Vicinity of Mainline Railway Stations in the same town.

[barney15c]

In my home town of Southend on Sea we have two mainline stations, Southend Victoria which serves the Fenchurch street Line and Southend Central which serves the Liverpool Street line. As the crow flies the distance between the 2 stations is about 400 yards. With the possible exception of London are there any towns / cities who have 2 stations on different lines that are any nearer than that.?

[dotty.]

Wigan North Western and Wigan Wallgate are probably about the same distance (as the crow flies)

[dotty.]

actually it's 100 yards, this is google maps standing in front of wallgate station and you can see north western just abit further down on the left
http://maps.google.co...official&hl=en&tab=wl

[New Judge]

And I think you've got it the wrong way round , barney.

Trains from Southend Victoria travel into Liverpool Street via Wickford, Shenfield and Stratford. Trains from Southend East and Southend Central (which usually originate from Shoeburyness) travel into Fenchurch Street via Benfleet, Basildon/Tilbury, and Barking.

[rowanwitch]

I can confirm New Judge is correct....

[dotty.]

the thread was about the close proximity of stations in one town thouigh, not about where the trains went, you can get anywhere in the UK pretty much from Wigan lol (except the village I live in)

[dzug2]

Can't think of anywhere closer than Wigan - except for a few stations that are actually two stations but named as one - Inverness, Retford and Lichfield Trent Valley are possibles

[barney15c]

Quite right Judge, i knew i got them the wrong way round just after i sent the question DOH!!!!

Wigan seems to be favourite, any other takers.

[dotty.]

Well it is only 2 mins walk from Wallgate to North Western, and that includes stopping at the little offy just before North Western for a kit kat

[dotty.]

BTW that Offy sells the most exotic bottles of spirits, they have all sorts of caribean rum, really different to your usual bargain booze.

[Cathyhuns]

If the two stations were any closer they probably would have been combined in the past. For example the Great Western and Southern lines into Basingstoke used to come into different stations which were very close. However they are now one station.

[Mosaic]

Manchester Victoria and Manchester Exchange were so close I believe you could walk internally between them. Exchange has been closed for years though so it doesn't count.

[SeaJayPea]

Glasgow Central and Glasgow Queen Street are pretty damned close to each other. By road it's about half a mile, same as Sarfend.

[Prudie]

Dorchester West and Dorchester South are only about 500 yds apart as the crow flies, so nearly. You can only get from one to the other on the train by going to Weymouth and changing which is at the end of the line for both.

[mushroom25]

the village of Tyndrum in the Highlands has 2 stations - Upper Tyndrum and Tyndrum Lower, which are a few hundred yards apart on each side of Strathfillan, on each of the 2 West Highland line branches (to Oban and Mallaig).

with a population of around 200, Tyndrum is the smallest UK settlement with 2 stations.

[boxtops]

There are 2 railway stations in Canterbury, serving different lines, but they are about 10 mins away from each other.

Kings Cross and St Pancras in London come immediately to mind - they are right next door to each other!

[jd_here]

Newark Northgate and Newark Castle must come pretty close to the top of the list

[mushroom25]

Dorking and Deepdene (Dorking) stations are close enough that through ticketing between the 2 routes is allowable.