A GWR service prepares to head to Worcester Shrub Hill
Information
Type:
National Rail
(Cotswold Line & Nottingham-Cardiff Line)
Station code:
WOP
Opened:
2020
Platforms:
3
The station is located near the Worcestershire village of Norton and is close to site of the former Norton Halt station on the Cotswold Line which closed in 1966 [1]. The new station has been planned for a number of years, offering interchange between two lines and having a lot more available parking than Worcester Shrub Hill. However, the final decision to go-ahead with the station was delayed a number of times.
Work finally began at the station site in 2017 with construction completed in late 2019, however the opening was delayed a couple more times until the station opened finally in February 23rd 2020.
The station is a mile to the South of Worcester and has spaces for five hundred cars. The station is managed by Great Western Railway and served by them and Cross Country.
Station view, the grey footbridge on the right allows a footpath to cross the line
A GWR 800 arrives on the Cotswold Line platform
Cross Country 170 398 prepares to depart
Station frontage
Platform view
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Moreton-on-Marsh to Worcester (Middleton Press, 2004) Fig. 90
Stockwell is one of the oldest tube stations on the London Underground, it is between Clapham North and Oval on the Northern Line and Vauxhall and Brixton on the Victoria Line.
Victoria Line train arrives
Information
Type:
Transport for London (Northern & Victoria Lines)
Station code:
ZSL
Opened:
1890
Platforms:
4
The station was opened in 1890 by the City & South London Railway as the Southern terminus of a line to King William Street. This was the first deep level underground or tube line to be built. The line was continued South in 1900. The station was rebuilt in 1924 with a new surface building designed by Charles Holden. The original lifts were replaced by escalators. The original island platform was also replaced by separate tunnels for each platform, these new platforms are slightly to the South of the original.
The station was rebuilt again in 1971 for the arrival of the Victoria Line. The surface building was replaced again and cross-platform interchanges added [1].
Stockwell's Victoria Line mosaic is a swan, after a local pub
A Northern Line train departs
Victoria Line platform
Between the platforms
[1] Jason Cross, London Underground Guide 2017 (Train Crazy, 2017) p. 158
Merseyrail 508 120 arrives with a New Brighton bound service
Information
Type:
National Rail
(Merseyrail Wirral Line, New Brighton Branch)
Station code:
WLV
Opened:
1907
Platforms:
2
The station was opened as Leasowe Road by the Wirral Railway in 1907. The line was electrified in 1938 by the LMS and through trains to Liverpool Central began. The station was rebuilt after the Second World War due to bomb damage to the original buildings.
The station is on an embankment with access between the platforms via the road at ground level. Access to the platforms is only via stairways. The station is a typical staffed Merseyrail station with with a booking office and information screens,
Beeston is a stop on the Midland Main Line in Nottinghamshire between Nottingham and Attenborough.
XC 170 397 departs for Nottingham
Information
Type:
National Rail
(Midland Main Line)
Station code:
BEE
Opened:
1839
Platforms:
2
The station was opened in 1839 by the Midland Counties Railway. The station was rebuilt and enlarged in 1847 including the current station building, the canopies were added in 1871. British Rail considered demolishing and rebuilding the station but these plans never came to fruition though the original platforms were replaced in 2004. The cattle dock and goods yard have gone.
At one end of the station used to be a level crossing and a lattice footbridge but these were replaced by a road bridge in 1969 [1]. This is also the means to transfer between the two platforms. The station is managed by East Midlands Railway.
Main building on the left, beyond is the road bridge
Main station building
Viewed from the road bridge, GBRf 66 784 prepares to head through the station
Platform side view of the main building
EMR 222 018 heads through Beeston
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Nottingham - Long Eaton - Derby (Middleton Press, 2020) Fig. 23
The station was opened as South Tottenham & Stamford Hill [1]in 1871 by the Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway. The station was renamed South Tottenham in 1949. For a time the station was the terminus for Midland Railway services until the opening of the Tottenham & Forest Gate Line.
The original station buildings were demolished in the 1970s. The station is on an embankment with a street level entrance. It has been managed by Transport for London since 2007.
Station entrance
Signal box
Station signage
View down the platform
A 710 prepares to go
[1] J.E. Connor, St. Pancras to Barking (Middleton Press, 2005) Fig. 68
