Station association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Skegness is a terminal station, as is Hayes. (Hayes is not as "bracing" as Skegness)

 

[deltic1989]

Nottingham- the other end of the summer HST runs

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Slateford has a CE depot, as does Nottingham

 

[12CSVT]

Blaenau Ffestiniog has a slate mine

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Barnstaple is a terminal station on a single track branch line, as is Blaenau Ffestiniog.

 

[Oswyntail]

Barnstaple was the birthplace of Sir Francis Chichester

 

[142094]

(Hayes is not as "bracing" as Skegness)

I prefer the description in Viz:

Skegness is ****ing ****e

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Durham has a cathedral, as does Chichester

 

[blackettstreet]

Dewsbury is another station with two platforms and one through line.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Halifax is a minster town in WestYorkshire, as is Dewsbury

 

[Oswyntail]

The 1st Viscount Halifax was Charles Wood - so, to go from a station I used to commute from, let's try Hadley Wood

 

[12CSVT]

Bangor station also has tunnels at both ends

 

[Oswyntail]

Yum, nearly tea time, so what sort of "Bangor" shall we have? Let's go for Lincolnshire.
(OK, so I'm hungry)

 

[gnolife]

Yum, nearly tea time, so what sort of "Bangor" shall we have? Let's go for Lincolnshire.
(OK, so I'm hungry)

Lol! - how did you know what I'm eating
Heaton Chapel - theres also a parliamentary service that avoids this station!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chapel-en-le-Frith....for obvious reasons

 

[exile]

Thirsk - a long way from the town it serves.

 

[12CSVT]

Aintree - another place people go to watch the gee-gees

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ayr shares an affiliation with Aintree, as both are the host courses for Grand National races.

 

[Welshman]

Ayr is in "Burns Country".

Stratford-upon-Avon has its associations with a famous English bard.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Milford Haven is a terminal station on a branch line, as is Stratford-upon-Avon.

 

[Welshman]

Havenhouse

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Carbis Bay is a penultimate station from the terminus on a branch line, as is Havenhouse.

 

[150222]

HANWELL also has a viaduct a short distance away.

 

[Welshman]

Ribblehead

same link

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Preston shares an affiliation to Ribblehead in that the river Ribble flows through both areas.

 

[Oswyntail]

Preston was where we moved after I spent the first four years of my life in Cheadle Hulme

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sandbach was a station on the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, as was Cheadle Hulme.

 

[150222]

ROCHDALE also has 3 platforms but only 2 are in regular use.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sowerby Bridge is served by the Rochdale Canal, as is Rochdale

 

[150222]

HEBDEN BRIDGE also has the suffix 'Bridge'.