII
[2] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Gloucester to Cardiff (Middleton Press, 2005) Fig. 39
Dalston Junction is a stop on the London Overground East London Line between Canonbury and Haggerston.
Two London Overground 378s stand at Dalston Junction
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Type:
Transport for London (East London Line)
Station code:
DLJ
Opened:
1865 (Closed 1986)
Re-Opened:
2010
Platforms:
4
The original Dalston Junction was opened by the North London Railway in 1865 and was along the line from the now closed London terminus Broad Street [1]. Dalston Junction was closed in 1986 along with Broad Street.
The coming of the London Overground network and the new East London Line saw a completely new Dalston Junction station which opened in 2010. The station was built along with a new housing development and included a bus station to make it a major transport interchange [2].
At first Dalston Junction was a terminus for the East London Line for services from Canonbury but after a few months through services as far as Clapham Junction were initiated, however some services continue to terminate at the station. Dalston Junction is about 200m from Dalston Kingsland though there are no direct services between the stations.
Terminating trains
[1] Ben Pedroche, Do Not Alight Here (Capital History, 2011) p. 61 [2] John Glover, London's Overground (Ian Allan, 2012) p. 87
The station was opened by the London North Western Railway in 1860. The station was threatened with closure in 2004 but managed to survive with a reduced service. West of the station were extensive goods and carriage sidings. These closed in 1965 [1].
The station has a staffed ticket office. Access to the platforms from road level (the station is in a cutting) is via stairways. Each platform has a brick shelter. The station is managed by West Midlands Railway with a train per hour in each direction usually between Rugeley Trent Valley and Birmingham International.
One of the platform shelters
View from road level
View down the platform towards Birmingham
LNWR 350 239 arrives with a Birmingham bound service
View down the platform
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Rugby to Birmingham (Middleton Press, 2008) Fig. 111
Chinnor is the terminus of the preserved Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway. It was originally a stop on the Watlington & Princes Risborough Railway in Oxfordshire between Wainhill Crossing Halt and Kingston Crossing Halt.
The station was opened by the Watlington & Princes Risborough Railway in 1872, later becoming part of the Great Western Railway. The line was closed to passenger traffic in 1957, however it remained open for freight traffic until 1989 when it was finally closed [1]. The line was reopened by the CPRR in 1991.
The original station was demolished after the cessation of passenger traffic. The current station dates from 1994 and was a rebuild of the original building with a main difference being the layout of the chimneys [2]. The station is the headquarters of the railway and host to its storage sidings and yard.
The current Chinnor platform is the opposite side of the line to the original station so passengers need to cross the track, this allows for interesting views of trains at the station. Trains from Chinnor now run through to a platform at Princes Risborough.
Chinnor signal box
A GWR pannier tank locomotive (though in LU livery) at Chinnor
A Class 08 shunts in the yard
View down the platform
Platform view from the road bridge that crosses the line
[1] Brian J. Dickson, The Watlington Branch of the Great Western Railway (CPRR Association, 2014) p. 6 [2] Ibid. p. 30
Goodge Street is a stop on the London Underground's Northern Line (Charing Cross Branch) in Central London between Tottenham Court Road and Warren Street.
A Northern Line train heads off North
Information
Type:
Transport for London (Northern Line Charing Cross Branch)
Station code:
ZGS
Opened:
1907
Platforms:
2
The station was opened in 1907 by the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway as Tottenham Court Road [1]. The name was changed the following year after the opening of an interchange at the other Tottenham Court Road station. The station retains it's Leslie Green designed surface building. The station also retains lifts and not an escalator to facilitate travel between surface and platform level. There is also a 165 step staircase.
The station is now part of the Northern Line. In the 1960s the station appeared in a song by Donovon ("Sunny Goodge Street").
Stairs down to platform level
Platform view and tunnel
Corridore between the platforms
The station uses green tiles throughout
A train prepares to depart
[1] Jason Cross, London Underground Guide 2017 (Train Crazy, 2017) p. 126
