Some stations and routes only have limited services. If this Is not taken into account, then timetables displayed in journey enquiries may not be as expected by the user or may fail if no service exists within the timescale searched for.
This is a summary of those stations/routes as at March 2022. The table is indexed by the 2-alpha TOC code used in timetable data…
TOC | Station/Route | Service Summary | Comments |
AW | Hawarden Bridge | 0631 SuX Wrexham General-Bidston | No other services. |
0730 & 1632 SuX Wrexham Central-Bidston | |||
0731, 0831, 1635 & 1745 SuX Bidston-Wrexham Central | |||
CH | Sudbury & Harrow Road | SX 4 x Up services between 0710-0908 | No other services |
SX 4 x Down services between 1640-2040 | |||
CH | West Ealing - South Ruislip/High Wycombe | 1102 SX South Ruislip-West Ealing | No other services - except for occasional engineering work diversions. |
1147 SX West Ealing-High Wycombe | |||
CH | Quainton Road | Occasional shuttle service from/to Aylesbury | Operates for certain special event days at Buckinghamshire Railway Centre |
EM | Ancaster | SX & SO Three or four trains in each direction during commuter hours and lunchtime. Closed on Sundays | |
EM | Rauceby | SX & SO Three or four trains in each direction during commuter hours and lunchtime. Closed on Sundays | |
EM | Netherfield | SX & SO: 3-4 trains in each direction. SuO: 2 trains in each direction. | Netherfield tickets valid to nearby Carlton station on parallel route. |
EM | Swineshead, Hubberts Bridge and Thorpe Culvert (Skegness Branch) | SX & SO Two trains in each direction. Closed on Sundays | |
EM | Spondon | SX & SO Ten trains per day in each direction, at times to match Rolls Royce shift patterns. | |
GW | Appleford | SX: Morning Peak and evenings, plus 1 train in each direction at lunchtime. | |
SO: Every 2 hours for most of the day | |||
GW | Ascott-under-Wychwood, Combe, Finstock | 0653 SX Worcester Foregate Street-Didcot Parkway | No other services. |
1622 SX Paddington-Great Malvern | |||
GW | Shipton | SX: 3 down and 2 up services | No other services. |
SO: 4 down and 4 up services | |||
GW | Coombe Junction Halt (Liskeard-Looe) | 2 trains each way SX & SO | No other services |
GW | Lelant Saltings | 0750 SX & SO St Erth-St Ives | Previously the Park & Ride station for St Ives - that function now being served by St Erth. |
0902 SX & 0904 SO St Ives-St Erth | |||
GW | Lympstone Commando | See comments > | Regular service, but public station access restricted to footpath outside Royal Marines base. |
GW | Newton St Cyres | 4 Up and 3 Down services SX & SO. | |
4 each way Suns | |||
GW | St Budeaux Ferry Road | 4 trains per day each way SX, 3-4 trains each way SO, 1-2 trains each way SuO | St Budeaux Victoria Road is nearby on parallel route. |
GW | Menheniot | 3-4 trains each way SX and SO, 2 trains each way Suns | |
GW | Pilning | 0800 SO & 1300 SO Cardiff-Taunton. | No services towards Cardiff. After 1330 SO return tickets to Pilning valid to Severn Beach. |
IL | Smallbrook Junction | Island Line trains only call on days that the Isle of Wight Steam Railway is operating | |
LE | Berney Arms | 0736 & 1136 Norwich-Great Yarmouth, and 1517 & 1747 Great Yarmouth-Norwich SX and SO | No other services. |
5 down and 5 up services on Sundays | |||
LE | Lakenheath | No SX Service. 1 train each way SO | |
Sun: 4 trains eastbound, 3 westbound | |||
LE | Buckenham | 1 train each way SO, 4 trains each way Suns. No SX service | |
LE | Spooner Row | 1-2 trains each way SX & SO | |
LE | Eccles Road | 2 trains each way SX & SO | |
LE | Harling Road | 2 trains each way SX & SO | |
LE | Shippea Hill | 0700 SX & SO Cambridge-Norwich | |
1838 SO Norwich-Cambridge | |||
LO | Wandsworth Road-Battersea Park | 2206 SX Dalston Junction-Battersea Park | |
0618 & 2303 SX Battersea Park-Dalston Junction | |||
LM | Bordesley | 1318 SO Whitlocks End-Great Malvern | No other regular services. However, trains make additional stops for Birmingham City home games. |
LM | Polesworth | 0557 SX Northampton-Crewe | No other Down services. Footbridge to southbound platform demolished when WCML revamped, so no Up services call at Polesworth |
0637 SO Northampton-Crewe | |||
LM | Barlaston and Wedgwood | No trains since WCML revamp around 2004 | Stations still tecnically open. Rail tickets valid on local buses between Stone-Stoke on Trent |
NT | Manchester United Football Ground | Special shuttle from/to Manchester Oxford Road | Station only open for Manchester United home games, but suspended since 2019 for security reasons |
NT | Stockport-Reddish South-Denton-Guide Bridge-Stalybridge | 0846 SO Stalybridge to Stockport | Parliamentary service in lieu of route closure. No other trains call at Reddish South and Denton stations. |
0945 SO Stockport to Stalybridge | |||
NT | Ardwick (Manchester) | 0659 SX Hadfield-Manchester Piccadilly | No other services. |
0759 SX Marple-Manchester Piccadilly | |||
1644 & 1805 SX Manchester Piccadilly-Marple | |||
NT | Clifton (Manchester) | 0634 SX & SO Southport-Stalybridge | No other services |
1731 SX & SO Stalybridge-Southport | |||
NT | Helsby-Ellesmere Port | 4 trains per day each way SX & SO | No other services call at the intermediate stations: Stanlow & Thornton (see also below) and Ince & Elton |
NT | Heysham Port | 1019 SX & SO, 1032 SuO Leeds-Heysham | To connect with daytime Isle of Man ferries only. No connections to evening sailings inbound or outbound - passengers must transfer by taxi at own expense. |
1315 SX & SO, 1305 SuO Heysham-Leeds | |||
NT | Morecambe-Oxenholme/Carnforth | 0530 SX & SO Lancaster-Carnforth-Morecambe | No other services use the Bare Lane-Hest Bank curve |
NT | Gainsborough Central, Kirton Lindsey and Brigg | 0803, 1203 & 1601 SO Sheffield-Cleethorpes | No weekday or Sunday services |
1114 , 1520 & 1832 SO Cleethorpes-Sheffield | |||
NT | Knottingley-Goole route (Whitley Bridge, Hensall, Snaith, Rawcliffe) | 0704 & 1849 SX & SO Goole-Leeds | No other services |
1716 SX & SO Leeds-Goole | |||
NT | British Steel Redcar | See comments > | Station to mothballed since December 2019 as steelworks closed. May reopen when site developed. |
NT | Tees-Side Airport | 1424 Hartlepool-Darlington | No other services |
NT | Chathill | SX & SO: 2 down and 2 up services | No other services |
NT | Pegswood, Widdington & Acklington | SX & SO: 1 down and 2 up services | No other services |
NT | Pontefract Baghill | Two services each way SX, SO & SuO | No other services |
NT | Clitheroe-Hellifield | SuO: 1-2 services each way March-December | "Dalesrail" services for hikers |
NT | Salwick | 3 services each way Monday-Saturday | |
NT | Sankey for Penketh | 2 services each way Monday-Saturday. | Services reduced from hourly frequency from 16/12/19 following opening ov nearby Warrington West. |
NT | Stanlow & Thornton | See comments > | Station located within the Stanlow Oil Refinery, with limited pedestrian only access. See also "Helsby-Ellesmere Port" above. |
SN | Wandsworth Road-Victoria | 0530 SX Victoria-Bromley South | In lieu of withdrawn London Bridge-Victoria services after 10/12/12. Most other paths on that route taken over by Highbury & Islington-Clapham Junction services (see also LO above) |
1818 SX Sevenoaks-Victoria | |||
SN | Doleham | 2-3 services in each direction SX. 2 each way SO and 1-2 each way Suns | |
SR | Dunrobin Castle | Only open during British Summer Time | Station closed in Winter for safety reasons (no station lighting) |
SR | Falls of Cruachan | Open May-September | Station closed on other dates for safety reasons (no station lighting) |
SR | IBM (Greenock) | See comments > | Station closed on 19/12/18. May reopen in future under new name if housing estate built. |
SW | Corfe Castle (station on private railway) | Summer: Three trains each way SO Wareham-Corfe Castle | One train TO Corfe starts from Basingstoke and runs via Yeovil/Weymouth. One train FROM Corfe runs to Waterloo via Weymouth/Yeovil. |
SW | Yeovil Junction-Yeovil Pen Mill | SX & SO: 4-5 trains in each direction as extensions of Waterloo/Salisbury-Yeovil Junction services. |
The PMS Service Desk welcomes advice of any changes to this list, either where services have improved or where they have been reduced.