Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 111. Not illustrated. Chapters: Gatwick Airport Railway Station, Laburnum Railway Station, Melbourne, Heatherdale Railway Station, Melbourne, Uic-Halsted, Kasumigaseki Station, Gare Des Brotteaux, Naka-Oguni Station, Tsugaru-Futamata Station, Ploshchad Lenina, Vdnkh, Rizhskaya, Imabetsu Station, Ōkawadai Station, Ōdai Station, Minmaya Station, Clinton, Pulaski, Illinois Medical District, Kedzie-Homan, Western, Alexeyevskaya, Enshū-Byōin Station, Racine, Prospekt Mira, Cicero, Brussels National Airport Railway Station, Ørneberget Station, California, Kutuzovskaya, Hässelby Strand Metro Station, Chernyshevskaya, Kärrtorp Metro Station, Hässelby Gård Metro Station, Ōkaribe Station, Hammarbyhöjden Metro Station, Björkhagen Metro Station, Farsta Metro Station. Excerpt: Gatwick Airport railway station - There have been two Gatwick stations approximately sited 0.85 miles (1.37 km) from each other. The station, originally named Gatwick , was built on the present site in September 1891 to serve the Gatwick Racecourse, which originally operated only on race days. The facilities included passing loops and sidings to hold race trains without impeding the Brighton Main Line. The sidings were extended during the First World War to be able to accommodate munitions trains heading for Newhaven. From 1946 until 1958 Gatwick station was renamed Gatwick Racecourse, even though racing had been abandoned in 1940 and not been re-instated after the Second World War. In fact the station had fallen out of use following the opening of the original Tinsley Green/Gatwick airport station (described below). However, during the early 1950s the airport was expanded and took over the land occupied by the racecourse, and the station was rebuilt and integrated with the new airport terminal. The new buildings opened on 27 May 1958 with a regular train service, and ...
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