The Journey Game

[gnolife]

Reading to Wolverhampton?

 

[Trainfan344]

Reading to Wolverhampton?

Still incorrect, prehaps i should expand on Clue 2: When i say not in order, i mean the platforms do not follow the order the first platform is one, the second platform is two etc, prehaps this will help people

 

[gnolife]

Still incorrect, prehaps i should expand on Clue 2: When i say not in order, i mean the platforms do not follow the order the first platform is one, the second platform is two etc, prehaps this will help people

And you need to give another clue as well

 

[Trainfan344]

And you need to give another clue as well

have edited the post all ready, but the 5th clue is: From the train we view A park and ride site and a power station

 

[gnolife]

have edited the post all ready, but the 5th clue is: From the train we view A park and ride site and a power station

London St Pancras to Leeds?

 

[Trainfan344]

London St Pancras to Leeds?

no, that's incorrect..

 

[gnolife]

no, that's incorrect..

We need another clue then

 

[Trainfan344]

Clue 6: This Journey involves two Swing-bridges.

 

[Welshman]

I first thought of Birmingham-Cambridge.
The start is electrified.
The park & ride is Coleshill Parkway.
The power station would be Nechells, perhaps.
The traction is Cl170s
The semaphores are around Melton Mowbray/Oakham
The platforms at Cambridge are not numbered in numerical order.

Then you added the clue re swing-bridges. Are there any such between Birmingham and Cambridge?

So I then thought of London Kings Cross-Hull.
The start is electrified.
Stevenage was intended as a park & ride for the M25.
There are Trent Valley power stations visible from the EC line between Newark and Retford.
The traction is Cl.180s
There are, I believe, one or two semaphores remaining around Brough.
Hull seems to be missing a platform 1.
There is one swing bridge at Selby, and one on the Doncaster-Hull route via Goole, which is sometimes used as a diversionary route. Is there one on the approaches to Hull?

 

[Trainfan344]

I first thought of Birmingham-Cambridge.
The start is electrified.
The park & ride is Coleshill Parkway.
The power station would be Nechells, perhaps.
The traction is Cl170s
The semaphores are around Melton Mowbray/Oakham
The platforms at Cambridge are not numbered in numerical order.

Then you added the clue re swing-bridges. Are there any such between Birmingham and Cambridge?

So I then thought of London Kings Cross-Hull.
The start is electrified.
Stevenage was intended as a park & ride for the M25.
There are Trent Valley power stations visible from the EC line between Newark and Retford.
The traction is Cl.180s
There are, I believe, one or two semaphores remaining around Brough.
Hull seems to be missing a platform 1.
There is one swing bridge at Selby, and one on the Doncaster-Hull route via Goole, which is sometimes used as a diversionary route. Is there one on the approaches to Hull?

Even so, this is an incorrect awnser.
Clue 7: The park and ride site passed isn't an actual station.
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Since we have gone 24 hours without a correct answer i am declaring this round over, the answer i was seeking was Norwich to Lowestoft:

The starting station for this journey is electrified Norwich is Electrified
The Finishing point for this journey has Platforms which are not in order. Lowestoft is missing a platform 1
The Rolling stock is of the Diesel variety all services are provided by DMU's
While on this journey, we pass at least one set of Semaphores There are semaphores in Lowestoft and at Reedham
From the train we view a Park and Ride site and a Power station. Postwick Park and ride site for norwich is passed on our way, and we pass Cantley power station
This Journey involves two Swing-bridges. Reedham and Somerlayton
The Park and Ride site is not a Railway station.

 

[dzug2]

The Finishing point for this journey has Platforms which are not in order. Lowestoft is missing a platform 1


Not a very satisfactory clue - the platforms it has got are in order.

This quiz does seem to attract dodgy clues. Multiple possible answers - OK - but multiple interpretations isn't IMV

 

[gnolife]

Assuming that the floor is open

This journey starts at a large station with more terminal platforms than throughs
This journey ends at a large station where lots of lines converge
We do not call at any intermediate stations
On the journey, we pass at least one building associated with physics
The service we are on, while under the wires for the part of it that we are on, continues to places without AC electrification after we alight.

 

[dzug2]

I think we are travelling from Manchester Piccadilly to Crewe on the 0511 XC service to Bournemouth. Jodrell Bank being the (astro) physics association

 

[gnolife]

I think we are travelling from Manchester Piccadilly to Crewe on the 0511 XC service to Bournemouth. Jodrell Bank being the (astro) physics association

I think you might be right

 

[dzug2]

1. This journey starts at an unstaffed halt served by 3 TOCs

2. It is possible as a through journey only in one direction

3. It is operated by DMUs though it passes through 4 separate electrified areas, the destination station being in the fourth

4. It's possible to reach the destination station earlier departing on the same train and changing en route to a different route

 

[gnolife]

I think we might be going from Stonehaven to Birmingham New Street on the 08:20 XC departure from Aberdeen

 

[dzug2]

I think we might be going from Stonehaven to Birmingham New Street on the 08:20 XC departure from Aberdeen

Nope

The starting station is not in Scotland

 

[gnolife]

Are we going from Howden to Liverpool Lime Street on a TPX 170?

 

[dzug2]

Are we going from Howden to Liverpool Lime Street on a TPX 170?

No

the starting station used to be a junction with lines going off in two directions
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Time for another clue

From the new timetable next month the starting station will have a through service to London. Not for the first tiime, but it hasn't had one for a while.

 

[Trainfan344]

The Finishing point for this journey has Platforms which are not in order. Lowestoft is missing a platform 1


Not a very satisfactory clue - the platforms it has got are in order.

This quiz does seem to attract dodgy clues. Multiple possible answers - OK - but multiple interpretations isn't IMV

If you look, i did add an additional bit below about what i meant by that clue.

 

[dzug2]

If you look, i did add an additional bit below about what i meant by that clue.

Yes I did see that - and still didn't cotton on - sorry. I was fixated by Oxford where the order is 3-1-2 and looking unsuccessfully for other examples whre numbers are out of order rather than just missing
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This seems to be getting nowhere

One last clue before abandoning it: Sonic2009 might find this an easy one
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1. This journey starts at an unstaffed halt served by 3 TOCs

2. It is possible as a through journey only in one direction

3. It is operated by DMUs though it passes through 4 separate electrified areas, the destination station being in the fourth

4. It's possible to reach the destination station earlier departing on the same train and changing en route to a different route

OK the answer - the 0728 from Ashchurch for Tewkesbury to Stansted Airport

Unstaffed, served by XC, FGW and (once a week) LM

170's I think, passing through the Birmingham area, Nuneaton Peterborough and Cambridge

If you change at Brum and travel via London you get to Stansted about 15 minutes earlier

there were branch lines to Malvern and Redditch

the 0521 Great Malvern to Paddington will be calling in the next timetable

and Sonic is from the area and has posted about using the station


Open Floor

 

[gnolife]

I thought that XC called at a seperate unelectrified pair of platforms at Nuneaton.

Anyway, I'll take floor

This journey starts at an AC electrified station where most services are diesel operated.
This journey ends at a single track branch terminus
This journey is Diesel operated.
This train divides en route.

 

[dzug2]

I thought that XC called at a seperate unelectrified pair of platforms at Nuneaton.

.

I wasn't sure but thought I'd worded it vaguely enough not to matter


Manchester Piccadilly to Windermere by TPE?

 

[gnolife]

Nope. One terminal is served exclusively by this class of train
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Another clue: Most trains to the terminal station start at a 3 platform electrified station.

 

[Track Basher]

I was going to say Preston - Ormskirk

 

[gnolife]

The branch line that the terminal station is on has at least 1 request stop
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I'm going to put this down as a lost cause

The answer I wanted was Manchester Airport to Windermere
MIA has three EMUS, and at least 7 DMUs departing in each hour
Windermere as a single track branch terminal is self explanatory
185 operated.
The service in particular that I was thinking of, the 08:29 off MIA divides at Preston with a portion going to Blackpool North. Theres also a 16:00, divides at Preston with a portion for Edinburgh Waverley.
Most trains to Windermere start at Oxenholme
Burneside (Cumbria) and Staveley are request stops.

Floor Open

 

[Trainfan344]

My turn

• Clue 1: This is an Electric Service
• Clue 2: Only one terminus has overhead AC wires
• Clue 3: This Service was changed a few months ago
• Clue 4: This service continues from where this journey ends

 

[gnolife]

Sevenoaks to London St Pancras?

 

[Trainfan344]

Sevenoaks to London St Pancras?

Nope.

 

[gnolife]

You need to give another clue.