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The "Name the Station" game

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Robinson

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The correct answer was Sevenoaks (Bat & Ball station is also in Sevenoaks).
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Clue 1: This station is not electrified.
 

Robinson

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Clue 4: This station serves a settlement which also has a football club which will be playing in its country's top division in season 2012-13.
 

Robinson

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Clue 5: This station has previously been the splitting point for dividing services, although there are no dividing services here in the current timetable.
 

clagmonster

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Clue 3:
This station is served by precisely 1 TOC, although trains operated by another TOC pass through very occasionally when diverted due to engineering works or an incident.
 

clagmonster

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Clue 4:
If proper nouns were allowed, no blank tiles were use and no tiles were laid on bonus scoring squares, this station's name would score 14 points in the standard English version of Scrabble.
 

Ivo

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CrossCountry occasionally get diverted down that way, in addition to their out-of-service runs.

I have to assume I have not won the round with Haslemere :(
 

clagmonster

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No, but as you have demonstrated that it is a valid answer, you can have clue 5:
Trains which terminate here run forward out of service to reverse.
 

clagmonster

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The correct answer was Clitheroe.

Clue 1:
This station is nearer to Derby Road than it is to Derby.
 

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