My Dad built a lovely 6 platform station in N Gauge. Elmsolner. Can you see where the name originated?
Pontefract has three and none on a main line since Cross Country trains stopped calling at Baghill in the eighties.
Never knew that! Are they still operational? I was reading the other day that they're thinking about reopening the Sheffield to Stocksbridge line, although I'm guessing that it's been out of use for so long that most of the stations will be difficult to get back up and running.
Yeah Tanshelf is on one of the two Leeds to Knottingley routes via Wakefield Kirkgate. Monkhill is a junction station where the Leeds Knottingley route via Castleford joins the Leeds to Knottingley via Wakefield Kirkgate. Also there is Baghill on the York to Sheffield line. Only three trains in each direction (six in total per day). A joke when it used to be Pontefract's main station.
A lot depends on how the lines pass through an area. Some have stations on two lines that run in opposite directions (Tamworth, Shotton), some are just before/after a junction (Meadowhall) and some have different lines in different places that don't intersect at all (London, Manchester, Liverpool)
Yeah, that’s what Newark is. Castle is actually in centre of Newark and has links to most of the rest of the country as it was built for the Midlands line, Northgate built about 30 years later is on the edge and is basically on the direct line from Scotland to London but was built originally for Peterborough to Doncaster line, although only 1/2 a mile away it would be impossible to join up.
Yep, I think that's the case in Newark. Northgate is on the main line to London, Castle is on a branch line. Apparently the main line was supposed to go through Lincoln, but was opposed by a wealthy local landowner so it got rerouted via Grantham.
Can’t believe I never knew there were two in Gainsborough, I’m genuinely shocked!! Every days a school day.
