Sevenoaks railway station [SEP] date of official opening
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Bat & Ball railway station


pub which no longer exists. A long lease of the Grade II listed station building was acquired by Sevenoaks Town Council in 2017 as part of a refurbishment project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Works began March 2018 with an anticipated opening date of January 2019. Bat & Ball station lies just to the north of Sevenoaks on the route from London to via . There is a shelter containing a bench on the northbound platform, and in 2014 new benches and a public information speaker were installed on the southbound platform (towards Sevenoaks
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Sevenoaks railway station


Sevenoaks railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line in England, serving the town of Sevenoaks, Kent. It is down the line from London Charing Cross and is situated between and stations. Trains calling at the station are operated by Southeastern and Thameslink. Trains from the station run northbound to London Bridge, Cannon Street, Waterloo East and Charing Cross via Orpington, or to Blackfriars via Swanley and Catford; and southbound to Ashford International and Ramsgate via Dover Priory, or Tunbridge Wells and Hastings. Sevenoaks railway station was opened
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Bat & Ball railway station


Bat & Ball railway station is located on Bat & Ball Road in Sevenoaks in Kent, England. It is measured from (although London-bound trains that call run to ). The station is managed by Southeastern, however, all train services that call are operated by Thameslink. The station opened in 1862 with the name "Sevenoaks". It was for a while named "Sevenoaks Bat & Ball", but was renamed in 1950 to its current name. The name derives from the Bat & Ball Inn, a
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Hildenborough


. The railway was late coming to Hildenborough: the South Eastern Railway did not open its direct line from London until 1 May 1868. The six-mile (ten-kilometre) gradient up to Sevenoaks takes its name from the village. The railway station was situated close to the existing houses at the time, which is now about one mile (one and a half kilometres) from the village centre. By the 1840s, the Parish of Tonbridge was approximately long and wide. A circular letter dated 26 September 1842 explained
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Sevenoaks railway accident


The Sevenoaks railway accident occurred on 24 August 1927 between Dunton Green railway station and Sevenoaks railway station. The Southern Railway's afternoon express from Cannon Street to Deal left London at 5pm, hauled by River Class tank engine No 800 "River Cray". Several passengers later recounted that from time to time the train seemed to roll excessively on fast curves. As it passed through Pollhill Tunnel at 60 mph the rocking became violent and the train derailed past Dunton Green railway station. Unfortunately, the line at that point is in
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Sevenoaks railway station


on 2 March 1868. It was formerly known as ""Tubs Hill"", after the adjacent area. There is a second station, on the branch to Swanley Junction, which opened on 2 June 1862. The station is named after the Bat & Ball local inn which is now closed, and serves the north end of the town. The two lines to Sevenoaks were electrified in January 1935. When the station was reconstructed in the 1970s a new ticket office was built replacing the old wooden S.E.R. building. The
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South Eastern main line


was to last until 1986. This "cut-off" line, in length, reached on 1 July 1865. This station was replaced with a new one further south which opened on 2 March 1868 when the line was extended to and . The line between Sevenoaks and Tunbridge opened to freight in February 1868, and passengers on 1 May 1868. Sevenoaks Tunnel took five years to build, from 1863–68, It is long. On opening, it was the fifth longest railway tunnel in the United Kingdom. This new line
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Otford


19th century, Otford was still part of the Hundred of Codsheath, albeit with a population of 798 in 1841. In 1882, Otford Station (see "Railway", below) opened for passenger traffic towards London and Sevenoaks. Otford included the settlement of Dunton Green until 1909, when it was split off into a separate parish. In 1924, the Otford Watermill, dating from 1541, burnt down. In the late 1940s, Otford Medical Practice was formed and is now located at Lennards Avenue. On 16 January 1975
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Chelsfield railway station


North Downs, was a difficult undertaking, with steep gradients. At Chelsfield the line is rising steadily on a 1 in 120 gradient through the Chelsfield Tunnel beyond the station. It is said that this was an inspiration to E. Nesbit when writing The Railway Children The modern station building dates from the 1970s when its predecessor was damaged by fire. The typical off-peak service from the station is two trains per hour southbound to Sevenoaks and two trains per hour northbound to London Charing Cross, calling at all stations to Hither Green
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Eynsford railway station


product of the Southern Railway concrete factory at Exmouth Junction. There is a small car park (charges apply) at the entrance to the station. The Swanley to Sevenoaks Bat & Ball line was opened on 2 June 1862, by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway, initially with just a single track. The station at Eynsford came into use the following month, with two platforms and a passing loop; the second track came in 1863. The main station building is on the "down" side, two storeys high
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Orpington railway station


platform 1/2 side (Crofton Road), the other on the platforms 5-8 side (Station Approach and the bus interchange). Access to platforms is via an underground subway (unsuitable for wheelchair users) or via a new bridge opened in 2008 which incorporates lift access to all platforms. The station was opened on 2 March 1868 by the South Eastern Railway (SER), when the SER opened its cut-off line between Chislehurst and Sevenoaks. Previously, trains between London and Tunbridge Wells had taken a circuitous route
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Sevenoaks railway station


Dunton Green and Sevenoaks. Thirteen people were killed and 20 were injured. The locomotives were withdrawn and rebuilt as tender locomotives. As of the August 2016 timetable off-peak services from this station from Monday to Friday are: There are two island platforms - 1 & 2, and 3 & 4. During the peak period there are fast direct services to London Cannon Street. The not-for-profit Sevenoaks Rail Travellers' Association (SRTA) corresponds and meets with Southeastern Railway, TfL, the DfT, MPs and
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Sevenoaks Senior College


Sevenoaks Senior College is a comprehensive public co-educational high day school, located in Cannington, southeast of Perth, Western Australia, close to the Cannington railway station. Opened in 2001, the school is a senior secondary campus which accepts Year 11 and Year 12 students from the Perth metropolitan region. The school is sited on the grounds of what was formerly Cannington Senior High School, which was built in 1965 and existed until 2000. The decision was made to close Cannington and open two new schools—Cannington Community College (
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Knockholt railway station


northbound to London Charing Cross, calling at all stations to Hither Green and then running fast to London Bridge. When the South Eastern Railway (SER) opened their "cut off" line through Orpington, Sevenoaks to Tonbridge in 1868, there was no station between Chelsfield and Dunton Green. A Knockholt Vestry meeting in March 1871 resolved to request the SER to build a station for Knockholt but this request was initially refused. Eventually, the SER agreed to provide a station if a £3,000 contribution was provided by "local parties
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Otford


registered for marriages in 1936, 1959 and 1981 respectively. Otford station is located in the village and has services northbound to central London via Bromley South to Victoria, Blackfriars and St Pancras and southbound to Ashford International via Maidstone East and to Sevenoaks. The railway station has a substantial, chargeable, car park. Some parts of north western Otford are closer to Dunton Green Station, which has services northbound to Charing Cross station and Cannon Street Station as well as to Sevenoaks. This railway station also has a chargeable car park.
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Riverhead, Kent


1997. There are two representatives on Sevenoaks District Council : There is also a parish council with nine members. Riverhead is close to Sevenoaks railway station, only mile from the village centre and is served by four main bus routes during weekdays (8, 401, 402, 452), all linking the village with Sevenoaks town and station, with about six buses an hour during the day. Buses from Riverhead also connect the village to St Johns Hill, Sevenoaks (8) (452), Oak Lane, Kippington (8)
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Sevenoaks


on 2 January 2009 and is supported by a strong network of volunteers. It became a not for profit charity in 2010. The multiplex cinema is open daily showing films. Around £550,000 has invested in equipment, infrastructure and the building since it re-opened. The demonym for a person from Sevenoaks is "Sennockian". The demonym "Old Sennockian" is used by alumni of Sevenoaks School. The local radio station for Sevenoaks is KMFM West Kent, although no local programmes are broadcast on the station due to it
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Knockholt railway station


in the Sevenoaks district in addition to Knockholt; Badgers Mount to the southeast, Well Hill northeast, and Halstead south. Within the Bromley borough Pratts Bottom is only west-southwest; and also Chelsfield (although having its own railway station, is in parts closer to Knockholt station) at about to the north and west. To avoid confusion with Halstead in Essex it was named after the next closest village. The typical off-peak service from the station is two trains per hour southbound to Sevenoaks and two trains per hour
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Redhill railway station


a new station called Reigate Town. Nevertheless, the London Brighton and South Coast Railway (the successor of the L&BR) continued to operate the omnibus service for its own passengers. The SER 'Redhill and Reigate' station was rebuilt and enlarged on the same site in August 1858 when it was renamed 'Redhill Junction'. The chronic congestion at the station was however eased after 1 May 1868 when Redhill ceased to be on the South Eastern Main Line to Dover following the opening of the 'Sevenoaks cut off' line between
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Transport in Kent


by connecting to the Mid-Kent Railway near Bromley, which connected to the West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway which gave it access to the Victoria Station & Pimlico Railway Company and its Victoria Station. It soon built extensions to Sevenoaks (Bat & Ball) (1862), Ashford via Maidstone (1862), and a second London terminus (Blackfriars leading on to Holborn Viaduct - 1864-65). The extensive competition saw the SER build a very expensive deviation via Orpington and Sevenoaks to avoid the lengthy and
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Charing railway station


throughout the 1960s. The station was opened on 1 July 1884, as part of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) extension to of the 1874 line to Maidstone, which itself was a branch off the LCDR's Sevenoaks branch of 1862, which joined the LCDR mainline of 1840 at Swanley. In the wake of 1955 British Rail Modernisation plan, the "Kent Coast Electrification" scheme saw the suburban electrification of the previous Southern Railway extended from Maidstone East through to Ashford. The goods yard comprised five sidings on
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Kakogawa Station


There are three island platforms with six tracks elevated. The station opened on December 23, 1888 when the Sanyō Railway extended from to . On April 1, 1913, Banshū Railway (now Kakogawa Line) opened its terminal named Kakogawachō, which was merged into Kakogawa Station later (the railway company's application was posted on the Official Gazette ("Kanpō") on May 14, 1915, but the actual date of the merger is unknown). The Banshū Railway also opened the line later named the Takasago Line originating from
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Lyttelton railway station


. The first train to Lyttelton was a freight consist headed by the provincial railways No. 3 locomotive, which ran through the tunnel to Lyttelton the week of 25 November, two weeks before the official opening of the tunnel and the station. The first passenger train arrived at Lyttelton on 9 December 1867, the date the station was officially opened. After opening, operations settled down to a schedule of three mixed return services for daily runs between Lyttelton and Christchurch. Passenger traffic on the preceding Ferrymead line had been very light,
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Sevenoaks


from Sevenoaks through Tonbridge and Pembury to Tunbridge Wells – was the first in Kent to be turnpiked, and others followed within the century. It became the A21 road in the 1920s; the road now bypasses the town, and also takes traffic to the M25 London Orbital motorway at Junction 5. The Dartford road is now the A225. The cross-country A25 road passes through the north of the town along the Vale of Holmesdale. There are two railway stations in Sevenoaks, and two on the outskirts. The principal station
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Sevenoaks railway station


, Southeastern, owned by Govia, took over management of the station as part of the new Integrated Kent Franchise. 7 June 1884 - A double-headed freight train ran into the rear of another freight train at Tub's Hill station. Both crew of the first train were killed. The signalman was charged with causing their deaths. The trains were being worked under the time interval system. 24 August 1927 - the Sevenoaks railway accident. River class tank locomotive No. 800 "River Cray" derailed at Shoreham Lane between
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2012 Summer Paralympics


be able to handle the Paralympics adequately. He feared that the end of the school summer holiday (which fell during the Games) would result in increased traffic, and that commuters might not heed traffic warnings or change their travel behaviour as they had during the Olympics. Sevenoaks railway station was designated as the preferred station for spectators travelling to watch the cycling at Brands Hatch. Organisers chose Sevenoaks over the closer Swanley railway station because of its "existing step-free access and excellent transport links", and because Swanley did not
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Holborn Viaduct railway station


A signal box to the south of the station, and a nearby bridge over Southwark Street, were destroyed by overnight bombing on 16–17 April 1941. A temporary replacement opened on 29 September, with a permanent arrangement opening on 9 October 1942. Following the war, services to Holborn Viaduct began to be withdrawn. The electrification of the Kent Coast route led to two basic services operating all day from the station: to Sevenoaks and West Croydon, with peak time services to a number of other destinations. The station was rebuilt between
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Romney Street


Romney Street is a hamlet in the civil parish of Shoreham, in the Sevenoaks District, in the English county of Kent. It is about 4 miles north east of the town of Sevenoaks and about 1.6 miles north of the large village of Kemsing. Nearby hamlets include East Hill, Woodlands, Knatts Valley, Maplescombe, Knockmill and Cotmans Ash. For transport there is the A20 road, the A225 road, the M20 motorway, the M26 motorway and the M25 motorway nearby. The nearest railway station is Otford railway station,
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Date Station


Date Station is served by the Tōhoku Main Line, and is located 281.9 kilometers from the official starting point of the line at Tokyo Station. Date Station has two opposed side platforms connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station is attended. The station opened on April 1, 1895, as . It was renamed Date on December 1, 1914. The current station building was completed in 1939. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April
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Darent Valley Path


The waymarked path Darent Valley Path is long, following the River Darent from the banks of the River Thames at Dartford through the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty to the Greensand Hills above Sevenoaks. It runs through the villages of Shoreham and Otford. The route is well served by public transport making it ideal to break into manageable walks. Train stations are situated at Sevenoaks, Bat & Ball (Sevenoaks), Otford, Eynsford, Farningham Road, Dunton green railway station & Dartford, and there are many bus
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Barlaston railway station


Barlaston railway station served the village of Barlaston in Staffordshire, England. This station was opened on 17 April 1848 and is on the first line opened by the North Staffordshire Railway on that date. Trains no longer stop at Barlaston. The to local service was withdrawn when the route was temporarily closed for major refurbishment on 23 May 2004 as part of the West Coast Main Line Modernisation scheme and never reinstated. Passengers are now served by bus service No 14 and 14X operated by D&G Bus, which acts as the station's official
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Dryhill


Dryhill is a small hamlet in the Sevenoaks District, in the county of Kent. It is about two miles away from the large town of Sevenoaks, located near the A25 road between Sevenoaks and Sundridge, Kent. For transport there is the Sevenoaks railway station and the A25 road, the M25 motorway, M20 motorway and the M26 motorway nearby. The Dryhill Local Nature Reserve based on an old ragstone quarry at the edge of the village covers some 20 hectares ( ). The quarry is also a Geological interest listed Site of
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Swanley railway station


into London's fare zone 8. The original location of the station was at at the junction with separate platforms for the main line and the Sevenoaks branch. It was first named Sevenoaks Junction and 1871 was changed to Swanley Junction. On 27 June 1937, there was a collision between two trains near the station, resulting in the deaths of four people and with 37 injured. In 1939 a new station called Swanley was constructed approximately further west and the original station was closed. The present station was rebuilt in 1959 when the
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Crofton Park railway station


Crofton Park is a station on the 'Catford Loop' to Sevenoaks route, between Nunhead and Catford. It is in Travelcard Zone 3. Crofton Park is in the historic centre of Brockley, in the London Borough of Lewisham and is measured from . The May 2018 Monday to Saturday off-peak service in trains per hour is: The station has an automated ticket machine on the overbridge; the station ticket office is open Mon - Fri 0640-1320. In 2007 the ticket office was closed at weekends; however recently
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London, Brighton and South Coast Railway


May 1868 when the route ceased to be on the South Eastern Main Line to Dover following the opening of the 'Sevenoaks cut off' line between St Johns and Tonbridge railway station. A ten-year agreement between the SER and the LB&SCR over the use of the station and lines to Coulsdon was signed 1 February 1869 and renewed ten years later. The collapse of the bankers Overend, Gurney and Company in 1866 and the financial crisis the following year brought the LB&SCR to the brink of bankruptcy. A special meeting of shareholders
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Banavie Pier railway station


transported to Banavie from Inverness. The official closure date for the passenger service was 4 September 1939 however the last train actually ran on 15 September. Freight services ceased on 6 August 1951. The first "Banavie Junction" was located on the West Highland Railway around one mile east of Fort William railway station and was opened on 1 June 1895 when the branch line to Banavie Pier was opened. When the Mallaig Extension Railway opened on 30 March 1901 the junction was renamed "Mallaig Junction" however a second 'new' "
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Brockley railway station


The connection of that line to Lewisham is a later development. The possibility of opening platforms on this line with direct access to Victoria Station and the Bexleyheath Line to Dartford has often been suggested, and a proposal to create a new Brockley Interchange station is included in the London Borough of Lewisham's 2019-2041 transport strategy, though with no funding as yet identified for the project . , on the to Sevenoaks line, and which also runs from Nunhead, is a mile to the south. Neither of these other lines has
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Charing


much enhanced service during the morning and evening peak periods. Charing railway station was opened on 1 July 1884, as part of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) extension to of the 1874 line to Maidstone, which itself was a branch off the LCDR's Sevenoaks branch of 1862, which joined the LCDR mainline of 1840 at Swanley. In the wake of 1955 British Rail Modernisation plan, the "Kent Coast Electrification" scheme saw the suburban electrification of the previous Southern Railway extended from Maidstone East through to Ashford
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Tarago railway station


Junction to Bungendore section was awarded to W S Topham & J Angus (tramway contractors) on 3 October 1882. The contract for construction of a station building, Station Master's residence, and goods shed is recorded as being let to G. & C. Horn on 17 December 1883 and Tarago as being officially opened on 3 January 1884. The exact date that the station building and other original buildings were completed is unclear, but it is likely that it was much later than the official opening of January 1884 - either that or
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Dunton Green railway station


station forecourt to a footpath leading west to Dunton Green. This subway remains in place today. The typical off-peak service from the station is two trains per hour southbound to Sevenoaks and two trains per hour northbound to London Charing Cross, calling at all stations to Hither Green and then running fast to London Bridge. The typical peak service from the station is one train per twenty minutes southbound to Sevenoaks also some services go through to Hastings (via Tunbridge Wells) and one train per twenty minutes northbound to London Cannon Street
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Peel Road railway station


reflect the fact that it was the railway's station closest to Peel, although it is also thought that the original title was derisory to the local inhabitants and the railway had received a number of requests to re-title the station. At one time there was a sharply curving siding off the running line which facilitated the collection of stone from the nearby quarry, but the opening and closure dates are unknown. The station was officially closed in and removed from all timetable literature after this point. Trains did however still stop at
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Alloa railway station


end of September 2006. It was originally projected that the station would reopen to passenger traffic in the Summer of 2007 but this date was then put back to allow for the upgrading of a level crossing. The official opening took place on Thursday, 15 May 2008. Passenger use of the new railway station has greatly exceeded forecasts and since re-opening the service has been improved by increasing evening and Sunday frequencies from two-hourly to hourly and by adding the peak hour service to Edinburgh in 2009. In its first year
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Kunming North railway station


. However, the service was terminated again in December 2017 due to the construction of Kunming Metro line 4. The Yunnan Railway Museum (云南铁路博物馆, "Yunnan Tielu Bowuguan") is adjacent to the station's tracks. As of 2012, most of the museum is closed due to the Kunming Metro construction and the replacement of the terminal building, but its historical railcar exhibit is still open. In Sep. 2014, the museum was completely reopened to the public. Historic railcars and locomotives are settled in a trainshed across from the
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Sundridge with Ide Hill


as the London Orbital Motorway passes through the parish which gives residents direct access into Central and Greater London by car. The nearest train station to the parish is Sevenoaks railway station which is around 4.7 miles east in the town of Sevenoaks. The station runs on the South Eastern Main Line which also provides easy access to London. Emmetts Garden is an Edwardian estate located in the parish. The estate “covers an area of about 4 acres at the highest point in Kent on the 600 foot sandstone ridge". On the estate
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Berlin Jannowitzbrücke station


Riedel" companies. When the Jannowitz Bridge was rebuilt (1881–1883), the suburban station of the same name was opened on the Berlin Stadtbahn (“city railway”) viaduct next to the Spree river. The opening date is officially stated to be 7 February 1882. Since the station was just an open platform with a canopy, passengers were exposed to the weather and the smoke of the locomotives. In 1885, the station was given its first weather protection in the form of a wall of glass, which was built
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Catford railway station


Catford railway station is one of two stations serving the London suburb of Catford. Mainly used by commuters, it is in Travelcard Zone 3 and is on the Catford Loop Line, between and . It is served mainly by Thameslink trains between , and Sevenoaks. Connections to London Victoria are available at Peckham Rye. Catford is measured from Victoria. It is adjacent to, and on a higher level than, Catford Bridge railway station on the Mid-Kent Line. The two stations are separated by the site of the former Catford
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Sevenoaks railway station


largest version of the Southern Region D70 type glass box station, this reconstruction was designed by regional architect Nigel Wikeley. Two additional side platforms were also abolished. Sevenoaks is part of the rail franchise which, post-privatisation, was served by Connex South Eastern. Subsequent to their 'sacking' in 2003 due to poor financial management (although their train operating performance had been very poor), services were operated by South Eastern Trains, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA). On 1 April 2006
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Narrandera railway station


important in demonstrating the course, or pattern, of cultural or natural history in New South Wales. The site is significant as a partly intact late Victorian railway complex with items dating from the opening of the station in 1881. Railway operations at Narrandera date back to the "Great Railway Years" in NSW in the late 19th century, with the station opening during the time of the earliest development of railway infrastructure in south western NSW in the 1880s. Narrandera Railway Precinct has historic significance for its connection to the NSW Government Railway
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Vale of Glamorgan Line


constituent part of the Great Western Railway in 1923, after the railway grouping and was known as the Vale of Glamorgan Railway. Local traffic on the line included that from the limestone quarries and the cement works at Aberthaw, and Rhoose at the eastern end of the line. Wartime traffic was created from Tremains and Brackla Hill at Bridgend and the RAF base at St. Athan. More recent developments were the opening of the Aberthaw power stations (Aberthaw "A" in October 1963 (official opening date) and Aberthaw "B"
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South Eastern Railway (England)


a result of the 1867 financial crisis. The SER therefore constructed the direct line via Sevenoaks to Tonbridge. It involved crossing the North Downs by summits and long tunnels at Knockholt and Sevenoaks. The latter was the longest tunnel in southern England at . This cut-off line, long, reached Chislehurst on 1 July 1865, but took three more years to reach Orpington and Sevenoaks (2 March 1868). The new main line opened on 1 May 1868 when the line reached Tonbridge. Construction of the main line provided the
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Nottingham Victoria railway station


Nottingham Joint St'n". In the 1898 Royal Atlas of England, the station is recorded as the "Grt Central & Grt Northern Joint Central Station" The Town Clerk resolved the situation by suggesting the name "Nottingham Victoria" to reflect the fact that the planned opening date coincided with Queen Victoria's birthday; this was readily accepted at a meeting of the Nottingham Joint Station Committee on 12 June. Nottingham Victoria station was officially opened without ceremony in the early hours of 24 May 1900 – over a year after the commencement of
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Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad


. The Bill got the Presidential assent and a Gazette notification was made on 6 Sep 2016, thus officially converting erstwhile Indian School of Mines into an Indian Institute of Technology. IIT is located in Dhanbad, the second most populated city in the state of Jharkhand. The institute is located 3 km from the Dhanbad Junction railway station, which lies on the Kolkata (Howrah) - Delhi railway line. IIT (ISM) has the following departments and centers: IIT (ISM) offers courses in engineering, pure sciences, management
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Pahiatua railway station


part of the project. It was expected that a new goods shed and loading shelter would be added in the future. The signals and communications equipment was housed in a separate building. This was one of the last wooden station buildings of its type erected by the Railways Department before it switched to more modern materials. Arrangements were made in January and February for the official opening ceremony, for which the dates of 10 March and 17 March were initially proposed. The Ways and Works Branch were requested to have the old station building
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Knockholt railway station


Knockholt railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line, located in the London Borough of Bromley, south-east London. It is down the line from London Charing Cross and is situated between and stations. It is in Travelcard Zone 6 and is located next to the Greater London boundary with the Kent district of Sevenoaks. The boundary is the farm bridge at the southern end of the platforms. The station is north-northeast of the village of Knockholt but closer to several other settlements. The station serves several small communities
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Black Island Platform railway station


Black Island Platform railway station, Blair Atholl, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, was located at an area known as the Black Island beside the River Garry. The station was used during WWII by forestry workers and was not open for use by the general public. Standing on the old Inverness and Perth Junction Railway route it lay 36 mi 16 chains (58.3 km) from Perth railway station. The station's date of opening date has not been ascertained however the CFC had also worked in Scotland during WWI and on the 1927
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Scropton railway station


Scropton railway station was a short-lived railway station in Derbyshire, England. The railway line between Uttoxeter and Burton-on-Trent was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) in 1848 and a station to serve the village of Scropton was opened at about the same time (the actual date is imprecise but the station was mentioned in timetables issued in 1849–50). The station remained open only for a short time before being closed at the beginning of 1866. After closure the station site was used for exchange sidings
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Birchfield Halt railway station


Birchfield Platform railway station, Birchfield Halt railway station or Birchfield Siding railway station served the rural area near Glen of Rothes House, Moray, Scotland from 1871 to 1956 on the Morayshire Railway. 1884 is another suggested opening date however it contradicts the map evidence. This was an intermediate station on the Craigellachie-Elgin line of the former Great North of Scotland Railway that had originally been opened by the Morayshire Railway on 1 January 1862. The station was opened circa 1871 as Birchfield Halt by the Great North of Scotland Railway. It
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Orpington railway station


via Redhill. The line was widened and the station rebuilt in 1904, expanding to six platforms. Third rail electrification reached Orpington in 1925, and extended to Sevenoaks in 1935. About this time the Southern Heights Light Railway was proposed, which would have diverged from the main line south of Orpington and finished at . Crofton Roman Villa was partly destroyed by a railway cutting in the late 1800s but was rediscovered in 1926 when work was carried out to the area to the west of the station entrance as an entrance to a new
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Hixon railway station


Hixon railway station is a disused railway station in Staffordshire, England. The railway line between Stone and Colwich was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) in 1849 A station was opened to serve the village of Hixon, the exact opening date of the station is not recorded but it first appeared in "Bradshaw's Railway Guide" in December 1864. Although the line was a busy route for the NSR for traffic to and from Birmingham and the south; the amount of local traffic carried was low and passenger services were
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Long Ashton railway station


. Quite when the station opened is uncertain – Butt's "Directory of Railway Stations" states that the station opened with the line in June 1841, but Quick's "Railway Passenger Stations" states it only opened in June 1852. Both sources agree that the station closed in January 1856, however other sources such as Oakley's "Somerset Railway Stations" contain no reference to Ashton at all. If the earlier date is correct, services would have originally been provided by the Great Western Railway on behalf of the Bristol &
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St Mary Cray railway station


St Mary Cray railway station is in St Mary Cray, South East London within the London Borough of Bromley. It is down the line from . The station and some trains that call are operated by Southeastern. It is in Travelcard Zone 6, and the station is managed by Southeastern. Services are provided by Southeastern, and Thameslink. The station has four platforms, platforms 1 and 3 being for services to Central London via Bromley South, platform 2 for services to Sevenoaks and Ashford International and platform 4 for services to Gillingham
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Pahiatua railway station


removed and the site tidied up prior to this time. The date of the ceremony was later moved to 31 March, and members of the public were invited to attend. Prime Minister Sir Keith Holyoake officially opened the station, with around 100 guests and members of the public in attendance. Special guests included Colonel W. R. Burge, son of Pahiatua's first stationmaster; past station masters, including J. Weston; W. W. Day, chairman of the Pahiatua County Council; T. M. Small, Deputy General Manager of the Railways;
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Wakefield Kirkgate railway station


Wakefield Kirkgate railway station is a railway station in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. Unlike the nearby Wakefield Westgate railway station, Kirkgate is unstaffed. The station is managed by Northern but also served by Grand Central. It is on the Hallam, Pontefract and Huddersfield lines. It has a limited number of services to London King's Cross. The original Kirkgate station opened by the Manchester and Leeds Railway in 1840 was the only station in Wakefield until Westgate was opened in 1867. The railway station building dates from 1854. Some
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South Brisbane railway station


South Brisbane railway station, was let to Henry Pears on 22 June 1891. It was the second masonry station to be erected in Brisbane after Roma Street railway station (opening 1875) and pre-dating Central railway station (opening in 1901) by a decade. Passenger services commenced on 21 December 1891, although the station building had not been completed. For this reason there was no accompanying opening ceremony. When the building opened shortly afterwards it included a temperance refreshment room, and served commuters on the South Coast, Cleveland
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Tonbridge railway station


renamed "Tonbridge" in July 1929. It was rebuilt in 1935, with the bay on the south side of the station converted to a through platform. This entailed the construction of a new section of bridge under the road outside the station. By May 1958, the brick station building fronting the main road had been rebuilt with a tiled facade. The Sevenoaks to Dover line via Tonbridge was electrified in 1961 when the Southern Region improved train frequencies and faster journey times were introduced under British Railways as part of the Kent Coast
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Strathaven Central railway station


wagons that were awaiting repair. The line had been intended as a through route between Lanarkshire and Ayrshire, however there was very little traffic along the route as the population in the area was very low. The other stations on the route were closed from September until November 1909 and then again from January 1917 until December 1922. As stated, the last train ran on 10 September 1939, however the official closing date was two weeks later. Strathaven Central station was also on the old Caledonian Railway line to Stonehouse that remained open
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Westerham railway station


Westerham railway station served the village of Westerham in Kent from 1881 until its closure in 1961. No railway was ever constructed all the way between Sevenoaks and Redhill to parallel what is now the A25 road and the Pilgrims' Way. Reasons for this may include: a) the Redhill to Tonbridge Line had been built quite early in railway history and served the settlements between Redhill and Godstone, b) the difficult choice between boggy land in the valley bottom and the gradients encountered on the A25 route at Limpsfield and Nutfield, c
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Milton Halt railway station


Milton Halt railway station is a former railway station that served the village of Milton in northern Oxfordshire, England. The station was built by the Great Western Railway. It opened to passengers on 1 January 1908 (Jenkins gives the date as 1 January 1906 but the Board of Trade plan on the same page is dated 14 November 1907 suggesting that the 1908 date given by other sources is correct). The Halt had a wooden platform and "pagoda" shelter. There was also a small corrugated iron shed, identified as "
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Trevarno railway station


of the line at that time. It also served the Trevarno estate gardens until circa 2011. The grand opening ceremony of Trevarno Station was officially held on 26 July 2010 however the station was not able to operate as it was not permitted to carry passengers on that date. Trevarno Station has a through and a bay platform with a single long siding. It has a station lamp but it no longer has a station building or car park. This is a now request stop and passenger access is by the Black Bridge reached via
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Marchington railway station


Marchington railway station was a railway station in Marchington, Staffordshire. It was on the Crewe to Derby Line. The station was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway. The opening date is unsure but the first record of the station in Bradshaw's is in February 1854 and from 1862 it was also served by Great Northern Railway on the route between Stafford and Grantham line. The station was closed by the British Transport Commission in 1958. The platforms are still in place today and the station masters cottage is now in private residence although
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Edinburgh–Bathgate line


the district was inadequate, and the large premises would require a considerable volume of general stores as well as coal. A private branch railway was opened to the public on 19 June 1905 from the E&BR line, authorised by the Edinburgh and District Lunacy Board Act, 30 July 1900. (The line may have been used before the official opening date in connection with construction of the hospital.) It was worked by the North British Railway, and there was an intermediate station at Dechmont, available to the general public, and
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Rail transport in Jamaica


of the economy. The railway station clerk was responsible for cancelling the stamps on correspondence with a date-stamp. Each station already had its own date-stamp (used to validate passenger railway tickets); this same date-stamp was used to cancel stamps on mail. Forty one railway stations are known to have cancelled mail though some of them handled very little mail. Inland mail to and from the Jamaica Government Railway could be sent postage free if it related to official business. From 1 September 1913 sorting carriages were
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Archer Park Rail Museum


of the Alexandra Railway Bridge, the Emu Park and Central Railway provided a unified rail link between the two halves of Rockhampton. The Archer Park station was not ready for the opening of the Junction Railway, and no official opening ceremony was held; however the station was opened for the use of the public from 11 December 1899. The official name Archer Park was adopted in October 1899, rather than Leichhardt Park, from which it was resumed. Being the central station for Rockhampton, Archer Park superseded the Stanley Street station not
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Andora railway station


Andora railway station () is a railway station serving the town of Andora, in Liguria, northwestern Italy. The station is located on the Genoa–Ventimiglia railway and was opened on December 11, 2016. The train services are operated by Trenitalia. The station was built to replace the former station Andora dating from 1872. The station was opened as part of an 18.8 km new double-track railway between Andora and San Lorenzo which operates largely through tunnels, rather than winding along the coast. The station is served by
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Zhangjiakou railway station (Opened in 1957)


Zhangjiakou railway station ( (Formerly known as Zhangjiakou South railway station () until February 2019) is a railway station of Jingbao Railway, Zhangji Railway and Jingzhang Intercity Railway located in Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China. The station was constructed in 1956 and officially opened in 1957. It belongs to the Beijing Railway Administration and the Beijing-Baotou Railway railway routes. The line is the future terminus of the Beijing–Zhangjiakou intercity railway, the Zhangjiakou–Hohhot high-speed railway and the Zhangjiakou–Datong High-Speed Railway.
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Hither Green railway station


Hither Green is a railway station located in Hither Green in the London Borough of Lewisham, south-east London. It is down the line from and is situated between and either or depending on the route. It is a busy commuter station with services to several London termini (Cannon Street, Charing Cross and London Bridge) and destinations to other parts of south-east London and the south-east of England (Orpington and Sevenoaks on the South Eastern Main Line, and Dartford and Gravesend on the Dartford Loop Line)
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Sint-Truiden railway station


Sint-Truiden railway station ( ) is a railway station in the town of Sint-Truiden, Limburg, Belgium. The station opened on 2 April 1838 and is located on line 21. The train services are operated by National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS). Sint-Truiden used to be located on 23 (Drieslinter-Tongeren). The current station dates from the 1970s and replaced a building dating from 1882 which was demolished in 1975. In 2005 the station and its surrounding area was modernised. Extra bike
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Jialuhe railway station


Jialuhe railway station () is a closed station on Zhengzhou–Kaifeng Intercity Railway. The station is located at the crossing of Zhengkai Avenue and Zhengxin Road, Zhengzhou, Henan, China. The station was originally named as Zhengxinlu Station (). It was changed to the current name prior to its opening along with the Zhengzhou–Kaifeng Intercity Railway in December 2014. On 10 January 2016, the station was closed due to lack of passengers. The re-opening date was not given. The station is an elevated train
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Hampton-in-Arden railway station


Hampton-in-Arden railway station serves the village of Hampton-in-Arden in the West Midlands of England. It is situated on the West Coast Main Line between Coventry and Birmingham. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by West Midlands Railway. The present station dates from 1884, when it was built by the London and North Western Railway (L&BR). It replaced an earlier station dating from the opening of the London and Birmingham Railway in 1837 which was located approximately further north-west
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Roodeschool railway station


Roodeschool is a railway station located in Roodeschool, Netherlands. The station was opened on 16 August 1893 and is located at the end of the Sauwerd–Roodeschool railway. The train services are operated by Arriva. For well over a century, Roodeschool was the northernmost station in the Netherlands, until 28 March 2018, when further along the line, the station Eemshaven was opened, slightly more north. At the same date, the old, head-end station, was closed and a new station for Roodeschool was opened,
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Railway stations not officially closed with no services in the United Kingdom


However, proposals have been made to reopen Wedgwood and/or Barlaston, but nothing has been confirmed and the future of the two stations is unknown. Norton Bridge railway station services were suspended in 2004. The station officially closed on 10 December 2017 to coincide with the new West Midland franchise, with the replacement bus carrying on to March 2019. Newhaven Marine railway station was closed in 2006 when the station was decided that it was "not safe for passengers". As for re-opening, no proposals to open the station has
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Orpington railway station


International or Tunbridge Wells and 4 by stopping services from Sevenoaks to Charing Cross or Cannon Street. Platform 5 hosts the Sevenoaks slows with platforms 6-8 being bay platforms used by services starting at Orpington towards Charing Cross, London Victoria, Cannon Street and Luton/Bedford. At the country end, the four tracks become two. At the London end there is a four-road sidings, where trains are stabled and cleaned. There are two entrances, both with ticket offices and ticket barriers, the main one on the
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Maryport and Carlisle Railway


engines" The 1912 statistics of the line included the following information: Note: the date of opening of the first portion of the railway to Arkleby, and of the passenger stations on it, are uncertain. A special directors' train ran on 15 July 1840 but Quick says that the safest date for public opening to passengers is Autumn 1840. Derwent line Bolton loop There were two private stations on the line, at Dovenby and at Crofton; A private railway station owned by a lady is a novelty even amongst such novelties
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Witney railway station (goods)


allocation when the new Witney station opened, was demolished during November 1905 after having been used for storage purposes. When the East Gloucestershire Railway opened an extension of the line in 1873, a new passenger station was constructed on a different site to the south, opening on 15 January 1873. This left the old station on a spur line, and it became the town's goods depot on the same date. The directors of the Witney Railway had first been opposed to the downgrading of their station but the Great Western Railway,
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Mount Victoria railway station


was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. The station opened on 6 September 1869. The Platform 2 building dates from 1869 with a railway refreshment room added in 1884. The Platform 1 building dates from 1911 when the line was duplicated. An extensive yard including a locomotive depot existed west of the station. Mount Victoria has always been an important railway centre since its opening in 1868. It was the first platform structure made of material other than timber built after Penrith station. The original station
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Loughor railway station


Loughor railway station was on the South Wales Railway, now the West Wales Line, from Swansea to . The station was located on the west side of Swansea in the residential area of Loughor. The railway line between and was opened on 11 October 1852 by the broad gauge South Wales Railway, which later became part of the Great Western Railway. The engineer of this line was Brunel. Originally, Loughor was the first station westwards from Landore; and were opened at later dates. The station was double track, with 2
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Penistone railway station


Penistone railway station is a railway station which serves the town of Penistone, in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. Train services are provided by Northern. The current station (at the junction of the Woodhead Line and Penistone Line) opened in 1874, replacing a station solely on the Woodhead Line dating from the line's opening by the Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway in 1845. The railway station currently only serves the Penistone Line. The line connects Huddersfield with Sheffield, via Barnsley
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Warmsworth railway station


Warmsworth railway station was a railway station to serve the village of Warmsworth, South Yorkshire, England and was on the Hull and Barnsley and Great Central Joint Railway. It was built ready for the opening of the line on 1 May 1916 with flanking platforms and facilities. However, although the line opened to goods traffic on that date, along with the other stations on the line it never opened for passengers. The only passenger trains to operate over the line were enthusiasts' specials, the last of these being the "Doncaster
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Thomas Delarue School


opened on 19 September 1963. On 9 June 1964, The Duke of Edinburgh visited the school to perform the official opening ceremony. Mr Davies retired in July 1964. In 1966, the school had 87 pupils. The next head teacher retired at the end of the Spring Term, 1967. His name was Mr Tudor. In 1979, a film was made about the school by members of Sevenoaks School. It was made to show the work of the Sevenoaks Voluntary Service and to give an insight into working with people with
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Coastal railway line, Israel


built. Over the years additional stations were built along the line, including Hadera West (1957), Haifa Hof HaCarmel (1999), Tel Aviv University (2000), Caesarea-Pardes Hanna (June 2001), Lev HaMifratz (Sep 2001) and Hutzot HaMifratz (Oct 2001). A new section that includes six new stations along the South Ayalon Highway and Highway 4 was constructed in the early 2000s and connected the Coastal Railway with Ashdod Ad Halom railway station of the Lod–Ashkelon railway. The first phase
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Rail transport in Vatican City


be ₤24 million. The station building (see below) was constructed between 1929 and 1933. The first locomotive entered the Vatican in March 1932. The station was opened officially on 2 October 1934. A Railway Convention was ratified between Italy and Vatican City on 12 September 1934, on which date the property passed from "Ferrovie dello Stato" (Italian State Railways) to the Holy See. In October 1934 the Ministry of Public Works gave the completed rail lines to Vatican City and Ferrovie dello Stato, respectively. "Legge
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Wronki railway station


Wronki railway station is a railway station serving the town of Wronki, in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland. The station opened in 1848 and is located on the Poznań–Szczecin railway. The train services are operated by PKP and Przewozy Regionalne. The station building dates from 1880 and has been a registered monument since 2002. In 2012 and 2013 2.6 million zł was spent on modernising the station, making it accessible for less able people. The modernised station was opened in November 2013. The station is served by the following
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Quedlinburg station


. The station was opened on 2 July 1862 with the railway line from Halberstadt to Thale. The entrance building and other buildings date from its opening. A number of industrial companies settled in the following years near the railway. In 1885, Quedlinburg became a small railway junction with the opening of the line to Gernrode and Ballenstedt. The railway line to Blankenburg was opened in 1908. The station had to be rebuilt to accommodate the additional trains. During the reconstruction, a new platform 1 West and a new water tower were
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White Bear railway station


White Bear railway station, on Station Road, Adlington, Lancashire, England, was on the Lancashire Union Railway line between St Helens and Blackburn. The station was named in some timetables as White Bear (Adlington) or White Bear for Adlington. The station opened on 1 December 1869 one month after the line that it was situated on, the Lancashire Union Railway from Boars Head Junction in Standish to Rawlinson Bridge, opened for goods traffic. Passenger services also opened on the same date at Boars Head Junction and at Red Rock
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Hangzhou East railway station


the site. It officially opened on 1 July 2013, in conjunction with the opening of the Hangzhou–Ningbo High-Speed Railway and Nanjing–Hangzhou Passenger Railway. The station also serves the Shanghai–Hangzhou Passenger Railway. It has 30 railway tracks, and stations for Hangzhou Metro lines 1 and 4. A coach station and bus terminals are also part of the new transit hub. Hangzhou East railway station is served by a station of the same name on Line 1 and Line 4 of Hangzhou Metro. This station offers
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Neunkirchen Hauptbahnhof


"Pfälzische Ludwigsbahn"). The first passenger trains ran daily from April 1851 to Ludwigshafen and back. The station itself was officially opened on 15 or 16 November 1852 together with the Neunkirchen–Saarbrücken line. Eight years later, on 25 May 1860, the double-track Rhine–Nahe Railway ("Rhein-Nahebahn") was completed to a new station building, the so-called "Nahebahnhof" ("Nahe station") built in its current location. The old station, dating from 1850, was
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Northallerton West railway station


Work started on the station's construction in October 2014, with the official opening taking place on 22 November 2014. The date also coincided with the restart of services from . The first train to arrive at the brand new station was a four-coach service hauled by HN Rail's Brush Type 4 Class 47 715 "Poseidon" in Fragonset livery. The station, along with that at , was closed in August 2016 following a collision between a train and a car at a level crossing near Yafforth. It is hoped to
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Christ's Hospital railway station


, although it was only infrequently used. On the opposite side of the station at the end of the Up main line platform was "North Box" (or "A Box"), which replaced a previous box known as "Stammerham Junction" dating from 1865, possibly at the same time as South Box was brought into use or even a few days earlier. The station opened on 28 April 1902, although the official ceremony took place on Thursday 1 May 1902. The station was initially known as "Christ's
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St Keyne Wishing Well Halt railway station


signs and other official documents by 1974: the return of the term came in 1978 for the opening of IBM Halt in Scotland and in the renaming of these two stations in 2008. The Liskeard and Looe Railway was opened on 27 December 1860 to carry goods traffic; passenger trains started on 11 September 1879. The railway in those days connected only with the Liskeard and Caradon Railway at Moorswater. The link from Coombe Junction to Liskeard railway station opened on 25 February 1901 and St Keyne station opened in October 1902. The single
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Swanley


3 interchange. The A2 is also north of the town. Swanley railway station serves the town with Southeastern and Thameslink services to London Victoria via Bromley South, London Blackfriars via Catford, Dover Priory via Chatham and Canterbury East, Canterbury West via Maidstone East and Ashford International as well as to Sevenoaks. Swanley is served by Transport for London and other routes. Swanley has had a town council since 1974, owning some 150 acres of parks and recreation areas. The town is also administered by Sevenoaks District and Kent County Council.
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