Narborough is a stop on the Birmingham to Peterborough Line near to Leicester. Like many stations Narborough was closed in the carnage of the 1960s but had a very quick reprieve.
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Type:
National Rail
(B'ham - Peterborough Line)
Station code:
NBR
Opened:
1864 (Closed 1968)
Re-opened:
1970
Platforms:
2
Narborough was opened in 1864 by the South Leicestershire Railway, within a few years it was part of the London & North Western Railway empire. Near to the station were a number of granite quarries, a branch line junction and exchange sidings being next to Narborough station. The quarries and finally the branch were closed by 1980 [1].
Narborough also had a couple of goods sidings but these were closed in 1966, the station closed completely in 1968 [2]. After support, including financial, from the local councils the station was re-opened in 1970. The station was refurbished in the early 2000s, the original station building remains though the ticket office is not always open and when the station is unstaffed the waiting room is locked.
Next to the station is a level crossing. A signal box still stands next to the crossing though is no longer in every day use. Although the station is managed by East Midlands Trains only Cross Country serve Narborough with a service usually every hour usually between Birmingham New Street and Leicester, but some also through to Stansted Airport.
A Freightliner trains heads through the station
A Leicester bound XC service stops at Narborough
Station entrance
XC 170 108 prepares to depart
Station sign
Footbridge, level crossing and signal box
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Coventry to Leicester (Middleton Press, 2017) Map. XXI [2] Ibid. Fig. 60
Embankment is a major interchange station on the London Underground on the North bank of the Thames near Trafalgar Square and inbetween London Charing Cross and London Waterloo.
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Type:
Transport for London
(Bakerloo, Circle,
District & Northern Lines)
Station code:
ZEK
Opened:
1870
Platforms:
6
The station was opened in 1870 by the District Railway as part of its extension from Westminster to Blackfriars [1]. The station was near to Charing Cross railway station and also named Charing Cross. The Baker Street & Waterloo Railway's (later Bakerloo Line) deep-level tube line reached the station in 1906. Although next to the District Railway station and with an interchange the Baker Street & Waterloo called their station Embankment (Charing Cross) [2].
The Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway (later the Northern Line) reached the station in 1914. To avoid confusion the entire station was renamed Charing Cross in 1915. The station was renamed Charing Cross Embankment in 1974 and finally to just Embankment in 1976. The Bakerloo/Northern Line station Strand/Trafalgar Square station to the North was renamed Charing Cross [3]!
Embankment is served by the Circle & DIstrict Lines on the sub-surface platforms and the Bakerloo & Northern Lines on the deep-level platforms. The station received a major refurbishment in 1988 with gloss white vitreous panelling in many areas of the station. LU commissioned the artist Robyn Denny to produce artwork to lighten up the station which resulted in the coloured streamer design [4].
An S Stock train departs on the sub-surface platforms
Northern Line 95ts 51646 arrives on a North bound service
This way to the Bakerloo Line
Sub-surface platforms
A Bakerloo Line train waits to depart
As does a District Line train
[1] Jason Cross, London Underground Guide 2017 (Train Crazy, 2017) p. 120 [2] Mike Horne, The Bakerloo Line (Capital Transport, 2001) p. 18 [3] Chris Nix, Hidden London Charing Cross (London Transport Museum, 2017) p. 5 [4] Paul Moss, London Underground (Haynes, 2014) p. 140
Attenborough is a stop on the Midland Main Line in Nottinghamshire between Long Eaton and Beeston.
Two EMT Class 158s at the station
The first station to be opened was Attenborough Gate by the Midland Counties Railway on it's line between Nottingham and Derby in 1856. This station only lasted a couple of years however and was replaced in 1864 by a station called Attenborough on the current site.
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Type:
National Rail
(Midland Main Line)
Station code:
ATB
Opened:
1856
Platforms:
2
The station was renamed Chilwell in 1937 but the LMS (who owned the station by then) reverted back to the original name after a couple of months following a petition by local residents.
Attenborough is an unstaffed station with a level crossing at the Derby end of the two platforms. Little of the original station now remains following rebuilding of the station in recent decades, nowadays the station has the usual collection of bus shelters and signage. Interchange between the platforms is via the level crossing or a footbridge. The station is managed by East Midlands Railway.
Two EMT Class 153s pass each other at Attenborough
View from the road crossing
EMT 153 382 at Attenborough, the footbridge can be seen in the background
