Great Malvern (GMV)

Great Malvern is a stop on the Cotswold Line in Malvern, Worcestershire between Malvern Link and Colwall. 

West Midlands Railway 196 003 departs for Hereford

Information
Type:	National Rail (Cotswold Line)
Station code:	GMV
Opened:	1860
Platforms:	2

The station was opened by the Worcester & Hereford Railway in 1860. However, the station buildings were not completed until 1862. Malvern was a popular Victorian spa town, the station had dock sidings for the carriages of the gentry [1], there was also a private siding for coal supplies to the adjacent Imperial Hotel. The station had an enclosed private passageway to the hotel known as the Worm though this is no longer open (the hotel is nowadays a school in any case).

The station had an ornate clock tower but it was lost in the post-war period [2]. The station's sidings have also now gone being lifted in the mid-1960s, a signalbox which controlled them was also removed though the splendid platform canopies have been restored. Access between the platforms is via a subway.

The station is served by West Midlands Railway (to and from Birmingham Snow Hill) and Great Western Railway (to and from London Paddington).

Station frontage

Restored canopy supports and a platform clock

Alternative station entrance

View down the platform

A GWR Class 800 stands at Great Malvern

[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Worcester to Hereford (Middleton Press, 2004) Map. XIX

[2] Ibid. Fig. 55

Dovey Junction / Cyffordd Dyfi (DVY)

Dovey Junction is a stop on the Cambrian Line on the Powys / Ceredigion border where the line splits towards Aberystwyth or Pwllheli. The station is between Machynllech and Borth or Penhelig.

Transport for Wales 158 830 arrives with an east bound service

Information
Type:	National Rail (Cambrian Line)
Station code:	DVY
Opened:	1863
Platforms:	2

The station was opened as Gandovey Junction in 1863 by the Cambrian Railway, it was renamed Dovey Junction in 1904, Dovey or Dyfi refers to the river next to the station. Nowadays the station is in the middle of the Dyfi National Nature Reserve. It is also close to the hamlet of Glandyfi which is where the station entrance, this is in Ceredigion a kilometre away from the platforms which are in Powys!

The original Cambrian Railway buildings were replaced in the 1970s by a new brick building [1], this has now been replaced by a bus shelter type structure. The station is managed by Transport for Wales, there is a service in both directions at least every two hours, hourly at peak times.

The nature reserve is around the station

Down the platform

Station entrance

Down both platforms

TfW 158 827 departs for Pwllheli

[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Machynlleth to Barmouth (Middleton Press, 2009) Fig. 15

Southchurch Drive North NET

Southchurch Drive North is a stop on the Nottingham Express Transit's Line 2 between Ruddington Lane and Rivergreen.

A Nottingham bound tram arrives

Information
Type:	Nottingham Express Transit Line 2
Opened:	2015
Platforms:	2

The tram stop was opened in 2015 as part of phase 2 of the Nottingham Express Transit. The trams run on street tracks on Southchurch Drive. the stop being located near the junction with Farnborough Road. The two tram platforms are either side of the tracks facing each other.

The stop is served by up to eight trams in each direction between Clifton South and Pheonix Park.

Clifton bound 211 arrives at the stop

The stop has the standard NET tram stop architecture

Heading off

Tufnell Park (ZTP)

Tufnell Park is a stop on the London Underground's Northern Line High Barnet branch in Islington, North London between Kentish Town and Archway.

Northern Line 51677 departs

Information
Type:	Transport for London (London Underground Northern Line High Barnet Branch)
Station code:	ZTP
Opened:	1907
Platforms:	2

The station was opened by the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway in 1907, later becoming part of the London Underground Northern Line. The station has a surface building designed by Leslie Green [1]. The station has lifts between surface and platform level as well as stairs, the station does not have escalators. 

The station was refurbished in 2004.

Station name written in the tiles

Surface building

Down the platform

[1] Jason Cross, London Underground Guide 2017 (Train Crazy, 2017) p. 162

Earlswood (West Midlands) (EMD)

Earlswood (sometimes referred to as Earlswood (West Midlands) to distinguish it from another Earlswood station in Surrey) is a stop on the Shakespeare Line (the modern name for the North Warwickshire Line) between Wythall and The Lakes.

West Midlands Railway 172 102 with a Stratford bound service

Information
Type:	National Rail (Shakespeare Line)
Station code:	EMD
Opened:	1908
Platforms:	2

The station was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1908 as Earlswood Lakes, in 1974 it changed name to just Earlswood (the next station along the line The Lakes is actually next to the lakes). The station is now on the border between Warwickshire and the West Midlands - most of the platforms are in the former and the Northern approach roads in the latter.

The station originally had a goods yard and a cattle dock though these were closed in 1964 [1]. A signalbox on the site was closed in 1981. The station once had brick buildings with canopies on both platforms but all of these have now gone to be replaced by a couple of bus shelters. The Station Master's house still exists but is now a private dwelling.

The station is served by West Midlands Railway and is on the boundary of the West Midlands PTE area.

WMR 172 213 arrives with a Birmingham bound service

The county boundary crosses the platforms more or less between the shelters

Platform shelter on the Stratford platform

A different design of shelter is on the Birmingham platform

WMR 172 339 arrives

[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Stratford-upon-Avon to Birmingham Moor Street (Middleton Press, 2006) map. XVII