The "Name the Station" game

[martinsh]

Buxton

 

[RyanB]

Oxenholme (or if we're going for full names, Oxenholme Lake District)

 

[gnolife]

Windermere

 

[Robinson]

Clue 4: This station is a compulsory stop for all scheduled passenger services which pass along the route it is located on.

 

[gnolife]

New Mills Central

 

[Robinson]

Clue 5: This station handles only stopping services in the normal timetable, but at some point within the last 10 years it has acted as a temporary terminus during an extended stint of engineering work/maintenance.

 

[Eagle]

Battersby.

 

[martinsh]

Could be almost anywhere - I give up !!!!

 

[RyanB]

Could be almost anywhere - I give up !!!!

I'm sure that it was meant to get progressively easier with each clue so that by the end it could only really be one of a handful of stations

 

[Robinson]

The correct answer was Grange-Over-Sands.

Clue 5 referred to the extended period of maintenance work on the Leven Estuary viaduct in 2006, during which time all Barrow services were cut back to terminate there.

Open floor. If anyone wishes to object to the clues set, they should get in touch with Ivo.

 

[RyanB]

I'll claim the floor.

Clue 1: This station lies to the the East of Edinburgh

 

[martinsh]

Prestonpans

 

[RyanB]

Clue 2: This station is Electrified.

 

[martinsh]

Drem !!!

 

[RyanB]

Clue 3: The TOC that provides most of this station's services is not the TOC that manages this station.

 

[martinsh]

York ?

 

[RyanB]

Clue 4: This is the only TOC-managed station in Scotland that is not Managed by First ScotRail

 

[Eagle]

Dunbar

 

[clagmonster]

Dunbar?
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Oops, a repeated response penalty for me.

 

[RyanB]

Dunbar

The floor goes to you, my feathery friend

 

[Eagle]

1: This station is east of Edinburgh Waverley.

 

[RyanB]

1: This station is east of Edinburgh Waverley.

Newcraighall

 

[Eagle]

2: This station is electrified.

 

[RyanB]

2: This station is electrified.

North Berwick

 

[Trainfan344]

Twerp?

 

[Robinson]

Norwich?

 

[Eagle]

3: This station has a disused but still intact platform.

 

[Trainfan344]

London Waterloo

 

[Robinson]

Preston (Lancs) (Does Platform 7 there ever get used?)

 

[Eagle]

4: This station is served entirely by pre-privatization rolling stock.