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Trivia: Adjacent stations starting with adjacent letters

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The Airdrie to Bathgate line has four stations beginning with consecutive letters of the alphabet in a row, these being Armadale, Blackridge, Caldercruix and Drumgelloch.

Is this unique? Can it be beaten? I've not noticed it anywhere else. If you have, let me know. :) Give me your alphabetical lists.
 
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Interesting, I found another 4: Barry Docks, Cadoxton, Dinas Powys, Eastbrook
 

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Interesting, I found another 4: Barry Docks, Cadoxton, Dinas Powys, Eastbrook

Well done! Wonder if we can get 5 or more?

There's loads of pairs. Just found a 3 - Richmond, St. Margarets, Twickenham.
 
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Lee, Mottingham, New Eltham (3) [Sidcup] Albany Park, Bexley, Crayford, Dartford (4)
 

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The Airdrie to Bathgate line has four stations beginning with consecutive letters of the alphabet in a row, these being Armadale, Blackridge, Caldercruix and Drumgelloch.

Is this unique? Can it be beaten? I've not noticed it anywhere else. If you have, let me know. :) Give me your alphabetical lists.
Not what you asked for, but at the other end of the route you typically call at 4 Ds, then 2 Cs : Dalmuir, Dumbarton East, Dumbarton Central, Dalreoch, Cardross, Craigendoran.
The alternative is just DRAB. Dalreoch, Renton, Alexandria, Balloch.
 

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Not been active on here for year, so I am a bit rusty. I would like to throw in 5 consecutive stations that start with the same letter, and but for a closure would have been 6. Mills Hill, Moston, (Miles Platting), Manchester Victoria, Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester Piccadilly.
 

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Not been active on here for year, so I am a bit rusty. I would like to throw in 5 consecutive stations that start with the same letter, and but for a closure would have been 6. Mills Hill, Moston, (Miles Platting), Manchester Victoria, Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester Piccadilly.
And you could theoretically run a service that calls at those, Mauldeth Road then Manchester Airport, though that's probably becoming a little tenuous to count now.
 

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Only 2s from me: Chesterfield - Dronfield, Accrington - Blackburn, Accrington - Burnley Manchester Road, Bingley - Crossflatts, Adwick - Bentley (next stop Doncaster - close!), Rotherham Central - Swinton.
 

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Not been active on here for year, so I am a bit rusty. I would like to throw in 5 consecutive stations that start with the same letter, and but for a closure would have been 6. Mills Hill, Moston, (Miles Platting), Manchester Victoria, Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester Piccadilly.
You would have to pass through Deansgate though.
 

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Not been active on here for year, so I am a bit rusty. I would like to throw in 5 consecutive stations that start with the same letter, and but for a closure would have been 6. Mills Hill, Moston, (Miles Platting), Manchester Victoria, Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester Piccadilly.
An example using the same letter AND with a regular service was out of Waterloo (spoilt in the mid 60s by a renaming):
Walton, Weybridge, West Weybridge, West Byfleet, Woking, Worplesdon
 

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3 - Ravenscourt Park, Stamford Brook, Turnham Green. Plenty of 2 examples on the Tube
2 - Bath Spa - Chippenham

Not been active on here for year, so I am a bit rusty. I would like to throw in 5 consecutive stations that start with the same letter, and but for a closure would have been 6. Mills Hill, Moston, (Miles Platting), Manchester Victoria, Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester Piccadilly.

Pre Covid it was possible to sit on a single train and go through 10 consecutive stations beginning with H:
Hounslow East - Hounslow Central - Hounslow West - Hatton Cross - Heathrow Terminal 4 - Heathrow Terminals 2+3 - Hatton Cross - Hounslow West - Hounslow Central - Hounslow East.
 
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Chester-le-Street, Durham

Adderley Park, Birmingham New Street

Tutbury, Uttoxeter

Kidsgrove, Longport
 

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Bingley, Crossflatts

Stockton, Thornaby

Gargrave, Hellifield

Carlisle, Dalston
 

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Not quite what is being asked for, but there are three consecutive stations on the Wirral Line which begin with M and are in alphabetical order (Manor Road, Meols and Moreton) when travelling from West Kirby.

Another two similar to the above which I've just thought of:

When travelling towards Wigan from Manchester Victoria. Salford Central, Salford Crescent and Swinton.
When travelling towards Saltburn from Middlesbrough: Redcar British Steel, Redcar Central and Redcar East.
 
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Kirkstall Forge, Leeds
Berwick, Chathill - that is a strange one in that you can't actually make the journey these days.
 
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