Preston Park railway station spur tracks which run from Preston Park through a tunnel to . The London Brighton and South Coast Railway opened a new station named "Preston", on 1 November 1869 to serve the growing parish of Preston, then north of the Brighton boundary. The station was enlarged and remodelled to its present design in 1879 during the construction of the Cliftonville Curve spur line from the main line to Hove and the West Sussex coast line. The station was then renamed "Preston Park" although the nearby Preston Park did not exist until 1883. In 1881 the railway murderer Percy Lefroy Mapleton
Lancaster Green Ayre railway station park near the site. The site of the adjacent locomotive shed is now occupied by a supermarket. Citations Sources Lancaster Green Ayre railway station Lancaster Green Ayre railway station was the Midland Railway's station in the city of Lancaster in England. The line between Green Ayre and Morecambe was used for pioneering experimental electrification via overhead wires. The station closed to passengers in 1966 and there are no remains. Lancaster's first two stations were the Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway's at "Greaves" in 1840, and the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway's "Lancaster Castle" which superseded it in 1846. The third station