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Abercynon North railway station

Abercynon North railway station was one of two railway stations - North and South - serving the village of Abercynon in the Cynon Valley, Wales.

Asher Hucklesby

The building of the proposed tramway in George Street had made it impossible for businesses along that road to load goods for the railway station but Hucklesby already owned Bond Street, which ran from George Street to Barber's Lane, giving him a private and direct link with the railway station.

Berlin Brandenburger Tor station

Berlin Brandenburger Tor (in German Bahnhof Berlin Brandenburger Tor) – formerly Berlin Unter den Linden – is an underground railway station in the central Mitte district of Berlin, Germany, located on the Unter den Linden boulevard near Hotel Adlon, Pariser Platz and Brandenburg Gate.

Bomaderry, New South Wales

Its railway station is the terminus of the South Coast railway line, which is part of the CityRail network.

Bray Daly railway station

Bray Daly railway station (Stáisiún Bhré / Uí Dhálaigh in Irish) is a station situated in Bray in County Wicklow, Ireland.

Cadeleigh

Between 1885 and 1963 Cadeleigh also had a railway station, although it was actually located much closer to the nearby village of Bickleigh (in fact, the railway station was named "Cadeleigh and Bickleigh" before 1906).

Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Kingswear

The Church of St Thomas of Canterburyis situated in the village of Kingswear in the English county of Devon, it stands in a slightly elevated position at the junction of Higher Street and Church Hill close to the railway station and the Dartmouth Lower Ferry and overlooks the River Dart.

Closeburn railway station

Closeburn railway station was a railway station in Dumfries and Galloway north of Dumfries, serving a rural community with Wallace Hall school and Closeburn Castle nearby.

Creswell and Welbeck railway station

Creswell and Welbeck railway station is a former railway station in the village of Creswell, north eastern Derbyshire, England.

Croftfoot railway station

Croftfoot railway station is a railway station that lies directly on the City of Glasgow / South Lanarkshire boundary (the western part in Glasgow and the eastern part being in South Lanarkshire) serving the Croftfoot area of the City of Glasgow and the Spittle area of the town of Rutherglen, Scotland.

Dore and Totley railway station

Dore and Totley railway station (named Dore railway station from 1971 until 2008) is a small, one platform railway halt near the Sheffield areas of Dore and Totley in South Yorkshire, England.

Drouin, Victoria

Throughout the 1880s, a number of small sawmills operated in the Drouin district, many transporting their timber by tramway to the railway station.

Easingwold railway station

Easingwold railway station is a closed timber built railway station that served the market town of Easingwold, in North Yorkshire, England and was on the Easingwold Railway.

Fairy Meadow, New South Wales

The area is served by a railway station on the South Coast line, which is part of the CityRail railway network.

Forest-East railway station

The Forest-East railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Forest in Brussels, Belgium.

Gare d'Épinay-sur-Seine

The Gare d'Épinay-sur-Seine (Épinay-sur-Seine station) is one of the two railway stations in the commune of Épinay-sur-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis department, France (the other being the Gare d'Épinay-Villetaneuse).

Gare d'Harfleur

Harfleur is a suburban railway station in Harfleur near Le Havre, France.

Gare de Balagny-Saint-Épin

The Gare de Balagny-Saint-Épin (Balagny-Saint-Épin station) is a railway station located in the commune of Balagny-sur-Thérain in the Oise department, France, it is also located near the settlement of Saint-Épin in the commune of Bury.

Gare de Cramoisy

The Gare de Cramoisy (Cramoisy station) is a railway station located in the commune of Cramoisy in the Oise department, France.

Gare de Famechon

The Gare de Famechon (Famechon station) is a railway station located in the commune of Famechon in the Somme department, France.

Gare de Longuerue-Vieux-Manoir

The Gare de Longuerue-Vieux-Manoir (Longuerue-Vieux-Manoir station) is a railway station located in the commune of Vieux-Manoir in the Seine-Maritime department, France, near Longuerue.

Gare de Namps-Quevauvillers

The Gare de Namps-Quevauvillers (Namps-Quevauvillers station) is a railway station located in the commune of Namps-Maisnil and near Quevauvillers, in the Somme department, France.

Gare de Rouen Martinville

Rouen Martainville or Gare du Nord was a large railway station serving the city of Rouen, in Normandy, northern France.

Gmunden Tramway

The tramway route runs entirely in the town, from the railway station to the central Franz-Josef-Platz on the Traunsee lake.

Grasellenbach

Buslines run to the railway stations in Heppenheim and Weinheim, which, just like Grasellenbach, belong to the Rhine-Neckar Transport Network (Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar).

Guckheim

Lying roughly 35 km east of Koblenz, halfway between the agglomerations of Frankfurt am Main and Cologne, Guckheim has at its disposal a good transport infrastructure with the new InterCityExpress stations in Montabaur and Limburg an der Lahn, the A 3 (CologneFrankfurt; interchange at Diez/Nentershausen) and Bundesstraßen 8 and 255, all found nearby.

Horschbach

It is 8 km by road to either of the two nearest railway stations at Altenglan and Wolfstein, the former on the Landstuhl–Kusel railway and the latter on the Lauter Valley Railway (Lautertalbahn).

Karaurgan

Karaurgan is a flag stop railway station near the village of Karaurgan in the Kars Province of Turkey.

Little Salkeld

Little Salkeld railway station on the Settle-Carlisle Railway and branch line to the Long Meg Mine were both closed in the 1970s, although the disused platforms still remain and the station building is well maintained as a private house.

Llanfaredd Halt railway station

Llanfaredd Halt railway station was an unstaffed railway station on the Mid Wales and Cambrian railway line (later the Great Western), between Builth Wells Station and Erwood railway station.

Moensberg railway station

The Moensberg railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Uccle in Brussels, Belgium.

Mommenheim

The nearest railway stations are each some 7 km away from Mommenheim: Nackenheim and Nierstein on the Mainz–Mannheim railway line, and Nieder-Olm on the Mainz–Alzey line.

München Hirschgarten station

München Hirschgarten is a Munich S-Bahn railway station on the main line between Laim and Donnersbergerbrücke railway stations at Friedenheimer Brücke.

München Isartal station

München Isartalbahnhof is a former railway station on the Isartalbahn in the Munich borough of Thalkirchen.

Northfield railway line

The line went east from the Gawler line and served three stations: Cavan, Pooraka, and Northfield.

Oxford Rewley Road railway station

Oxford Rewley Road railway station was a railway station serving the city of Oxford, England, located immediately to the north of what is now Frideswide Square on the site of the Saïd Business School, to the west of Rewley Road.

Pembrey and Burry Port railway station

Pembrey and Burry Port railway station is a railway station on the West Wales Line serving Pembrey and Burry Port, in Carmarthenshire, Wales.

Princess Marie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

The royal hearse brought the body from Noordeinde Palace to the railway station.

Ritschenhausen station

Ritschenhausen is a railway station situated in the Thuringian village of Ritschenhausen on the Neudietendorf–Ritschenhausen and the Schweinfurt–Meiningen lines.

Shawfair railway station

Shawfair railway station will be a newly planned station to be opened on the Waverley Line, a railway line to be reopened between Edinburgh and Tweedbank, just beyond Galashiels in Scotland.

Sherwood railway station, Brisbane

Sherwood (formerly Oxley West) is a railway station located in the Brisbane suburb of Sherwood, Queensland, Australia, on the Ipswich and Rosewood and Springfield lines.

Tampere–Pirkkala Airport

Terminal 1 is connected to the city by a Paunu city bus service (route 61), while Terminal 2 has a direct Ryanair-affiliated link to the railway station.

Thomastown, Victoria

Thomastown has a strip shopping centre in High Street parallel to the railway station, a shopping centre corner of Edgars Road and Main Street and shops on Settlement Road and Dalton Road, plus various shopping strips east of the train station.

Troisvierges

On 1 August 1914, German soldiers of the 69th Infantry Regiment disembarked at the town's railway station, violating the terms of Germany's use of the railways and hence violating Luxembourg's neutrality.

Union Mills railway station

The railway station at Union Mills on the Isle of Man Railway was the first official stop for trains on the line; it boasted a long winding platform on the "up" side and the station gardens were well known locally for their beautiful displays that were tended by the station master and his staff.

Waltham Cross railway station

Waltham Cross railway station, opened in 1840, is a railway station that serves Waltham Cross in Hertfordshire, England.

Whistler railway station

Two trains call at the station, the Rainforest to Gold Rush provides service from Whistler Station to Quesnel railway station and Jasper railway station.


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Au Départ

In 1847, a shop trading under Au Départ selling luggage and travel goods shop opened at 7 boulevard Denain in Paris, opposite the Gare du Nord, a railway station inaugurated the year before on 14 June 1846.

Bhojudih railway station

Bhojudih is a railway station on the Adra-Netaji SC Bose Gomoh branch line, just south of the Damodar and links to Sudamdih, north of the Damodar, and on the Jharia Coalfield rail network.

Burslem railway station

Burslem railway station was a station on the Potteries Loop Line that served the town of Burslem, Staffordshire.

Chaoyang Railway Station

Chaoyang Railway Station is a railway station located in Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China, on the Xiashen Railway which operated by Shanghai Railway Bureau, Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Cheb–Hranice v Čechách railway

Railway stats from the main railway station of Cheb and runs through Františkovy Lázně Aquaforum, Františkovy Lázně pályaudvar, Vojtanov és Hazlov before arriving to , where there are Aš – hlavní nádraží (Aš railway station), and Aš-město (Aš city) stations.

Cheshunt railway station

Cheshunt railway station serves the town of Cheshunt in Hertfordshire, England.

Chexi Railway Station

Chexi Station is a railway station located in Hubei Province, People's Republic of China, on the Yiwan Railway which operated by Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Coombe Junction Halt railway station

Coombe Junction Halt railway station serves the villages of Coombe and Lamellion near Liskeard, Cornwall, United Kingdom.

Delta station

The main railway station, located within the same complex, encompasses two platforms and is served by the suburban services of NMBS/SNCB line 26 linking Vilvoorde with Halle via Etterbeek.

Dhananjay Mahato

During the tenure of then Chief Minister of Bihar Jagannath Mishra, he built the Gunda Bihar Railway Station.

Dingee railway station

Dingee Railway Station is an unmanned operational V/Line train station situated on the Bendigo-Swan Hill Line in the town of Dingee, 200 km north of Melbourne, Australia and 50 km north of Bendigo.

Elizabeth Street, Sydney

Central Railway: designed by Walter Liberty Vernon, Central Railway has been described as the grandest railway station in Australia.

Firhill Stadium

Maryhill railway station, which is served by trains from Glasgow Queen Street, is the closest railway station to Firhill.

Gare de Pierrelaye

Pierrelaye is a railway station in the town of Pierrelaye, a northwestern suburb of Paris, France.

Gare of Lille-Saint-Sauveur

Ten years after the opening of the first railway station of Lille, Lille-Flandres station in 1848, the city annexed the neighboring towns of Moulins, Wazemmes, Fives, and Esquermes.

Hanjiang Railway Station

Hanjiang Railway Station is a railway station located in Fujian Province, People's Republic of China, on the Fuxia Railway which operated by Shanghai Railway Bureau, Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Heckington

The £2.5 million 2.8 mile-long village bypass, built by Reed & Mallik Ltd of Salisbury, was opened by Lynda Chalker on 14 December 1982, and the former route of the A17 is now the B1394, which also leads to Billingborough via Great Hale across a level crossing over the partially single-track railway near the railway station.

Hutzot HaMifratz Railway Station

Hutzot HaMifratz Railway Station is a station on both the main North-South coastal line of Israel Railways (Nahariya – Haifa – Tel AvivBen-Gurion AirportBe'er Sheva Inter-City Service) and the suburban line serving Haifa's northern suburbs – The Qrayot (Haifa - Qiryat Motzkin Suburban Service), although only a third of all the Inter-City trains actually stop at the station.

Jean-Pierre Brisset

He became stationmaster at the railway station of Angers, and later of L'Aigle.

Kuitan Railway Station

Kueitan Railway Station is a railway station located in Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China, on the Xiashen Railway which operated by Shanghai Railway Bureau, Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Lahat railway station

The Lahat railway station is a Malaysian train station stationed at the north eastern side of and named after the town of Lahat, Perak.

Lansky

Lanskaya electric substation, an electric substation of Lanskaya railway station

Maçanet-Massanes railway station

Maçanet-Massanes (formerly Empalme) is a railway station propierty of adif (Spanish public company) and located in the municipality of Maçanet de la Selva (Selva, Catalonia), far from downtown.

Menthorpe Gate railway station

Menthorpe Gate railway station was a station on the Selby to Driffield Line in North Yorkshire, England serving the village of North Duffield and the hamlet of Menthorpe.

MG Road, Thiruvananthapuram

Its southern beginning point is at Overbridge Junction near Central Railway Station and ends at LMS Junction, near Palayam in the north.

Miluo East Railway Station

The Miluo East Railway Station is a railway station located in Hunan, China.

MM1

Melbourne Metro, Stage 1 a proposed rail tunnel in Melbourne, Australia linking the Domain Interchange to North Melbourne railway station

Norton le Moors

The closest railway station to Norton le Moors is Longport railway station which is approximately 2.5miles west from the centre of Norton le Moors.

Panvel railway station

Panvel Junction is an important railway station on the Harbour Line and CST - Diva - Panvel - Somtane route of the Central Line.

Port-Daniel railway station

The Port-Daniel railway station is a staffed Via Rail station on Route 132 in Port-Daniel–Gascons, Quebec, Canada.

Rail transport in Monaco

The Principality of Monaco has a single railway station (Monaco-Monte Carlo) on the Marseille–Ventimiglia railway line.

Raunheim station

Raunheim station is a railway station in the town of Raunheim in the German state of Hesse on the Main Railway from Mainz to Frankfurt am Main.

Reggio Emilia railway station

Reggio Emilia railway station is situated at Piazza Guglielmo Marconi, at the eastern edge of the city centre.

Sawbridgeworth railway station

Sawbridgeworth railway station serves the town of Sawbridgeworth in Hertfordshire, England.

Shapu Railway Station

Shapu (formerly Baishi) is a railway station in the village of Shapu in Zengcheng, Guangdong, China.

Shigeno

Shigeno Station, railway station of Shinano Railway Line in Tōmi City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Shizhu Railway Station

Shizhu Railway Station is a railway station currently being built in Chongqing City, People's Republic of China, on the Yuli Railway operated by the Ministry of Railways of the PRC.

Skovorodino

Skovorodino railway station, a railway station on the Baikal-Amur Mainline in the town of Skovorodino in Amur Oblast, Russia

Spital railway station

Spital railway station, on the former main line from Birkenhead Woodside to London Paddington, is situated near Bebington on the Wirral Peninsula, England in the small suburb of Spital.

SPTR

Silapathar railway station, in the Indian Railways code system

Suizhong North Railway Station

Suizhong North Railway Station is a railway station of Qinshen Passenger Railway, located in Suizhong Town, Suizhong County, China.

Süngütaşı railway station

The Süngütaşı Railway Station is a railway station in the village of Süngütaşı in the Kars Province of Turkey.

The Throwback

The house has no electricity or modern appliances, and is located miles from the nearest town of Black Pockrington and the nearest railway station of Hexham, and thanks to a clause in her new husband's will although she will inherit everything after he dies, she can never leave or else she'll forfeit the entire estate.

Thiruvananthapuram Central railway station

It is the largest and busiest railway station in Kerala in terms of passenger movement and an important rail hub in Southern Railway.

Varese railway station

As from 2013, Varese railway station will become international, upon the opening of the new Varese–Arcisate (I)–Stabio (CH)–Mendrisio railway, which will branch off at Arcisate from the Varese-Porto Ceresio line, and then enter Switzerland at Stabio.

Warszawa Wschodnia railway station

It is now considered the worst railway station in Poland, according to Gazeta Wyborcza which gave it last place in the ranking of 23 most significant Polish railway stations.

West Kirby railway station

West Kirby railway station is situated in the town of West Kirby, Wirral, England.

Wunghnu railway station

Wunghnu is a closed railway station on the Goulburn Valley railway in the township of Wunghnu, Victoria, Australia.