The "Name the Station" game

[Ivo]

Lincoln

 

[andrew bell]

Clue 5 This station is served by 1 of the TOCs mainly during peak hours or the extremities of the day

 

[gnolife]

Wakefield Westgate (Northern, East Coast, DB Arriva Cross Country)?

Westgate also gets evening EMT services going to Leeds (so they can get to Neville Hill).

I think I'll suggest Man Airport though (Northern, TPX and ATW, with ATW being the one at the extremities)
Edinbugh is the direct capital, change at Manchester, Stockport, WIlmslow or Crewe for London or Cardiff.

 

[andrew bell]

The correct station I was looking for is Nuneaton

I'm leaving the floor free for someone else to have a crack at

 

[gnolife]

Well, since the floor's open

This station is not within the Network Railcard area. (1)

 

[Ivo]

Stone

 

[gnolife]

Not Stone.
This train is operated by London Midland. (2)

 

[Ivo]

Aww, that disappointing. I could well be close to having had a 15 only to have blown it

Anyhow, Rugeley Town?

 

[gnolife]

Not Rugeley Town.

This station is served by 3 TOCs (3)

Oh, and that clue two was a badly scrambled mess. It was supposed to read "this station is managed by London Midland"

 

[Ivo]

Tamworth

Open Floor if I call this station correctly at some point. I'm off to bed very soon. I have a seminar at 11.

 

[gnolife]

Not Tamworth.
This station is in the West Midlands PTE area(4)

 

[Ivo]

Smethwick Galton Bridge

Following the cue of "Tamworth/Smethwick" from earlier (not intentionally though)...

 

[gnolife]

Smethwick Galton Bridge is the correct answer.

 

[Temple Meads]

I'll take the floor:

1) This station is electrified.

 

[clagmonster]

Bidston?

 

[gnolife]

Heaton Chapel

 

[andrew bell]

Birmingham International

 

[Temple Meads]

Neither..

2) This station is south of Bristol.

 

[clagmonster]

I think we're going to have to tread rather carefully to avoid going too far north and lose a point here. Weymouth?

 

[andrew bell]

I gather electrified includes 3rd rail? If so Haywards Heath

 

[Ivo]

I gather electrified includes 3rd rail? If so Haywards Heath

He didn't specify otherwise, so we would have to assume as much. All stations south of Bristol that are electrified are at least partly DC; indeed, by my reckoning, only Ashford International is not exclusively DC. (Ebbsfleet International and Tilbury Town are the next most southerly.)

Anyhow, my answer: Haslemere

 

[andrew bell]

Thats ok, I just didn't want a points penalty for saying a station in 3rd rail land

 

[Temple Meads]

None of those stations..

Clue 3: This station has direct services with Southampton Central.

 

[andrew bell]

Brighton

 

[Ivo]

It has direct services with Southampton Central? How does that work? :?

Anyhow, let's go for Farnborough.

 

[Robinson]

Ealing Broadway.

****, I must have been looking at the wrong page there. That'll be a point off I guess

 

[Ivo]

Ealing Broadway.

How does that work? hock:

Actually, never mind, he answered that himself. Sorry - it is. If you can prove it was posted in the wrong thread, I allow such mistakes. But not where you're looking at the wrong page, because it is still an answer intended for Name the Station.

 

[gnolife]

Upwey?

 

[Temple Meads]

It has direct services with Southampton Central? How does that work? :?.

I meant direct services to Southampton Central of course

This station is served by SWT, XC and Southern.

 

[Ivo]

I can only think of four stations that match that clue. Of those, one has no direct service to Southampton Central, as far as I know anyway, and the other is Southampton Central.

I shall choose the more obvious of the two that are left: Southampton Airport Parkway.