The "Name the Station" game

[Robinson]

Stockport?

 

[martinsh]

Stockport?

What trains pass non stop through Stockport ? Not much terminates their either.

 

[Robinson]

What trains pass non stop through Stockport?

The 0749 Buxton-Manchester Piccadilly for one. There may be others as well.

 

[gnolife]

5) The station building is grade II listed.

 

[Robinson]

Manchester Oxford Road?

 

[gnolife]

Manchester Oxford Road?

Oxford Road is correct.

 

[Robinson]

Clue 1: No trains departing from this station during normal operation cross an international border (including the Scotland-England and Wales-England borders).

 

[gnolife]

Blaenau Ffestiniog

 

[martinsh]

OK, I'll bite. What runs non-stop through Oxford Road ?

 

[gnolife]

04:34S/04:38SX Manchester Airport to Liverpool Lime Street, calling at Manchester Piccadilly and Liverpool Lime Street only. There is a corresponding inbound working leaving Liverpool at about 3:30 or so

 

[Robinson]

Clue 2: This station is AC electrified.

 

[gnolife]

Mossley Hill

 

[martinsh]

04:34S/04:38SX Manchester Airport to Liverpool Lime Street, calling at Manchester Piccadilly and Liverpool Lime Street only. There is a corresponding inbound working leaving Liverpool at about 3:30 or so

And you expect us all to know that ?

 

[Robinson]

And you expect us all to know that ?

Is it really significantly more obscure knowledge than some of your history-related clues?

 

[clagmonster]

Park Street?

 

[Robinson]

Clue 3: You can change once and get across precisely 1 international border from this station. There is more than 1 possible station you can make this change at (although at one or more of these stations, you may be letting yourself in for a very long wait).

 

[clagmonster]

Arlesey?

 

[Robinson]

Clue 4: Most trains departing from this station terminate at a station which has through platforms.

 

[gnolife]

Stratford International

 

[clagmonster]

Manors? I believe the Newcastle-Swansea doesn't run anymore, otherwise I have just lost a point.

 

[Robinson]

Clue 5: This station is a single-platform terminus station. There is a junction between it and the next station departing trains reach, but said station is not normally served by trains from the other route that meets the junction.

 

[gnolife]

North Berwick?

 

[Robinson]

North Berwick is correct.

 

[clagmonster]

Newcraighall?

 

[gnolife]

1) This station is south of the route followed by a journey from North Berwick to Pembroke Dock, completed by changing at Edinburgh Waverley and Manchester Piccadilly only (travelling on a 350 into Manchester)

 

[Robinson]

Penarth?

 

[clagmonster]

Fratton?

 

[gnolife]

2) No class of train built by Siemens is booked to call at this station.

 

[clagmonster]

Derby Road?

 

[gnolife]

3) This station is not served by CrossCountry, who do not pass through in regular passenger service.