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Can you identify (please, each member, choose just one to post an answer for) these stations:

1. Originally opened as [redacted] station in 1844, the station was so unpopular it closed in December that same year. It reopened with new services in 1862, and in 1868 it was renamed [redacted].

2. The original building was typical of those designed by Harry Bell Measures for the stations of the [redacted] Railway that opened on 30 July 1900. It was given a flat roof in the hope that commercial development would take place on top, but so far this has not happened.

3. The southern platform is used for all regular passenger services. On departure trains may run in either direction. Access between the two platforms was by means of a subway. This subway is regularly flooded to a depth of several metres.

4. The station is a request stop used mainly by trekkers and cyclists although originally built to serve a number of cottages occupied by railway workers. Closed in the Beeching era but reopened around 20 years later.

5. London station 'like last train out of Saigon' amid Easter travel disruption. Some passengers reported shoving and arguments as thousands were delayed for several hours on Good Friday.

6. Re-designs and station upgrades have left behind a maze of disused tunnels, abandoned track and a complete Greathead shield from 1904, the only one of its kind on the London Underground Network.

Is 4 Ribblehead?

2 sounds line a deep-level London Underground line, from the comparatively late opening date and from the flat roof that was hoping for commercial development.  I don't know which station - I'll guess Holland Park.

I think 4 is Courour on west highland lone

Not Corrour, I'm afraid - that's not a re-opening.  Ribblehead fits the description I gave, but there is somewhere else I had in mind that's closer to the length of time it was closed, and  I had in mind.


Your guess is spot on. It is indeed Holland Park.   Queensway of the same design, but the roof HAS been built on.

6. Moorgate.

5 = London Euston today with no trains, due planned closure for NR and its Contractors Infrastructure activities.

4- Sugar Loaf

1. Kensington Olympia otherwise known as Addison Road.

4 Correct answers (and here are links to my sources).  No reports of crowded scenes at Euston though (quite the reverse) and one still to be identified - a station that I know many members have passed through.

1. Kensington Olympia otherwise known as Addison Road. - TonyN
https://www.mylondon.news/lifestyle/travel/kensington-olympia-secret-underground-station-26648671
Originally opened as Kensington station in 1844, the station was so unpopular it closed in December that same year. It reopened with new services, including the Metropolitan line, in 1862, and in 1868 it was renamed Kensington Addison Road.

2. Holland Park - PrestburyRoad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland_Park_tube_station
The original building was typical of those designed by Harry Bell Measures for the stations of the Central London Railway that opened on 30 July 1900. It was given a flat roof in the hope that commercial development would take place on top, as at Queensway station, but so far this has not happened. The building was refurbished in the 1990s.

4. Sugar Loaf - Hafren
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Loaf_railway_station
This station is a request stop used mainly by trekkers and cyclists, since it is the nearest stop to the Sugar Loaf vantage point, although it was originally built to serve a number of cottages occupied by railway workers (such as signalmen and track gangers).

6. Moorgate - JayMac
https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/hidden-london/moorgate
The station opened in 1865 as Moorgate Street on the first extension of the Metropolitan line joined in 1900 by the first extension of the Deep Tube. Remarkable re-designs and station upgrades have left behind a maze of disused tunnels, abandoned track and a complete Greathead shield from 1904, the only one of its kind on the London Underground Network.

5 St Pancras

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/euston-station-london-saigon-rail-passengers-st-pancras-station-b2316117.html

So we are just left with this one:


Anyone??

3. Ryde Esplanade.