Station Facts Journey Game

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Homerton once had much of its land owned by the Knights Templar of St John of Jerusalem.

 

[Springs Branch]

Hackney Central station serves what was the original Hackney village (before the Victorian building boom turned that part of London into a continuous built-up area).
According to some accounts, the settlement lent its name to licenced horse-drawn coaches available for hire, which eventually evolved into today's "Black Cab" Hackney Carriages.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dalston Kingsland was opened in 1983 on the same station site once occupied by the Kingsland station of the North London Railway that opened in 1850 and closed in 1865.

 

[fishquinn]

Canonbury holds the offices for Greenpeace

 

[Class172]

Our current Prime Minister Boris Johnson once lived just a stone's throw from Highbury & Islington.

 

[ainsworth74]

Caledonian Road & Barnsbury - This station is close to Pentonville prison which once played hose to famous footballer George Best for seven days following a case of drunk driving.

 

[fishquinn]

Camden Road is the nearest station to Camden Market and Lock

 

[transportphoto]

Kentish Town West - closed after a serious fire on 18 April 1971. Despite an announcement in 1976 that the station would not reopen, it was rebuilt and re-opened on 5 October 1981 under British Rail. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentish_Town_West_railway_station)

 

[A Challenge]

Gospel Oak station has a pair of goods line with no platform beside the current Platform 3 as the only direct rail connection to the line to Barking

 

[Class172]

A short walk from Hamstead Heath is the stately home of Kenwood House.

 

[OxtedL]

Finchley Road and Frognal is on Finchley Road which started its existence as one of the most important turnpike roads into London

 

[fishquinn]

West Hampstead is a jubilee line and Thameslink connection with three different stations

 

[ainsworth74]

Brondesbury - Many plans were advanced in the late 19th century and early 20th century to build a tube line down Edgeware Road, however no such scheme came to fruition and so Brondesbury remains a desert for London Underground stations.

 

[Snow1964]

Brondesbury Park was designed by Humphrey Repton as the landscaped gardens of a Manor House (long demolished)

 

[Springs Branch]

Kensal Rise station acquired its current name in 1890, having been known as Kensal Green* since the station opened on its current site in 1871.
The re-naming coincided with systematic development of housing on former farmland in Kensal Rise by the landlord of the area, All Souls' College, Oxford.

* Today's Kensal Green station on the Watford DC line into Euston opened much later, in 1916.

 

[Gloster]

Willesden Junction was not an original station on the West Coast Main Line, only being opened in 1866. It replaced a station called Holsden that was slightly further north.

 

[Snow1964]

Acton Central was originally called Acton. The station was later renamed as there are now 7 stations with Acton in the name.

Ac is olde English for oak, and tun an enclosure or farm, so literally means area surrounded by oak trees. However Acton is now just part of London, Acton became a borough 100 years ago, but is now part of the enlarged borough of Ealing.

 

[Springs Branch]

As mentioned above, Acton is known for having the largest number of railway stations in the district (presumably excepting "London") with variations on its name - East, West, Town etc etc.

Adding to the seven was the fictional Acton Green, which featured in an episode of TV series Minder ("Sorry pal, wrong number" - where one of Arthur's scams was based around three public phone boxes outside a local railway station).
The episode was filmed at South Acton.

 

[Snow1964]

Gunnersbury is named after an old manor, and located by the old west road out of London (now A4). At one time station had 5 platforms and a spur to Kew bridge station (the brick apartments towards river are curved to follow old railway).

It later gained an office tower block for IBM (International business machines), now used by BSI, along with some parking decks on site of closed platforms.

 

[Springs Branch]

Kew Gardens is a convenient station for visitors to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

In addition to its various botanical treasures, Kew Gardens is also the site of Europe's largest compost heap, which produces 3,500 tonnes of mulch per year for use in the gardens and for sale to the public. As well as woody, leafy and grassy waste generated in the gardens, the compost heap consumes 50 cubic metres per week of horse manure and stable bedding "donated" by the Royal Horse Artillery Barracks.

 

[Snow1964]

Richmond (the end of this journey), is a riverside town on the river Thames. There is a large green and formally was a royal palace between the Green and river.

North of the town is Old deer Park, and to the South, is Richmond Park which still has herds of deer, but no longer hunted by royal shooting parties.

 

[Snow1964]

Appears having reached previous journey end I have to choose.

Lets try the next route Harrogate to Matlock

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Harrogate is one of the noted spa towns of England.

 

[A Challenge]

Hornbeam Park is another station that serves the town of Harrogate, and is the newest station on the line to Leeds.

 

[Snow1964]

Pannel was once known as Rossett, and centuties ago was within Knaresborough Forest

 

[backontrack]

Weeton is the nearest railway station to the impressive Arthington Viaduct.

 

[backontrack]

In October 2020, Horsforth was named the most musical village in Britain as it was revealed that 22 home-grown acts were in the running for the charts with their latest singles.

 

[backontrack]

Headingley is the closest station to the home of Yorkshire County Cricket Club.

 

[backontrack]

Burley Park is often shown as the terminus of York-Harrogate-Leeds trains on the departure boards at York.