The "Name the Station" game

[backontrack]

1. I am located east of Hinckley.

 

[AndrewR232]

Barry Island

 

[backontrack]

2. I am located south of Burton.

Sorry, I made a mistake with my first clue. Let me correct it.

1. I am located east of Hinckley.

 

[martinsh]

2. I am located south of Burton.

Which Burton do you mean ?

Tamworth

 

[Springs Branch]

Royston

 

[backontrack]

I mean south of Burton-on-Trent.
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3. I am north of Rugby.

 

[martinsh]

Stamford

BTW, Tamworth isn't east of Hinckley - why didn't you pick that up ?

 

[backontrack]

I don't know.

4. I'm west of Melton Mowbray.

 

[martinsh]

South Wigston

 

[backontrack]

5. I am not South Wigston or Leicester.

 

[Springs Branch]

Syston ?

 

[PermitToTravel]

Loughborough?

 

[backontrack]

5a. I serve the town of Narborough.

 

[Springs Branch]

Sticks pin into map at random ....

Narborough

 

[backontrack]

Sticks pin into map at random ....

Narborough

Wow! What an amazing coincidence!

Your floor.

 

[Springs Branch]

Clue 1: This station is north of St Pancras.

 

[Smudger105e]

Durham

 

[Springs Branch]

Clue 2: Trains from here serve two different central London termini.

 

[backontrack]

York?

 

[clagmonster]

Kings Lynn?

 

[Springs Branch]

3: In the past, this station had through trains to/from London St Pancras. The last of these were cut in the 1960s.

 

[DasLunatic]

Loughborough

 

[Springs Branch]

Loughborough

Not Loughborough (looks like was posted simultaneously to me posting Clue 3).

 

[PermitToTravel]

Cambridge?

 

[southern442]

Glasgow Central?

 

[Springs Branch]

4: Three different systems of powering trains are in use here - diesel, electric AC & DC.

 

[DasLunatic]

Liverpool Lime Street?

 

[Springs Branch]

Liverpool Lime Street?

It isn't a Liverpool station.

 

[DasLunatic]

London Euston, then?

 

[Darren R]

Barking?