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The "Name the Station" game

Robinson

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Clue 3: This station has direct links to 2 of the following cities: London, Manchester, Birmingham. The other one is a minimum of 1 change away.
 
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Robinson

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Clue 4: This station has 1 word in its name, but used to have another.
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I will give clue 5 and see if anyone has a flash of inspiration:

Clue 5: One of the TOCs which serves this station departs in one direction only.
 

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I'm at work, I don't get the time to check up on all the minutae of the service provision to each station. I'm just working on possibles, not probables, hence the guesswork.
 
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Trainfan344

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Clue 4: This station has 1 word in its name, but used to have another.
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I will give clue 5 and see if anyone has a flash of inspiration:

Clue 5: One of the TOCs which serves this station departs in one direction only.

Norwich

Fitted well but missed a vital clue
 

Trainfan344

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One guess per clue only
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And, thinking about it, that fouls clues 3 (Has services to exactly none of the three named citys), 4 (3 words) and 5 (implied by Robinson saying one of the ToCs

Which one you talking about?
 

Trainfan344

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Glasgow Queen Street.

Norwich also fouled clue 5, as well as the more obvious one of clue 1.

H is on the middle line,

Glasgow Queen Street, Virgin operate just south?
Services to London and Birmingham
one change to Manchester...
But yeah the one word does foul it.
 

gnolife

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H is on the middle line,

Glasgow Queen Street, Virgin operate just south?
Services to London and Birmingham
one change to Manchester...
But yeah the one word does foul it.
I may have quoted the wrong clue about Norwich - I meant the one about no direct service to the closest station servced by Gtr. Anglia.

Virgin, CrossCountry, East Coast and TransPennine Express services all depart from Glasgow Central, heading south from High Level. ScotRail are the only TOC to serve Glasgow Queen Street.
 

Trainfan344

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I may have quoted the wrong clue about Norwich - I meant the one about no direct service to the closest station servced by Gtr. Anglia.

Virgin, CrossCountry, East Coast and TransPennine Express services all depart from Glasgow Central, heading south from High Level. ScotRail are the only TOC to serve Glasgow Queen Street.

Ok, also i missed the clue about greater Anglia...
 

Robinson

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Glasgow Central also has direct services to Manchester, by the way.

clagmonster has made a very unfortunate error to not get it in clue 1. Had he omitted the word "Road" and left his answer at Derby he would have been the proud owner of 15 points.
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Clue 1: This station is in NSE-land.
 

Robinson

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I assume then that the TOC that only departs in one direction would be Northern?

Correct; I believe they operate just a single Nottingham-Sheffield service via Derby, with no corresponding southbound working.

Clue 2: This station is south of the Thames.
 

clagmonster

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Deptford?

I discarded Derby last time round because I had it in my head there was an early morning EMT service to Norwich. It seems this is no longer the case.
 

Robinson

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Clue 4: This station sees stopping and terminating services. The through services are all worked by the same class of train during normal operation.
 

clagmonster

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I considered a few like Slade Green, but I would imagine that both 465s and 466s, as well as possibly the new things (376s?) are booked to pass through.
 

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I don't know my units well enough, that's why I went for it, as I didn't know what runs there. It wasn't a very helpful clue unless you know the minutae of units.
 

clagmonster

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I am currently working out SR (I assume that is where we are) unit allocations, looking for possibilities. I am currently stumped, as I can only think of one geographic area which fits.
 

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