This article lists special-purpose railway stations, i.e. those which meet one or more of these criteria:
It also lists closed stations that satisfied one or more of these criteria when open, and stations which at some point in their history satisfied one or more of the criteria.
| Station | Open? | Year of closure | Always/still special purpose? | Criteria[1] | Notes | Citation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No public access? | Private land? | Appointment only? | One venue only? | Omitted from timetable/event day service? | ||||||
| rowspan=5 | rowspan=5 | Possibly, until public opening | Initially opened for exclusive use of Royal Naval Cordite Factory, Holton Heath | |||||||
| Serves Kempton Park Racecourse. Has had a regular service since 2006. | [2] | |||||||||
| Used for visitors to the Royal Marine Commando Training Centre. The station is owned by Network Rail and has been accessible to the public since the creation of a walking and cycling path between the station and training centre. | [3] [4] | |||||||||
| Built to serve the Singer's sewing machine factory which now no longer exists but keeps its name. Now has a regular service. | ||||||||||
| Built as a connection to two railways with no actual entrance to the station. This is the only station in the UK that has been built for this purpose. | ||||||||||
| rowspan=24 | 1962 | [5] | ||||||||
| 1989 | [6] | |||||||||
| 1940's | [7] | |||||||||
| 1966 | Built to serve the ICI Nobel Explosives Factory in Stevenston, North Ayrshire. Platforms still exist. | |||||||||
| 1967 | Built to serve the former Bogside Racecourse in Irvine, and also Bogside Golf Club | |||||||||
| 1986 | Served Boothferry Park football stadium, Hull | [8] | ||||||||
| 1994 | Closed when the channel tunnel opened | |||||||||
| 1977 | Closed due to more people using cars | |||||||||
| 2001 | Line officially closed in 2014 | |||||||||
| 2018 | Opened to serve a large facility owned by IBM that employed 4,000 at the time of opening but today much of the site has been sold off to other companies. | |||||||||
| 2018 | Built outside of the Old Trafford stadium and was only open on match days. Service suspended since 2018 | |||||||||
| 1998 | Opened to serve the Meadowbank Stadium, Edinburgh | |||||||||
| 2006 | Served the Ferry Terminal but closed due to more people using cars and the closeness of Newhaven Harbour station. Officially closed 2020. | |||||||||
| 1981 | Was built the serve the ferry service over the Humber to Hull. Closed when the Humber bridge opened and the ferry service ceased. | [9] | ||||||||
| 1997 | Served the Baseball Ground, Derby but closed when Derby County F.C. moved to a new stadium | |||||||||
| 2019 | Built to serve the nearby Teesside Steelworks site. Services suspended in 2019. | |||||||||
| 1988 | Opened for the workers who worked at the Rowntree's factory in York. Officially closed in 1989. | |||||||||
| 1948 | Built to serve the Ruddington Ordnance & Supply Depot | [10] | ||||||||
| 1992 | [11] | |||||||||
| 1993 | Served the Rolls-Royce factory at Derby. Not officially closed until 1998, with a replacement taxi service being provided in the interim. | |||||||||
| 2022 | Built to serve Stanlow Oil Refinery. Service has been suspended since February 2022[12] | |||||||||
| 1996 | Lost its regular service in 1956 but continued to be served by football specials until 1996 | [13] [14] | ||||||||
| 1996 | Served Vicarage Road, the home stadium of Watford F.C., was only open on match days, saw its last train when a road widening scheme severed the line, and was officially closed in 2003 | [15] | ||||||||
| 1987 | Visited by one-off charter service in 1999 | [16] |