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    Miniature railway in Cornwall?

    I was going to say Lappa Valley, that's built on the track bed of the Truro-Newquay line i think, what's Dobwalls like, similar?
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    Farewell to the South Wexford branch

    When i travelled there, back in 2004, they had brand new units running (the early morning Rosslare Harbour - Waterford Plunkett service I'm surprised the Ballybrophy - Nenagh - Limerick service still runs, it's near a few large towns, but only 2 trains a day last time i checked, any idea if...
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    Two stations.

    agree with 4sKRT, i was stuck trying to work out if there was a station called Galton bridge somewhere
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    Name the town...

    Hazarding a guess at Fenny Compton, as 2 of the platforms are intact me thinks...or Aberystwyth?
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    Two stations.

    Liskeard
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    Two stations.

    Wick?
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    Farewell to the South Wexford branch

    That's one of few lines i've travelled on back home. Did a weekend trip, Didcot Parkway evening HST to Swansea, the train onwards had broken down, so they had to phone up urgently for a coach to take us to Carmarthen, DMU to Fishguard Harbour, ferry across, Rosslare Harbour to Waterford...
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    DB through the tunnel this year?

    I've only skimmed the topic, but people saying they are doing ICE trains that can seperate in the tunnel. i read back in the spring that they've relaxed the law, meaning DB don't need to do that anymore, they can run the normal ICE through
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    Station Scrabble

    I think the OP said ignore the limitations of number of tiles and size of board Rhoose wouldn't count surely as the OP said England only
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    Two stations.

    Inverness?
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    Trivia: Furthest TFL Bus route from London?

    Red London Buses go to /high Wycombe...don't know if that counts
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    which are your locals?

    (x) means closed station Allhallows-on-Sea (x) Benfleet Chalkwell Dagenham East East Tilbury Fambridge Grays Hockley Ingatestone Junction Road (London (x) i think Kings Ferry Bridge Halt (x) Leigh-on-Sea Maldon East & Heybridge (x) North Weald (x) Ockendon Prittlewell Queensway...
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    Stations with unnumbered platforms

    Whitland, 2 platforms (junction between Fishguard, Milford haven and Pembroke branches, 2 unnumbered platforms, i can't remember what the announcements said was 2 years ago
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    Stations with a V or triangle layout.

    Quainton Road is/was a V the Brill platform diverges just before the platform and curves round in the platform. They still have the bubble car going between Princes Risborough and Aylesbury on regular service, it goes up to Quainton Road frequently (half term, holiday weekends etc) Southport...
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    Guess the TOC/ROUTE/STATION

    Apologies for late reply, but question 3, which is the only island linked to mainline by rail, well there are 4, Isle of Sheppey (Queenborough, Sheerness-on-ConcreteWall), Isle of Anglesey (Valley, Rhosneigr, Ty Croes, Bodorgan, Llanfairpwll PG), Holy Island (Holyhead) and Portsea Island...
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    Station Scrabble

    Queenstown Road Battersea 10+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+4+1+1+1+1+2+3+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1=38
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    Percentage of stations still extant

    Okay, new to the forum, Hi guys, hope i can word this right. Which TOC has the highest percentage of intact stations on it's routes? It used to be Island Line before they were merged, as they had 100% of the stations still open on their route (in fact 2 were opened while they were in power...
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    Going From A to A without going through the same station twice.

    Didcot Parkway - Reading - Basingstoke - Yeovil Junction - Exeter Saint David's - Taunton - Westbury - Bath Spa - Bristol Temple Meads - Severn Tunnel Junction - Gloucester - Bromsgrove - Droitwich Spa - Worcester Shrub Hill - Oxford - Didcot Parkway
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    Multi-platform stations with only bi-directional platforms

    Didcot Parkway has 5, signal at each end of Platform 1 - Down Main 2 - Up Main 3 - Up Oxford 4 - Down Oxford 5 - Oxford Loop 3 and 4 bi-directionally when Didcot-Oxford closed, and AXC use them for Didcot to Bournemouth services (although those services obviously have to terminate, don't...
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    Unique railway stations

    Regarding Riccarton Junction, the village of Verney Junction was created around the station Regarding the not running to their county town, the Cornish branches (except Falmouth branch don't run to Truro, and the Southend-on-Sea lines don't run to Chelmsford, as 2 to start

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