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    Station association

    Despite the station name indicating otherwise, Chester Road station (on the same Cross City Line) is located closer to Wylde Green's shopping centre, The Lanes.
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    Station association

    Dover Priory is the southern terminus of the South Eastern Main Line, and is the main station serving the town of Dover; the other one is Kearsney on the Chatham Main Line.
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    Settlement Association

    St Luke's Church, Matfield, is a Grade II listed building dedicated to Luke the Evangelist. It was designed by the English architect and author Basil Champneys (1842 – 1935). Another "St Luke's Church" designed by him is his father's parish church, St Luke's, Kentish Town, between 1867 and 1870.
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    Station association

    Swale is on the Sheerness Line, which leaves the Chatham Main Line at Sittingbourne.
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    Settlement Association

    Stalybridge lies on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, which is an inland waterway running for just under 20 miles from near Aspley Basin in Huddersfield to the junction with the Ashton Canal at Whitelands Basin in Ashton-under-Lyne.
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    Station association

    The two platforms at Stocksfield are linked by a pre-grouping metal footbridge; there are similar bridges at Riding Mill and Wylam.
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    Settlement Association

    Due to its unspoilt beauty, sandy beaches and harbour facilitating sailing and yachting, Salcombe has one of the highest average property prices in the UK, soaring above Sandbanks, Poole in recent years.
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    Station association

    Carlisle is the westerly terminus of the Tyne Valley Line to Newcastle; Riding Mill is also one of the stations on this line.
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    Settlement Association

    One of the main landmarks in the village is Gilsland Spa, a hotel named from the sulphurous spring which issues from a cliff below the hotel. It has a sister hotel (they are both owned by the same organisation, Northern Powerhouse Developments) called The Esplanade, in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
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    Station association

    Two camping coaches were positioned here by the Scottish Region from 1960 to 1966; for some of the same time, Arrochar and Tarbet station also had a coach.
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    Settlement Association

    The villages of Westerdale and Halkirk both lie on the River Thurso.
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    Station association

    Clacton-on-Sea is one of the two eastern termini of the Sunshine Coast Line; the other one is Walton-on-the-Naze.
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    Station association

    Wigton is one of the mandatory stops on this part of the Cumbrian Coast Line, along with Maryport and Workington.
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    Settlement Association

    One of the two local schools in the village of Saughall was at one time called the Thomas Wedge Church of England Junior School. This was was built and endowed by Thomas Wedge of Sealand, Flintshire, at his own expense in 1852 as a gift to the people of Saughall and Sealand.
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    Station association

    The Dartford Rail Travellers' Association campaigns for improvements across the seven railway stations in the Dartford area, including Dartford, Stone Crossing, Greenhithe for Bluewater, Swanscombe, Ebbsfleet International, Longfield and Farningham Road.

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