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on a normal network - ie not one run by a bus (stourbridge i'm thinking here)

I ask because the other night- I kid you not, I saw a group of able bodied yoofs asking when the next train to foregate street was).   A couple of them were over endowed in the girth area (and i'm not svelt by any means so I can say that) - but even so - FFS

By the time the next train arrives at shrub to get to foregate, they could have walked it!  I have done many times when the truck is at shrub and I come into foregate!

I did feel like saying - walk you idle goits - takes about ten minutes.  But it was late and I couldnt be arsed (which is unlike me)

50 chains

Exeter Central and St James Park are 38 chains.

I was was at Shrub Hill once when a couple asked when the next train to New Street was.  Platform staff went into office and got out a map and showed them the way to walk to Foregate Street.

There cant be many stations where when you ask the next train time question you are told to walk to the next station as it is quicker.!

That's not even in the top 20...

From	To	Chains
Ty Glas	Birchgrove	17
City Thameslink	Blackfriars	20
Whitchurch	Coryton	23
Rhiwbina	Whitchurch	25
Newhaven Town	Harbour	26
Barbican	Farringdon	27
Alexandra Parade	Duke Street	27
Manchester Oxford Road	Deansgate	29
Walton	Orrell Park	30
Belle Vue	Ryder Brow	30
Dumbarton Central	Dalreoch	30
Maesteg	Maesteg Ewenny Rd	31
Wandsworth Rd	Clapham High St	31
Devonport	Devonport Dockyard	32
Bootle Oriel Road	New Strand	33
Birkenhead Central	Green Lane	34
Manor Road	Hoylake	34
Moorgate	Barbican	35
Penarth	Dingle Road	35
Fairwater	Waun-Gron Park	35
Sundridge Park	Bromley North	35

Andfourof them are misery rail which I dont regard as a proper railway

A few others are london undergrounds - which again I dont regard as a proper railway

LYMPSTONE VILLAGE-lympstone commando? or is this cheating

They are 81 chains miles apart. Exton to Lympstone Commando is much closer (35 chains)

Shortest on the DLR in London WAS Canary Wharf to Heron Quays before Heron Quays relocation, from CW Doors Closed to HQ Doors Open it was only 45 seconds.

Falmouth Town - Falmouth Docks is pretty close,
Lelant to Lelant Saltings,
Keyham to Dockyard,
Spring road - Hall Green?
Snow hill - Moor Street?

The two that I can recall hearing past comment about are ...

Culrain to Invershin ...
Leicester Square to Covent Garden

Embankment to Charing Cross - you can see one from the other!

The Stourbridge branch is was the shortest branch line . But as Mookie says - now run by a bus. (albeit on rails)

The three closest stations in the UK are 3 DLR stations (the ones either side of, and Canary Wharf). A matter of yards between the platforms!

FACT it's less steps to walk on the street level between the two, than it is to walk down to the platform at either station and walk up to street level at the other.

Not when the alternative entrance to Charing Cross station beside the Playhouse Theatre is open, it isn't.

And Wigan Wallgate that is on the opposite side of the road to Wigan North Western!

As I started the debate can we leave out any city undergrounds - London underground and liverpool misery raiil as an example - they are not to me Rail transport

Its funny - i'll happily try to go by rail anywhere but if I'm in scouseland visiting mum, I'll drive into the city centre (even during the recent traffic crud) even though we're a stone's throw from aintree station


I spent 6 years using misery rail going to school - I do not want to revisit EVER

i was going to say the two wigan stations but i presume we mean same line next stop? its been a while but there are two stations on the line between ashburys and glossop just after guide bridge,,, you can see one from the other however sose hill services stop at one glossop stop at the other

Then perhaps you should rename your thread to "... two closest mainline stations"? Merseyrail is of course a 'proper' railway in that it uses a fleet of standard gauge vehicles that run on standard width tracks, with standard national railway signalling arrangements. The franchise (or 'contract' as it is known) is unique in that the Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive have awarded it rather than the Dft, though it publishes it's punctuality and reliability statistics alongside all the other franchises. Given that they are among the best, and the network as a whole has improved massively over the last few years, calling it 'Misery Rail' is also a little silly.

I stand corrected about the mainline bit.

It has to me been misery rail since I was a kid, and misery rail it will stay.

And - getting back to the original question - FGW's policy means that a Forgate Street terminating train from Bristol or Paddington that gets turned short at Shrub Hill with no alternative trains within an hour, results in a bus or buses being provided between the two stations. And, yes, it has happened at least twice when I have been on duty!

I would nominate Tyndrum Lower and Upper Tyndrum. They are on different lines, Oban & Fort William, however. According to good old Wiki:- "separated physically by only a few hundred yards, but about ten miles apart by rail".

Tyndrum must certainly be pretty close to being the smallest place in UK to have two railway stations.....................unless someone knows better !

Or the two Windsor stations (Windsor and Eton Central and Windsor and Eton riverside) They are about five minute walk apart but I'd hate to think how long it would take to get from one to the other via train!  :)

damn you !!!! im going to be up all night reading about the West Highland Line,

interesting fact Most trains currently serving Fort William and Oban split or join at Crianlarich, with the result that separate trains both heading in the same direction generally call at Tyndrum's two stations at about the same time

good old wickipedia

For those who perhaps need to get out more: http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/tyndrum/tyndrum/index.html  ;) :D ;D

2hr 33 minutes according to national rail - but you have to force it by saying via Paddington or else it tells you to walk

Chancery Lane to Holborn?

Quicker via Reading ....

Leg 1 of 4Tue 26 May
Windsor & Eton Central (WNC) to Slough (SLO)
09:24  09:30  0:06

 Leg 2 of 4Tue 26 May
Slough (SLO) to Reading (RDG)
09:37  09:52  0:15

 Leg 3 of 4Tue 26 May
Reading (RDG) to Staines (SNS)
10:12  10:58  0:46

 Leg 4 of 4Tue 26 May
Staines (SNS) to Windsor & Eton Riverside (WNR)
11:07  11:21  0:14