Guess the Station...

[Track Basher]

No.

This station retained direct services to Belfast Central but they now depart in the other direction. They used to go south but now they go north,

 

[Ivo]

Antrim?

 

[Track Basher]

Antrim?

Is the correct answer.

 

[Anon Mouse]

Marino?

oops just saw the previous post!

 

[Ivo]

Merci!

You would think that Antrim had a more worthwhile station than that picture would suggest, but hey! Also, combining the two clues (Adelaide being close alphabetically and reversal of Belfast Central services) meant there would only ever be one answer.

Have a gander at this, which may seem rather similar to my Grays one...

 

[Anon Mouse]

Purfleet?

 

[Ivo]

Not even close.

The Grays reference simply means that, on first glance, the picture may seem similar to a picture of Grays I uploaded several weeks ago, not that this station is within close range of Grays.

 

[richard1976]

hazel grove

 

[Ivo]

Also some way out.

Come on guys; two guesses in half an hour! Not impressed.

 

[Anon Mouse]

Finsbury Park?

 

[Ivo]

Is this "pluck the station out of a hat and see what it is"? :?

Finsbury Park isn't exactly close either, if I'm honest.

 

[paulravuslante]

Is this "pluck the station out of a hat and see what it is"? :?

What other hope do we have? I don't think many of us work for CBS Outdoor Media and can pinpoint the locations of those Swiftcover.com adverts. CLUE TIME!

 

[Anon Mouse]

Hartlepool?

 

[Ivo]

Hartlepool is some way out as well.

Ye all be wanting a clue? I be willing to supply a clue.

This station has services to precisely three of London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds.

 

[Anon Mouse]

Wakefield Westgate

 

[Ivo]

I don't mean to be rude to anyone, but...

This could take a while.

 

[Jordy]

Somewhere on the WCML? Cheddington? Bit of a wild guess I suppose...

 

[Anon Mouse]

Stoke-on-Trent?

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Cheddington has 1 Class 350 an hour to Euston and 1 an hour to Northampton (?). If Ivo would kindly give us the three actual cities, we may get somewhere...

When I saw Jordy comment on this, I thought it had been locked for some reason, quite a scary moment!

 

[Jordy]

Haha! I'm not that evil :P

 

[richard1976]

Peterborough

 

[clagmonster]

The advertising boards suggest either commuter-land (though not neccesarily NSE teritory) or a major station. The lamp posts luck Intercity to me and most of those on the ECML have been repainted under GNER, which probably rules out Ivo having taken a picture of them as I don't think he's been in the hobby for too long (no offence intended).
That probably places the pick either on the WCML or on a Cross Country route. Most of the southern WCML will have services to London, Brum, Manchester and Liverpool, so we'll go north for now (it'll have to be north of Lancaster I fell).

Penrith?

 

[Ivo]

Haha! I'm not that evil :P

You sure?

This and his guess of Cheddington were Jordy's first and second posts in this thread...

How can I put this...

No. All wrong thus far.

You want the actual list of cities, and not a set of five possible places? Sorry. Not yet. What I will say, however, is this:

The services that link this station to three of those cities are mutually independent of each other. Also, I shall reveal that one of Liverpool and Manchester is correct, but the other is not.
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The amazing thing is, if I had posted the whole picture it wouldn't have lasted thirty seconds...! Cropping at its very best, methinks

 

[clagmonster]

Therefore placing it not on the WCML south of Crewe. Which I suspected anyway. It also eliminates the ECML from York-Newcastle inclusive (plus Leeds) because of the Newcastle-Liverpool services (I believe there are still a couple).
I think it also rules out the entire southern ECML.

Let's go for Oxenholme this time (Scotland-Manchester, Glasgow-Euston, Scotland-Brum, no services to Liverpool or Leeds)

 

[Ivo]

How can I put this...

IT'S NOT ON THE WEST COAST MAIN LINE!

 

[clagmonster]

Ooh, interesting. Through the clues, I think I've ruled out most of the ECML also. I don't think it can be on a North Transpennine route as that would leave the same service serving Leeds and Manchester. Not on the WCML. Most of the East Coast ruled out.

The MML is out because of the London-Leeds services.

How about Haymarket (I'm hoping the Glasgow-Leeds is one of the Glasgow ECML services that doesn't stop)?

 

[Ivo]

All right, I'll come clean. Clagmonster's set of London, Birmingham and Manchester is correct.

This station is not on the ECML either.

 

[clagmonster]

Wrexham General?

 

[Ivo]

Still some way out, although that is among the better answers.

 

[clagmonster]

You've set a good one here. I'll go for Holyhead as that's about the furthes place in North Wales from Wrexham.