Trivia: Stations located uphill from city and town centres

[Tetchytyke]

Always seems a drag up Cheapside past the Midland Hotel. If yhou look on Street view the gradient shows up against the horizontal courses of the stonework.

You then go down the ramp back to the level you started at.
I’ve no idea if it’s now been blocked off, but you used to be able to avoid both ramps by going round the other side of the Midland Hotel.

I’m going to assume we’ve had Durham, Morpeth, and Berwick-upon-Tweed. Bishop Auckland is a hike up the hill too.

 

[D6130]

I’ve no idea if it’s now been blocked off, but you used to be able to avoid both ramps by going round the other side of the Midland Hotel.

Yes, you can still do that, but it's now a slightly longer way round than it once was.

 

[Jonny]

The main stations in Burnley (both Central and Manchester Road) require quite a walk up the hill from at least part of the town centre. It's over a decade since I was last thhere, but it checks out on Google Earth.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

St Albans City station is a bit of an oddity in that while lower than the city centre nevertheless one has to go uphill when walking from the centre to the station. The city centre is at about 116m and the station is at 102m - but Victoria Street which links the two dips down to about 97m between the two!

Batley is similar. The station is slightly higher (I think) than the main bit of the town centre, but to walk from by the town hall to the station you have to walk downhill along Hick Lane, then back up after crossing Bradford Road.

 

[Lewlew]

Leighton Buzzard.

You walk uphill from town but then also go back down as you go towards the station. You can walk a different way and it’ll be flat all the way.

 

[edwin_m]

To get from the former Uphill station to Uphill, you have to go both uphill and downhill.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

To get from the former Uphill station to Uphill, you have to go both uphill and downhill.

Upwey (a suburb of Weymouth) is "way up" a hill from the town, and iirc the station is slightly up hill from the de-facto centre of Upwey.