[TRIVIA] Stations closed Post Beeching!

[Parallel]

Rotherham Masborough?

 

[PHILIPE]

Cefn Onn

 

[thenorthern]

What do you class as closed as there have been many stations such as Drumgelloch and Bathgate which have closed by reopened on a different site.

 

[philthetube]

Earby and Thornton in Craven 1970

 

[Willerby Halt]

New Holland Pier?

 

[AndyHudds]

Altofts in West Yorkshire 1990.

 

[Ianno87]

Brocklesby

 

[mailbyrail]

Brocklesby
Bedford St Johns

 

[NoMorePacers]

Bedford St Johns

That was replaced by the current Bedford St Johns though.

 

[70014IronDuke]

You could include Blencow, Penruddock, Troutbeck, Threlkeld and Keswick on the Penrith-Keswick route and Goodrington Sands, Churston, Kingswear and Dartmouth on the Paignton-Kingswear route because neither route was listed for closure by Beeching.

That's a surprise! I didn't know that.

 

[swt_passenger]

Alnwick is a post Beeching closure of a branch and station not listed in the report.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Some people aren't reading the thread before posting...

 

[xydancer]

Weymouth Quay - closed in 1987, I think

 

[mlambeuk]

Backworth
Greatham
Grangetown
Rowntree Halt
Melton Halt
Boothferry park Halt

 

[RichJF]

Woodside & South Croydon Railway (1983): Selsdon, Spencer Rd Halt, Coombe Road, Woodside

Addiscombe (1997)
Coulsdon North (1983)

Tunbridge Wells West, Groombridge (as mentioned earlier; in 1985)

Closed in 1997 (now as Tramlink so not sure if in remit of OP post): Waddon Marsh, Beddington Lane, Mitcham, Morden Road, Merton Park,

 

[diffident]

Ah. I seem to remember a New St - Stourbridge train in the timetable. Must have been a parliamentary after they diverted the Stourbridge line trains to Snow Hill. They must have 'closed' the chord to passenger traffic too.

A fair few XC services still use the chord, as well as diversions when the Cross City is blocked for whatever reason. Gone over this route quite often on a Sunday when doing Gloucester - New Street.

 

[Llandudno]

Upton by Chester replaced by Bache
Garston replaced by Liverpool South Parkway
Black Rock Sands on the Cambrian?
Cheedale Halt near Chapel en le Frith opened on Sundays for a couple of summers?

I guess there may be some football ground halts like at the Baseball Ground, Derby?
Did any of the Butlins/Pontins parks have any stations, Filey, Talacre?

 

[duffield]

Lincoln St. Marks, 1985, services diverted by new chord into Lincoln Central

Edit: Whoops, already listed above.

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Cargo Fleet near Middlesbrough and Llangelynin on the Cambrian Coast.

 

[341o2]

Swanage and Corfe Castle because apparently not included in the Beeching report, closure proposed 1967, fought off and finally closed Jan 1972

Bridport branch on the basis of OP #3. Was included in Beeching report, initially refused owing to poor state of roads, closed 1976 (OP says post 1975)

 

[Cherry_Picker]

Ah. I seem to remember a New St - Stourbridge train in the timetable. Must have been a parliamentary after they diverted the Stourbridge line trains to Snow Hill. They must have 'closed' the chord to passenger traffic too.

It's still used by passenger trains. The first Birmingham-Cardiff of the day and the last Cardiff-Birmingham get routed via Smethwick West and Stourbridge, as does the final Voyager arriving into Birmingham from the West Country iirc. You'd need to be about at 0500 or 2300 to see them, but it keeps route knowledge up for whenever there are diversions .

 

[MadMac]

Alston.

 

[MadMac]

Upton by Chester replaced by Bache
Garston replaced by Liverpool South Parkway
Black Rock Sands on the Cambrian?
Cheedale Halt near Chapel en le Frith opened on Sundays for a couple of summers?

I guess there may be some football ground halts like at the Baseball Ground, Derby?
Did any of the Butlins/Pontins parks have any stations, Filey, Talacre?

Filey did - Ayr also, but that was a 1960s closure.

 

[Meole]

Gogarth Halt
Riverside branch stations on N Tyneside loop

 

[CapitalStar378]

Ignoring stations since reopened as part of the national rail network, replaced by trams, metros or new nearby stations or simply moved to a different site (including multiple stations replaced by single ones):
Alston (1976)
Liverpool Exchange (1977)
Houston (1983)
Bridge of Weir (1983)
Kilmacolm (1983)
Abertafol (1984, officially 1985)
Gogarth (1984, officially 1985)
Tunbridge Wells West (1985)
Groombridge (1985)
Errol (1985)
Lincoln St Marks (1985)
Balloch Pier (1986)
London Broad Street (1986)
Cefn Onn (1986)
Tiverton Junction (1986, functionally replaced by Tiverton Parkway but that is a couple of miles away so I've included it in the list)
Tilbury Riverside (1992)
Miles Platting (1995)
Watford West (1996, officially 2002)
Watford Stadium Halt (1996, officially 2003)
Croxley Green (1996, officially 2003)
Meadowbank Stadium (1998)
Leeds Whitehall (2002 - temp station)
Norton Bridge (2004, officially 2017)
Etruria (2005)
Newhaven Marine (effectively closed 2006)
Silvertown (2006)
Abercynon North (2008)
Workington North (2010 - temp station)
IBM (effectively closed 2018)

Cefn Onn was replaced by Lisvane & Thornhill a couple of hundred yards down the line

 

[Stuart-h]

Calvert on the bister to Bletchley line.
Swanbourn again on the bister to Bletchley line.
Would they count ??

 

[Journeyman]

What stations have closed after the Beeching cuts? After the last Beeching closures!

It would be interesting to define the last "Beeching closure". I think some would consider it to be Alton to Winchester in 1973, although closures had slowed to trickle by then.

 

[AY1975]

Probably 1975 onwards!

It depends whether you make the cut-off date the year that Beeching stepped down as BR Chairman, or the year by which all closures recommended by Beeching had been implemented apart from those lines and stations that were reprieved.

Personally I tend to regard anything from about 1970 onwards as post-Beeching, in which case you should also count lines such as the line via Louth, Lincs (1970), Taunton-Minehead (1971), Wareham-Swanage (1972), Penrith-Keswick (1972) and Maiden Newton-Bridport (1975).

Here's a few more that I don't think have been mentioned:

New Hadley (1985)
Eltham Park (1985)
Elsham (1993)
Attercliffe Road (1995)
Brightside (1995)
Dover Western Docks (1994)
Ditton (1995-ish IIRC)
Folkestone Harbour (effectively closed about 2000-ish, but still used by occasional charter trains until about 2010 IIRC)
North Woolwich (2006)

 

[scragend]

Pendleton.

Lost a lot of its trade when Salford Crescent opened in 1987. "Temporarily" closed in 1994 and then formally closed in 1998. Eventually demolished.

 

[Ken H]

Imagination said broad Street earlier in this thread
Didnt Dalston Junction close the same day 27 June 1986?
It did reopen 27 April 2010