Odd one out - AQ 16th December

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[Merthyr Imp]

2 Ulverston is the only one not to have featured in a TV^▸ (Thames Valley, or TeleVision, depending on context) series or a film.

Series 2, episode 4 of Michael Portillo's Great Coastal Railway Journeys featured him at Ulverston station.

Perhaps I should have inserted the word fictional somewhere.

[Oxonhutch]

There are various odd ones out here ... I had Blackpool Central, but why?

All the others aren't a tatty car/coach park and a general carbuncle on the town that it hosts.

One must remember that this was a self inflicted wound as Central was not on Beeching's list for closure.

[Mark A]

54 trains per day to zero overnight. Blackpool Central must count as the most precipitous railway station decline and closure.

Mark

[ellendune]

I did think of Blackpool Central, but it wasn't the only one closed and the railway removed. 

54 trains per day to zero overnight. Blackpool Central must count as the most precipitous railway station decline and closure.

Did Blackpool North initially take all those 54 trains a day or was there some rationalisation?

[Oxonhutch]

Did Blackpool North initially take all those 54 trains a day or was there some rationalisation?

Blackpool North (the town's main station today) was the one slated to close but the Corporation cast their greedy eye on the railway estate of Central that lay just behind the promenade and came to a cheap deal with BR^▸ (British Rail(ways)) to swap the two stations around.  Those 54 services terminated short at Blackpool South for nigh on 7 years which was clearly unsustainable with only two working platforms. I think the last London Euston express moved to the North station in 1972. Today, the line to Blackpool South is just a withered single track siding with a train service to match.

[grahame]

Blackpool Central IS the odd one out I had identified, and some of you are quite close to identifying why that is/was.

[Oxonhutch]

Blackpool Central IS the odd one out I had identified, and some of you are quite close to identifying why that is/was.

Part of the original station - the excursion platforms toilet block - still exists and is in use. Don't know if North has any toilets!

[JayMac]

Blackpool Central IS the odd one out I had identified, and some of you are quite close to identifying why that is/was.

Part of the original station - the excursion platforms toilet block - still exists and is in use. Don't know if North has any toilets!

That toilet block was demolished in 2009. Replaced with more modern facilities.

StreetView comparison. May 2009 - July 2021

[Oxonhutch]

That toilet block was demolished in 2009

A piece of seaside history - destroyed 

[grahame]

Odd one out, and why - from each of these groups:

1.
Black Dog Halt
Blackdyke Halt
Blackhall Colliery
Black Horse Road
Blackpool Central
Blackpool North
Blackrod
Blackwell

3 days ... and whilst some of you have guessed that Blackpool Central is the odd one out ... I haven't quite read that it's the only one of those stations that was NOT proposed for closure in the Beeching report.