I'm thinking of a station...

[gnolife]

Malvern Link? (Shrub Hill and Foregate Street in Worcester?)

 

[Class172]

Malvern Link? (Shrub Hill and Foregate Street in Worcester?)

No, class 168s have never served Malvern Link.

Stourbridge Junction...?

Indeed it is Stourbridge Junction. Served by NSE in the 1990s with class 166s to Paddington. It is now served by Chiltern using 168s to Marylebone.

 

[adtrainz]

This two platform station has 6 trains an hour in each direction. Trains heading "up" head to either one of two main stations.

It is served by First Great Western.

 

[Class172]

Lawrence Hill??

 

[dzug2]

Cheltenham Spa? Not quite busy enough methinks

 

[adtrainz]

Neither of those. You're actually quite far off.

 

[Class172]

Havant?

Open floor in the unlikely case it's correct.

 

[adtrainz]

No, but you're on the right lines...

 

[dzug2]

Cosham?

 

[Temple Meads]

Fratton?

 

[150222]

Bristol Parkway?

 

[Class172]

Angerming?

 

[adtrainz]

I'd almost forgotten about this!

None of you are correct, however Class 172 is the closest.

FGW don't serve Angmering.

 

[Class172]

Hove?

 

[dzug2]

Shoreham by Sea?? London Bridge served as well as Victoria. And FGW

 

[adtrainz]

Class 172 takes it!

 

[Class172]

Open floor as I will be out most of the day.

 

[dzug2]

Hang on - according to both Wiki and National Rail Hove has 3 platforms so it can't be the right answer to a 'two platform station'.

Can we have the 'right' answer please - if there is one.

 

[adtrainz]

Oh no.

I must have got my stations wrong again. Let me check...

...It must have been Shoreham. dzug2's floor.

 

[dzug2]

This former Midland Railway station originally had 3 platforms and was a junction

It closed in the 1960s but was reopened in the 1990s on a slightly different site, is no longer a junction and now has 2 platforms. It has a different name, connected with the former branch line.

It has a roughly hourly service in each direction

What are the original and current names?

 

[150222]

Ambergate?

 

[dzug2]

Ambergate?

Not Ambergate.

 

[martinsh]

Cam and Dursley ?

 

[dzug2]

Cam and Dursley ?

Correct - originally Coaley (Junction) with the stations on the branch being Cam and Dursley

 

[martinsh]

Logging off now until tomorrow evening, so open floor if someone wants to post before then.

[ otherwise I will post one then ]

 

[221129]

as its open then ill take it
Great Western/Riviera
2 Through Lines

 

[dzug2]

as its open then ill take it
Great Western/Riviera
2 Through Lines

The only one I can think of is Frome. But the Riviera doesn't go that way all the time and doesn't stop when it does so it shouldn't really count

If I've understood the question properly

 

[Ivo]

One of the stations on the Devon coast, whichever one has the fast lines through it (Dawlish perhaps?).

Frome only has one track

 

[dzug2]

Well Dawlish Warren fits that description - but the Riviera doesn't call there. If it counts XC should as well.

Frome may only have one platform but there's a double track bypass line with no platforms.

 

[martinsh]

Totnes ?