The "Name the Station" game

[Eagle]

Not a city!

 

[gnolife]

London Fenchurch Street

 

[Eagle]

4: This station typically has an hourly service in each direction.
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No takers?

5: Trains built in Japan pass through this station without stopping.

 

[Buttsy]

The only place I can possibly think of is Maidstone Barracks

 

[Eagle]

Not in a city.

 

[Buttsy]

Not in a city.

That's was what I thought

 

[Eagle]

Do we give up?
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It was Chestfield and Swalecliffe.

Open floor.

 

[gnolife]

I've never even heard of it!

1) This stations name do not start with any letter appearing in Derby Road or Twerp.

 

[Temple Meads]

Carnforth?

By "Twerp" do you mean simply the word "Twerp", or also the station that became it?

 

[gnolife]

Just the word Twerp. It may or may not start with one of the letters found in Thorpe Bay that is not otherwise excluded

Clue 2) This station has both diesel and electric services in an average off-peak hour.

 

[SprinterMan]

Marks Tey

 

[Eagle]

Southampton Airport Parkway.

 

[gnolife]

3) All diesel services stopping in the average hour are provided by one TOC, all electric services by another.

 

[Eagle]

Longport.

 

[gnolife]

4) Two words in the English dictionary appear in this stations name

For the purpose of this clue, ignore the possibilty of plurals. Also, for verbs only consider, for example 'hop' as as opposed to 'hopping' or 'hopped'.

 

[Eagle]

Do you mean as individual words (like Birmingham Snow Hill), or as parts of word(s) of the station's name (like Manchester Piccadilly)?

 

[gnolife]

I'm afraid I don't want to state that one. It could be like either of those you mention, or it could be a mashup of the two (like salFORD CENTRAL - I've capitalised the relevant parts as I can't do colour easily from my mobile)
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Oh, and one thing that I would like to add - both words that I referred to have at least 3 letters.

 

[Eagle]

Southport.

 

[Buttsy]

Do we give up?
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It was Chestfield and Swalecliffe.

Open floor.

I'm going to call 'foul' on this: clue 2 was:

2: This station is within the bounds of a city.

However, I cannot find confirmation that Whitstable is a city as defined by statue.

 

[Trainfan344]

I'm going to call 'foul' on this: clue 2 was: However, I cannot find confirmation that Whitstable is a city as defined by statue.

Do we give up?
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It was Chestfield and Swalecliffe.

Open floor.

It's not, i had to wikipedia it, and while it's local authority is the city of Canterbury, the station is in the Village of Swalecliffe

 

[gnolife]

This station had a ramp to one platform built this year. It was finished abiut 4 months behind schedule

 

[Eagle]

I'm going to call 'foul' on this: clue 2 was: However, I cannot find confirmation that Whitstable is a city as defined by statue.

It's not in Whitstable, it's in the City of Canterbury.

That's why I specifically said "within the boundaries of a city". Which it undeniably is.

 

[Robinson]

No idea about clue 5, but Southall?

 

[Buttsy]

It's not in Whitstable, it's in the City of Canterbury.

That's why I specifically said "within the boundaries of a city". Which it undeniably is.

Being extremely pedantic (), it depends on your definition of city boundaries. I concur that it is within the District of Canterbury, but city boundaries can be differently defined. You would say that Paddington is in the city of London, however, it technically isn't in the boundaries of the City of London... Pendantic I know.

Gripe over.
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Hitchin?

 

[gnolife]

The answer I wanted was Heald Green.

 

[Buttsy]

The answer I wanted was Heald Green.

Your first clue confused me as I was looking for a station with NO letters from Twerp or Derby Road in...

 

[gnolife]

I'm sorry, I thought that, despite me making a pigs ear of the grammar in the clue, I'd made it clear that I only wanted the starting letter. Incidentally, under your interpretation of that clue, Hitchin wouldn't have worked.

 

[Buttsy]

I'm sorry, I thought that, despite me making a pigs ear of the grammar in the clue, I'd made it clear that I only wanted the starting letter. Incidentally, under your interpretation of that clue, Hitchin wouldn't have worked.

Fair call, but I was struggling bearing in mind my incorrect interpretation of the clue...

 

[Robinson]

The answer I wanted was Heald Green.

Gah I ruled that out as I thought NT still had regular diesel service stopping there... :roll:
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I'm sorry, I thought that, despite me making a pigs ear of the grammar in the clue, I'd made it clear that I only wanted the starting letter. Incidentally, under your interpretation of that clue, Hitchin wouldn't have worked.

Actually, more to the point, which TOC provides diesel services from Hitchin?

 

[gnolife]

NT run infrequent diesel services, such as a Liverpool train at around half 7 and a Southport at around ten past 8, plus the Airport shuttle might get a diesel replacement for the 323, although there are other diagrams which will get replaced first (the Alderley Edges, then the Crewe via Stockports)

Anyway, for your next station
This station is not in a PTE area. For the purpose of this clue, any station at which Oyster can be used is in a PTE area.