Station association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Surbiton is a four platform station managed by South West Trains, as is Southampton Central

 

[Eagle]

Surbiton opened as Kingston

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Twickenham is a three platform station managed by South West Trains, as is Kingston.

 

[Ivo]

Wembley Stadium is also the nearest station to a major national stadium.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tyseley station is near to a DMU depot, similar to Wembley Stadium.

 

[Ivo]

Tutbury and Hatton

Although not spelt as such, the correct pronunciation of Tyseley features an item of clothing (if admittedly a rather unessential one). By contrast, many stations, such as Tutbury and Hatton, have such an article as an obvious part of their name.

 

[Class172]

Tutbury and Hatton

Although not spelt as such, the correct pronunciation of Tyseley features an item of clothing (if admittedly a rather unessential one). By contrast, many stations, such as Tutbury and Hatton, have such an article as an obvious part of their name.

Clever.

Stoke-on-Trent and Tutbury and Hatton both are served by EMT.

 

[gnolife]

Stoke and Lichfield (Trent Valley) are 3 platform stations that have terminating services using one platform and throughs using the other 2

 

[Ivo]

St Albans Abbey. Another rare example of a station whose counterpart in its settlement, which also happens to have a better service to the local major centre, has the suffix "City".

 

[Eagle]

Hertford East is also a terminus nearby another through station, the combination of which isn't treated as a routeing point in the RG.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Oulton Broad North was served by services run by the Great Eastern Railway and is a 2 platform station managed by National Express East Anglia, as is the case with Hertford East.

 

[Ivo]

Abercynon

This station was formerly Abercynon South. At that time, Abercynon was another very small example of a settlement to have both North and South.

 

[12CSVT]

Rugeley Trent Valley is at the start of a former freight only line which now has a passenger service

 

[Eagle]

Brockenhurst is another junction station opened in 1847.

 

[Temple Meads]

Yeovil Junction also sees direct trains to London Waterloo.

 

[Ivo]

Burscough Junction is another station that in practice doesn't really need the suffix "Junction" any more, but would still need a suffix to differentiate between it and another staion on a different line nearby.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Deleted...far too slow

 

[Eagle]

Burscough Junction is another station that in practice doesn't really need the suffix "Junction" any more, but would still need a suffix to differentiate between it and another staion on a different line nearby.

Yeovil Junction is still a junction though; there's track between it and Pen Mill which only sees use when FGW are diverted around Taunton. Goco wanted to add this bit of track to their service (in addition to Melksham and the Didcot west curve; trying to get as many unusual lines as possible, it seems...) but they had to hack back to Westbury.

 

[Ivo]

I know, but given that the line is only used for diversions I thought it would go quite well. I wanted to give an interesting response, and not "Yeovil Pen Mill".

 

[Temple Meads]

If we're going to to discuss this, maybe we should start a new thread about it, rather than clogging up the quiz.

So...

The first station south of Islip starts with the letter "O" (Oxford) like Burscough Junction with Ormskirk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Croston is a single platform station, as is Islip

 

[Eagle]

Islip rhymes with West Ruislip (and come 2013 it's possible that there'll be direct trains between the two).

 

[Temple Meads]

I am now lost...besides being too slow

What is the station with which we now have to make an association with?

Always the station in bold in my posts in these quizzes, is the one to use
In that case Islip.

 

[Ivo]

You missed one! It's West Ruislip.

Birmingham Snow Hill, at the other end of the line through West Ruislip, also serves as an interchange with a local rail system (albeit it a larger station and the local system being far less significant than LUL!).

 

[MidnightFlyer]

You missed one! It's West Ruislip.

Birmingham Snow Hill, at the other end of the line through West Ruislip, also serves as an interchange with a local rail system (albeit it a larger station and the local system being far less significant than LUL!).

LUL is heavy rail

Sunderland - another 'weathery' station

 

[Eagle]

Old Street is also underground with both National Rail and metro services.

 

[Ivo]

I know LUL is heavy rail, but it's still a local non-NR system isn't it?

Birmingham New Street. Why not? The sad thing is, "Old" Street is much nicer than "New" Street.

Ouch, my last two answers have been Snow Hill and New Street :?

 

[12CSVT]

St Pancras International caters more for shoppers than it does for rail passengers

 

[Class172]

Stratford International and St Pancras International will both have international, domestic and underground services.

 

[Eagle]

Stratford International and St Pancreas International will both have international, domestic and underground services.

Observe the difference:
P-A-N-C-R-E-A-S (the organ)

Saint P-A-N-C-R-A-S (the Roman Christian)

Always annoys me when people confuse the two (I've even heard people from London do it), but that's for another thread.

Pewsey was also almost entirely served by InterCity before privatization.