Trivia: Stations located uphill from city and town centres

[fgwrich]

St Ives

 

[Flange Squeal]

Bagshot in Surrey is an uphill walk/drive between the town centre and station, with trains from the Camberley direction actually passing over the top of town on a viaduct shortly beforehand.

 

[Mikey C]

Amersham is uphill from the original town

 

[MadMac]

Barrhill?

 

[xydancer]

Rugby Station is about a mile from the town centre and a steady climb most of the way

Sorry, but as someone who walks and cycles it regularly, I can assure you the station is definitely downhill from the town centre (a nice freewheel on the bike!). According to the Ordnance Survey, Rugby station entrance is 91 metres above sea level. The market square right in the town centre is 114 metres.

 

[AlbertBeale]

Putney - at the top of the High Street hill from the river; though there's more uphill beyond the station too - but that's less what I'd think of as "core Putney".

Many small Italian towns have both - a station where the line reaches the bottom of the town, and another one after the line has meandered uphill to get to the historic centre. (The former sometimes being also a through line while the latter is a terminal; but sometimes not, so it's interesting to consider why the edge station exists. Maybe that's all that could be built initially; maybe it's helpful for people on that side of town given how long the wind up to the top takes.)

 

[Cricketer8for9]

Given the historic centre of Croydon was by what’s now the Minster East Croydon is definitely uphill (you have to go up Church Hill). West Croydon was also uphill, though less so. Purley station is definitely higher than Purley High St, though most of the gain is to the platforms from the station entrance. That said Purley didn’t exist before the railway.

 

[greyman42]

knaresborough.

 

[Ken H]

Arnside
Maybe Lancaster.
Glossop
Dinting
Both Bradford stations.

 

[D6130]

knaresborough.

While Knaresborough station is considerably higher than the riverside area, it's a further climb up to the town centre (market square, castle, bus station, etc.), so I don't think it would really count.

 

[Western 52]

Swansea Station is higher than the city centre but not noticeably so.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Could be argued that each of Manchester Piccadilly, Manchester Oxford Road and Deansgate stations are located slightly uphill from the City Centre, raised, as they are, up at viaduct level.

 

[Cheshire Scot]

Could be argued that each of Manchester Piccadilly, Manchester Oxford Road and Deansgate stations are located slightly uphill from the City Centre, raised, as they are, up at viaduct level.

Although coming from e.g. Piccadilly Gardens the walk is slightly downhill towards Piccadilly then uphill on the approach to reach the concourse.
At both Piccadilly and Oxford Road the road drops significantly to go under the viaduct.

 

[Howardh]

Could be argued that each of Manchester Piccadilly, Manchester Oxford Road and Deansgate stations are located slightly uphill from the City Centre, raised, as they are, up at viaduct level.

Yes, I was going to add that myself, there's no way to walk downhill to Piccadilly or Oxford road, but I suppose you can walk level from Deansgate tram! But are they all artificially high, viaducts as you say, or is Oxford Road genuinely on slightly higher ground?

 

[Timmyd]

Brighton? (And a lot of other seaside stations come to think of it…..)

 

[Western 52]

Brighton? (And a lot of other seaside stations come to think of it…..)

Tenby station is certainly a lot higher than the beach!

 

[pdq]

Tenby station is certainly a lot higher than the beach!

But so is the town (ie cliff height).
Saundersfoot station is quite a climb up from the village, as well as being in Pentlepoir not Saundersfoot!

 

[Rescars]

Sadly no longer with us, but Gatehouse of Fleet station was, as has been noted before, 6 miles away from the town. Almost all the 6 miles were uphill.

Another extreme example is Bridgenorth. There is the funicular to save the climb!

 

[davetheguard]

If we're allowed closed railways, I can add Ilfracombe & Tavistock North, both former Southern Railway stations in Devon.

 

[birchesgreen]

Farnham and Dorking West

 

[steamybrian]

Crowborough station (located in Jarvis Brook) is about one and half miles continuous uphill to the town centre.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Would Whalley count as being uphill?

 

[CaptainHaddock]

Burnley Manchester Road is a bit of a climb from the town centre.

 

[Cornish Pasty]

Winchester?

Honiton

 

[randyrippley]

Lancaster
Oxenholme (uphill from Kendal)

 

[FuzzyDuck]

Basingstoke station used to be at the top of Station Hill before the late 60's town centre was built that elevated the approach to the station.

 

[D6130]

Calstock
Morpeth

 

[Cherry_Picker]

Birmingham Snow Hill.

 

[Traveller54]

Perth, Johnstone and Lochwinnoch, all gentle climbs from their centres.

 

[JD2168]

Worksop is slightly uphill from the Town Centre, it is now with the relocated bus station further away than it was when the buses terminated outside the Stagecoach depot.