Station Facts Journey Game

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cherry Tree was once under the jurisdiction of the Blackburn Poor Law Union.

 

[Springs Branch]

Mill Hill opened in 1884, almost forty years after the line itself, and was built to serve the western residential district of Blackburn and several nearby cotton mills.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blackburn has an Anglican cathedral.

 

[Gloster]

Rishton was the birthplace of George Tomlinson, Clement Attlee’s first Minister of Works.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Church and Oswaldwistle are both settlements that were once administered by the Hundred of Blackburn.

 

[Springs Branch]

Accrington Stanley, the local football club, has an unusual name derived from historical associations with the Stanley Working Men's Club (which was located on Stanley Street in the town).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Huncoat railway station is now situated on a different site to the the original station site.

 

[Springs Branch]

Hapton is a request stop.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rose Grove has a disused bay platform at each end of the station

 

[pdeaves]

Burnley Manchester Road carried, between circa 2012 and circa 2016, additional signs promoting 'UCFB College of Football Business'

(am I doing this right?)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hebden Bridge is a Grade II listed railway station.

 

[Springs Branch]

Mytholmroyd hosts an annual Christmas Market.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sowerby Bridge was also once served by a long-closed branch line.

 

[Springs Branch]

Halifax is also a minster town (the former parish church of St John the Baptist having been elevated to status of Halifax Minster as recently as 2009).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Low Moor is another station which when re-opened was on a different site to the original station site.

 

[A Challenge]

Bradford Interchange is the one of the two stations, both termini, in the centre of Bradford that has the more frequent service to London, operated by Grand Central.

 

[Gloster]

New Pudsey station appeared in a Monty Python sketch.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bramley once had a workhouse.

 

[Springs Branch]

Leeds has the largest number of platforms (numbered 0 to 17) of any station in England outside London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cross Gates was once served by a long-closed branch line.

 

[Springs Branch]

Garforth was opened in 1834 by the Leeds & Selby Railway, the first main-line railway in Yorkshire. At the time of opening, a masonry skew bridge was constructed carrying a turnpike over the railway at an oblique angle. As with the example at Rainhill on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, these pre-Victorian skew bridges were considered an engineering wonder at the time.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

East Garforth has the second-lowest DfT category rating of F1.

 

[Gloster]

Micklefield is where the railway crosses the traditional Great North Road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Church Fenton has a community shop run by volunteers from the village.

 

[backontrack]

Ulleskelf is the closest station to Tadcaster.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

York is a walled settlement.

 

[Gloster]

Malton station is in Norton-on-Derwent.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Seamer was once served by the now-closed Forge Valley branch line.

 

[A Challenge]

The seaside resort of Scarborough is now left with only one station and line out to Seamer, but used to have another line round the coast the other way to Whitby from Scarborough Lonsdale Road.

 

[A Challenge]

Not sure whether this will be as interesting, but I'll set the next journey as Shoeburyness to Richmond