Station association

[Peter Mugridge]

Fishguard Harbour - the fish goes with the Chippenham...:roll:



( Hang about.... how did we get from Chapel-en-le-Frith to Stockport??? )

 

[Welshman]

Trent-Barton Skyline 199, I suppose.

However:-

Welwyn Garden City

Garden peas to go with your fish and chips.

 

[Eagle]

Welwyn Garden city is WGC. On the other hand, CGW is Caergwrle.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Flint has a very old castle, as does Caergwrle.

General information : In the wars between Wales and England, Flint was the FIRST castle to be built by the English in 1286 and Caergwrle was the LAST castle to be built by the Welsh in 1283.

 

[Buttsy]

Aberdeen - The Granite city

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Trafford Park has a container terminal, as does Aberdeen.

 

[317653]

Felixstowe- has a container terminal

 

[Welshman]

Felixstowe to Catford.

 

[LE Greys]

Moulsecoombe (not quite, but it's the local spelling)

 

[317653]

Falmer

 

[Buttsy]

Horwich Parkway - Another station closer to a town's football ground than the main station in town

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

POST DELETED..previous one just beat me to it.

 

[DarloRich]

Fishguard Harbour - the fish goes with the Chippenham...:roll:



( Hang about.... how did we get from Chapel-en-le-Frith to Stockport??? )

We both posted at about the same time - i took chapel and got Chapel-en-le-Frith and was ignored!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

CREWE had a LMS locomotive works, as did Horwich

 

[Oswyntail]

CREWE had a LMS locomotive works, as did Horwich

Skipton - every crew should have a skip.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Buxton has a freight only line to a stone terminal, as does Skipton

 

[Welshman]

Penzance

[Buxton Opera House hosts the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival.
"Pirates of Penzance" - one of their well-known comic operas].

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dover has a ferry service, as does Penzance.

 

[trentside]

Ramsgate - Also served by ferries, and also by trains for HS1 - as is Dover.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashford has an EMU depot, as does Ramsgate

 

[Buttsy]

Oxford - blandly obvious

 

[Welshman]

Last time Oxford came up, I went with the Morse-Lewis link and suggested Lewes.
So now I'll go for one of the Oxford colleges:-

Exeter

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Salford has two named stations, as does Exeter.

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Exeter has 3... St Davids, St Thomas and Central

 

[OxtedL]

Croydon also has two stations: East, West and South.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Another one bites the dust.....

(I am not quick enough off the mark today)

 

[Buttsy]

Heworth - where 2 systems start to run as one (NR & TW Metro)

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Where the LUL in Croydon hock:?

West Ham - Heworth = HEW; West Ham = WEH

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Where the LUL in Croydon hock:?

West Ham - Heworth = HEW; West Ham = WEH

It is situated in-between George Street and Lebanon Road on page 18 of 12th edition of Rail Atlas (Great Britain and Ireland)

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Isn't that the Croydon Tramlink?