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me123

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ainsworth74 said:
If we could avoid numerals as I can't actually think of anywhere that would begin with '4' so that rather breaks the game ;)
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42nd Street - Times Square? Doesn't break the game at all thanks to the imaginative street naming traditions used in America. Can I argue that numerals are permissible?

Anyway, from Moonee Ponds, to...

Secaucus Junction
(NJ, USA, New Jersey Transit services).
 
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me123 said:
42nd Street - Times Square? Doesn't break the game at all thanks to the imaginative street naming traditions used in America......
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Doesn't break any rules if you post it as "Times Square - 42 Street" as per the MTA's map & I've used it several times in the past.
Quite a lot of NY (and US) stations you can't do this for, of course.
 
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VTPreston_Tez said:
Rules
  • Don't put "station" at the end of the post. It's invalid as no station ends in "station" but if it does provide evidence.
  • If the suffix is that of the operator, you can choose to include it or not, e.g. Gare d'Avignon TGV is valid as well as Gare d'Avignon in this case. Please state where you do that.
  • And as such, Tamworth, Tamworth High-Level, and Tamworth Low-Level are all valid where the station does have both high and low level, again please state.
  • The station can be closed or can be from video games/movies, I'm not entirely fussed.
  • Avoid the use of numerals at the end of your answer.
  • It is advisable that only the currently-known station name of any OPEN station should be used in postings on this quiz
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The emboldened section of the rules, details of which are shown above, answer this query about numerals.
 
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VTPreston_Tez said:
  • Don't put "station" at the end of the post. It's invalid as no station ends in "station" but if it does provide evidence.
  • If the suffix is that of the operator, you can choose to include it or not, e.g. Gare d'Avignon TGV is valid as well as Gare d'Avignon in this case. Please state where you do that.
  • And as such, Tamworth, Tamworth High-Level, and Tamworth Low-Level are all valid where the station does have both high and low level, again please state.
  • The station can be closed or can be from video games/movies, I'm not entirely fussed.
  • Avoid the use of numerals at the end of your answer.
  • It is advisable that only the currently-known station name of any OPEN station should be used in postings on this quiz
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Can we interpret this rule that the first letter of a numeral can be used at the start of the name, so long as they are sensible, since this does not cause confusion to the next person as to which letter they should follow on with?
So 42nd Street, 125 Street etc would all be acceptable (so long as they followed on from a final "f" or an "o" in these examples)??
 
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