Railway stations with identical features...hehe.

[TrainfanBen]

(My first quiz, please let me know what you think!)

Name two or more (Network Rail) Railway stations that both/all share identical propertie(s). Explain why identical

I'm going to make it harder by adding the following:
Both/all railway stations have to be operational, and the identical feature must be PRESENT DAY.
No station name signs, or operator signage.
No Benches
Stations with identical platform configurations/same platform lengths. DONT COUNT
The object(s) cant change/or move
Signalling doesnt count.
Third rail/Overhead power supply dont count.

It might sound restrictive, but I'm going to test your knowledge!!!
To prove it can be done: Tile Hill station (coventry) and Canley (Coventry) have identical footbridges.

By the way: Please dont repeat stations.
Remember: dont break copyright if photos are used!

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Bit of a strange one, but New Hythe and Yalding, both with identical station buidlings, both became unstaffed on the same day: 4 September 1989, along with all the other currently unmanned station on the Strood-Paddock Wood line. Does that count?

 

[EM2]

Maidstone East and Maidstone West have identical track layouts with a third middle road between the two platform roads.
That (to me) doesn't count as a platform configuration

 

[TrainfanBen]

Maidstone East and Maidstone West have identical track layouts with a third middle road between the two platform roads.
That (to me) doesn't count as a platform configuration

I think that one is valid too.

 

[IanPooleTrains]

Okay then, i am going to pick Lichfield Trent Valley and Tamworth

Both have a curving layout, both have a high and a low level and both have a new car park

Maybe that might not do but let me know what you think!

 

[Hydro]

Deal and Sandwich both have signal boxes adjacent to level crossings at the country end of the down side of the stations. Not quite signalling as they're fixed permanent objects.

 

[EM2]

St Leonards Warrior Square, Hastings, Bangor and Chatham all have a tunnel at each end of the station.

 

[atomicdanny]

St Leonards Warrior Square and Chatham both have a tunnel at each end of the station.

As does Dover Priory and Tunbridge Wells!

 

[4SRKT]

Poppleton and Cattal are both at the end of short double track sections, with the line singling at the down end in both cases. They both have a level crossing and a signalbox at the down end as well.

 

[EM2]

Wanstead Park, Leytonstone High Road and Leyton Midland Road have side staircase access only from road level *up* to the platforms. I'm sure many others do too...

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Maidstone East and Maidstone West have identical track layouts with a third middle road between the two platform roads.
That (to me) doesn't count as a platform configuration

Begging your pardon, but the track layouts are not identical - the bay at East is still in use; the bay at West is, I am sure, lifted?

 

[EM2]

Begging your pardon, but the track layouts are not identical - the bay at East is still in use; the bay at West is, I am sure, lifted?

Last time I was at West, the bay was still in situ, although OOU. However, that was why I specifically didn't mention them originally

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Ah, if the track is still there then I think that's OK.

Do we have any forum members in the area who can peer through the dense undergrowth to check this for us?

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Ah, if the track is still there then I think that's OK.

Do we have any forum members in the area who can peer through the dense undergrowth to check this for us?

Quail says it a Down Bay Siding, not shown as out of use, however, I doubt it has been used for many years, much like the UM...

 

[Lampshade]

New Mills Newtown and Whaley Bridge have identical footbridges.

 

[Eng274]

Kirknewton, Kingsnowe and Grimsby Town are immediately adjacent to a level crossing

 

[bradders1983]

Kirknewton, Kingsnowe and Grimsby Town are immediately adjacent to a level crossing

Add to that Barnsley and Dodworth. Shaw & Crompton used to be before it closed last year for Metrolink conversion.

 

[Eng274]

Add to that Barnsley and Dodworth. Shaw & Crompton used to be before it closed last year for Metrolink conversion.

Bare Lane too! There's probably loads of them across the country.

 

[Lampshade]

And Furness Vale, Bamber Bridge, Woodsmoor...

 

[Scotty]

Sleaford too...

 

[imagination]

And Wokingham and Midgham (in the latter case you can't get from one platform to the other without using said level crossing)

 

[142094]

Whole load of them in Yorkshire - Streethouse and Adwick come to mind. Also Chathill in Northumberland, Hartlepool could count as well, Allens West...

 

[Eng274]

Both Edinburgh Waverley and Glasgow Queen Street have five passenger entrances

 

[12CSVT]

There's probably about 500 stations on the national network which consist of two platforms with waiting shelters a couple of ticket machines which are frequently vandalised.

 

[Railguy220]

Wylam and Hexham both have the same type of signal box.

 

[Wyvern]

Bare Lane too! There's probably loads of them across the country.

Many of the early small stations were halts next to road crossings. The crossing keeper sold tickets as well as looking after the crossing.

Examples are, or were, Attenborough, Coossington Gate, Stanton Gate, Shipley Gate. It made sense to have them where the road was anyway.

Afterthought
Stanton Gate and Shipley Gate may be to do with the former Royal Forest.

 

[deltic1989]

OK don't know if this will count but here goes. Lincoln Central and Nottingham, Both have flyovers carrying major routes into their respective city centres at the Eastern end of the station.

 

[Ivo]

London Bridge and London Victoria. Both were operated as two separate halves at a previous stage of their existence even though in the modern era all that separates these "halves" is effectively a wall.

 

[Wyvern]

That also applies to Birmingham New Street. At one time it was two stations separated by Queens Drive. Even now Midland line trains use platforms on one side and LNWR on the other.

It used to apply to Buxton until the Midland line and station were removed.