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Trivia: Stations on the "wrong" side of the bridge

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Many stations are named after a nearby bridge but sometimes the station is on the "wrong" side of the bridge. For example, in SW London "Barnes Bridge" station is in Barnes (correct) but Kew Bridge station is at the north end of Kew Road Bridge and is actually in Brentford. Similarly, on the District line Putney Bridge station is in Fulham not Putney. Are there any other examples?
 
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At least traditionally, Polsloe Bridge was in Whipton, not Polsloe, though the definition has a shifted a bit now (presumably because of the station and all the businesses just outside it calling themselves 'Polsloe' in response!). Though this might not be precisely what you're looking for because the bridge itself doesn't run between Polsloe and Whipton.
 

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Off on a slight tangent as it isn't a station, but Paddock viaduct in Huddersfield is occasionally misidentified as Lockwood viaduct due to Lockwood station being between the two. The real Lockwood viaduct is south of the station and crosses the valley of the River Holme. Paddock viaduct (aka Longroyd Bridge viaduct) is north of Lockwood station and crosses the River Colne.
 

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Not a "Bridge" station, but in the same vein...

Hampton Court is north of the River Thames, but Hampton Court Station is south of the river.
 

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There are special circumstances in both my "wrong" examples. The original (wooden) bridge between Fulham & Putney was called Fulham Bridge. It was replaced, at a slightly different location, by the current Putney Bridge. So we almost had Fulham Bridge station in Fulham. Although there have been other Kew Bridges between Kew & Brentford, the current bridge was opened (by Edward VII) as the Edward VII Bridge, so we could have had the Edward VII Bridge station in Brentford!
 

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Menai Bridge station was on the opposite side of the Menai Straits to the town of that name. Though that was physically the closest the railway came to it and actually only a short walk away across the road bridge.
 

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Rochester Bridge station was on the Strood side of the bridge

Llandysul station was on the other side of the river in Carmarthenshire

Welshpool is across the river from the town

Knighton station is on the wrong side of the river - this time in a different country!!

Carmarthen is across the river from the town

Builth Wells railway station was on the opposite side of the bridge to the town. The nearest existing one, Builth Road, is also on the opposite side of the bridge (but a fair distance further away)

Rhaydaer and Llandinam on the Mid-Wales railway were both on the opposite side of the bridge to the places they served.

Mallwyd on the Dinas Mawddwy branch

Llwyngwril, Talybont, Abererch on the Cambrian Coast

Dolgellau and Llangollen were/are both on the opposite bank of the river to the town centre (although parts of the town grew around them anyway)

Capel Bangor on the Vale of Rheidol (well, it was on the national network later than many of the places I just mentioned!)
 
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Dolgarrog, nice shiny brand new platform on the opposite side of the river to the village!
 

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At least traditionally, Polsloe Bridge was in Whipton, not Polsloe, though the definition has a shifted a bit now (presumably because of the station and all the businesses just outside it calling themselves 'Polsloe' in response!). Though this might not be precisely what you're looking for because the bridge itself doesn't run between Polsloe and Whipton.
So was Whipton Bridge Halt (closed 1928) in Whipton or Beacon Heath? Interestingly if you google map its location it says it's in Pinhoe,which it isn't!
 

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So was Whipton Bridge Halt (closed 1928) in Whipton or Beacon Heath? Interestingly if you google map its location it says it's in Pinhoe,which it isn't!
Hmmm, I would say given that Exhibition Fields are quite unambiguously in Whipton, Whipton Bridge Halt (disappointingly for the title of the thread!) probably falls on the right side of the line.
 

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Corbridge station is across the bridge from Corbridge.
 

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Tutbury and Hatton which was previously just Tutbury is the other side of the River Dove from Tutbury.

Acton Bridge station is the other side of Acton Bridge from the bridge that it's name after.
 

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Banbury (General) Station is on the other side of the River Cherwell from Banbury town centre (Oxfordshire) - it's actually in Grimsbury (which was in Northants until late Victorian times). Don't suppose that counts though..
Banbury (Merton Street) was even further into Grimsbury - until it was replaced eventually by a housing estate.
 

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Not strictly a 'bridge' issue but I've heard that the Great Western Railway would operate specials for Grand National racegoers from Paddington to Birkenhead Woodside (for ferry to Liverpool and then Liverpool Overhead Railway towards Aintree).
 

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Dartmouth station was built on the right side of the river, just that the railway was on the other side and permission for the bridge between the two was refused.
 

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To bend the rules of “bridge” (and perhaps station), Bridge Street station on the Glasgow subway isn’t actually on Bridge street. Its across the road from it, with its entrance on Eglington street
 

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Presumably the stations are named after the bridge, rather than the town the bridge is named after
 

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Not strictly a 'bridge' issue but I've heard that the Great Western Railway would operate specials for Grand National racegoers from Paddington to Birkenhead Woodside (for ferry to Liverpool and then Liverpool Overhead Railway towards Aintree).
Now we know where Ryanair got the idea from. Birkenhead (for Aintree).
 

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Exactly - hence both Kew Bridge and Barnes Bridge are perfectly sensible station names. As is Putney Bridge!

Putney Bridge station was originally Putney Bridge (Fulham), then became Putney Bridge and Hurlingham in 1902, and lost its suffix in 1932. It is at the end of Fulham High Street, in the original settlement of Fulham. What people now call Fulham is really Walham Green, which is what Fulham Broadway station was called until 1952. Walham Green and Hurlingham are place-names that have more or less disappeared from public consciousness, mainly because there now aren't stations of that name (or bus terminals: when Sands End, where Fulham power station used to be, became the terminus for the 371 bus, this revived an almost forgotten place-name).*

Kew Bridge could have been called New Brentford, as it is fairly close to that part of the town, or maybe East Brentford or Brentford East, or perhaps Strand on the Green, which is downstream a bit from the bridge. Barnes Bridge station is closer to the centre of Barnes than Barnes station, but I suspect that as it was on the Hounslow loop the LSWR felt that it would be best to keep the original station as simply Barnes, as it is on the main line, despite its being a fair old walk across the common from the centre.

* Apropos forgotten place-names, I intend to do a Trivia posting on places in London and the surrounding area which have become forgotten as they either never had a station named after them or don't have one any more. I need to do a bit more map-studying before I submit it.
 

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Malton station is actually in Norton-on-Derwent, the twin town on the other side of the river.
 

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As the station serving Gateshead, I have always regarded Newcastle as being on the wrong side of the bridge!
 

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Hope (Derbyshire) station is in the Civil Parish of Aston, on the 'wrong side' of the River Noe. (There is no 'River Hope' in the 'Hope Valley'. The ancient word 'Hope' refers to a valley on its own anyway.)
 
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