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At the planning stage, Stoneleigh station was very nearly called Stoneleigh Park, giving a run of four.

Not quite the same thing, but the 7 aitches from Houslow East going west has always impressed me.

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Medford | 13.01.23 - 7:05 a.m. | #

The circle line has Baker Street and Great Portland Street.

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King's cross st pancras | 13.01.23 - 7:09 a.m. | #

If you go far enough, you can find Achnashellach, Achnasheen and Achanalt. (All are one change from London).

dg writes: also Llandovery, Llanwrda, Llangadog and Llandeilo, but they don't share a word either.

martin | 13.01.23 - 7:41 a.m. | #

On the Nottingham Express Transit on the national rail map, you have 4 Streets from Noel Street to Wilkinson Street.

Services to the closed Folkestone Harbour station used to pass through Folkestone West, Central, and East to get there

Ian | 13.01.23 - 7:43 a.m. | #

Also on the South East rail map are West Worthing / Worthing / East Worthing.

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John M | 13.01.23 - 7:51 a.m. | #

Sticking “International” on the end always strikes me as a silly thing.

Note that none of the Northern Irish stations on the Belfast Dublin line have this suffix and Birmingham International is actually the Airport station.

Southern Heights (Light Railway) | 13.01.23 - 7:56 a.m. | #

Before it was renamed Fulham Broadway there was Walham Green followed by Parsons Green on the District. Its got me wondering if there are any other historic ones.

ap | 13.01.23 - 8:13 a.m. | #

Historic tube foursomes include:
• Farringdon Street/ Aldersgate Street/ Moorgate Street/ Liverpool Street
• York Road/ Caledonian Road/ Holloway Road/ Gillespie Road

diamond geezer | Homepage | 13.01.23 - 8:20 a.m. | #

Brings to mind the consecutive Rs on the Met from Amersham (and to a lesser extent Watford) to Liverpool Street. Shame about Chesham, Aldgate and the Uxbridge branch preventing a full house on the line as a whole.

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DavidC | 13.01.23 - 8:28 a.m. | #

Ach, I'd say they do start with a word.

martin | 13.01.23 - 8:33 a.m. | #

Sometime later this year there'll be a new triple: Reading / Reading West / Reading Green Park

David | 13.01.23 - 8:35 a.m. | #

The Liverpool Overhead Railways managed a combination of Docks and Dock in station names.

Still Anon | 13.01.23 - 9:02 a.m. | #

And sometime even later there'll be Cambridge North/Cambridge/Cambridge South.

Ian | 13.01.23 - 9:20 a.m. | #

Does this count? (Official names)
London Charing Cross
London Waterloo East
London Bridge
(and, with a change of train)
London Charing Cross

timbo | 13.01.23 - 9:40 a.m. | #

Another triple is on the GWR Exmouth - Paignton route. Exeter Central, Exeter St Davids, Exeter St Thomas. It's slightly convoluted in that the train reverses at St Davids but it does it hourly all day long.

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ap | 13.01.23 - 9:44 a.m. | #

Deansgate is between Oxford Road & Victoria.

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Terry Ough | 13.01.23 - 10:23 a.m. | #

Timbo. One of those should be London Cannon Street.

IslandDweller | 13.01.23 - 10:34 a.m. | #

And what about repeated multi-word strings in consecutive stations? West St Leonards and St Leonards Warrior Square spring to mind, but I bet there are others.

Jonathan Wadman | 13.01.23 - 11:06 a.m. | #

There may be the odd passenger service that does Streatham Hill - Tulse Hill - Herne Hill.

dg writes: There isn't.

And if you are of a certain age, you will refer to the stations on the Greenford branch as Drayton Green Halt - Castle Bar Park Halt - South Greenford Halt

andy c | 13.01.23 - 11:17 a.m. | #

Down in Devon there's also Exeter St Thomas, Exeter St. David's & Exeter Central.

Chris M | 13.01.23 - 12:11 p.m. | #

The three Watford stations are consecutive although they require a change of train to visit all three. In the past it was briefly five when the Croxley Green branch was still open.

Depending on how pedantic you are with station names, Liverpool Lime Street, Liverpool Central and Liverpool James Street are served consecutively.

cjw714 | 13.01.23 - 12:26 p.m. | #

The three Ardrossan stations are also consecutive.

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cjw714 | 13.01.23 - 12:49 p.m. | #

Wanstead Park really should be named 'Wanstead Flats' to be accurate, as implied on it's Wikipedia page. Or perhaps more logical, it should be re-named to Forest Gate, as it is a similar distance from the Forest Gate station as is the two Edgware Road stations apart from each other.

Doug Robinson | 13.01.23 - 3:17 p.m. | #

An historic triple would have been Newhaven Town, Newhaven Harbour and Newhaven Marine although perhaps trains to Marine did not call at the other two.

I guess the Welsh language trait of place names becoming compound names meant you had to dismiss Llandovery, Llanwrda, Llangadog and Llandeilo rather than allow llan (church) as a word as in:

Church enclosure amid the waters
Church of Saint Cwrdaf
Church of Saint Cadoc
Church of Saint Tielo

It's still four church-based place names in a row on a railway which can't be very common.

Tunnel Bore | 13.01.23 - 5:38 p.m. | #

It's probably apocryphal that London Waterloo to Portsmouth line commuters (in the days of the buffet car) used to have a drink for every station beginning with W.

Stephen | 13.01.23 - 10:16 p.m. | #

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