The "Name the Station" game

[martinsh]

Widnes

(Paul Simon wrote "Homeward Bound" there)

 

[Robinson]

Widnes is the correct answer.

 

[gnolife]

Widnes has services to TfGM, Miserytravel and South Yorkshire, and which other PTE area?

 

[Ivo]

Widnes has services to TfGM, Miserytravel and South Yorkshire, and which other PTE area?

West Yorkshire

There is a limited TPE service at Widnes.

 

[martinsh]

open floor

 

[Eagle]

This station is not served by any Stagecoach operator.

 

[gnolife]

You including Virmin and/or Stagecoach buses in that one?

Either way, my station, predictable as ever, will be Twerp.

 

[Eagle]

You including Virmin and/or Stagecoach buses in that one?

Yes and no. (Not knowing or having a list to hand of every rail station on a bus route of one of Stagecoach's 20-odd bus operators. :P)

 

[Trainfan344]

Lowestoft

 

[Robinson]

Assuming that managing the station doesn't count as serving it, Burton-on-Trent?

 

[clagmonster]

Willington?

 

[Eagle]

This station is in the East Midlands.

 

[clagmonster]

East Midlands is very loosely defined. Gainsborough Central?

 

[Eagle]

East Midlands is very loosely defined. Gainsborough Central?

I think you'll find that there is an official, precise definition of the East Midlands.


Clue 3: this station is part of a routeing point group.

 

[clagmonster]

I take it we are following the NUTS definition then. Stagecoach would disagree (they even have Hull in the East Midlands, which is absurd), many people have Scunny and Posh in.

At present, I am struggling to find a valid answer.

 

[gnolife]

I can only come up with two answers, looking at the EM rover map and the list of routeing point group stations. One of which is in Buckinghamshire, one of which is in Staffordshire. Neither of these are what are considerd by that Wikipedia to be East Midlands.

 

[Eagle]

Clue 4: this station is served by two TOCs, and a third TOC passes through without stopping.

 

[gnolife]

Bletchley?

 

[Eagle]

Bletchley is in Buckinghamshire, in the South East region.

 

[gnolife]

Bletchley is in Buckinghamshire, in the South East region.

Yah, but you seem to be missing the point I was trying to get across in my last point - I think that there is nowhere in the East Midlands region as you've defined it that fits your clues. I've therefore gone for somewhere in the valid area of the East Midlands Rover.

I've found the following stations in the East Midlands Rover area, which covers the entirety of the East Midlands (except between Disley and Buxton), and a little bit more, that are also members of routing point groups
Bletchley
Milton Keynes Central - Served by Virgin
Belper - Served by East Midlands Trains
Derby - Served by East Midlands Trains
Duffield - Served by East Midlands Trains
Long Eaton - Served by East Midlands Trains
Peartree - Served by East Midlands Trains
Spondon - Served by East Midlands Trains
Barrow-upon-Soar - Served by East Midlands Trains
Loughborough - Served by East Midlands Trains
Sileby - Served by East Midlands Trains
Newark Castle - Served by East Midlands Trains
Newark North Gate - Served by East Midlands Trains
Attenborough - Served by East Midlands Trains
Beeston - Served by East Midlands Trains
Nottingham - Served by East Midlands Trains
Dore and Totley - Served by East Midlands Trains
Sheffield - Served by East Midlands Trains
Norton Bridge
Stafford - Served by Virgin.

Norton Bridge and Bletchley are not in the East Midlands area as you've defined it. I therefore think that you've given a duff set of clues.

 

[Eagle]

Nope, my clues check out. Not every station in the East Midlands Region is covered by the East Midlands Rover.

Clue 5: This station is managed by Chiltern Railways.

 

[gnolife]

King's Sutton?

 

[Eagle]

Correct!

 

[gnolife]

1) This station is south of the River Tame (The one that forms the River Mersey)

 

[Eagle]

Haddenham and Thame.

 

[gnolife]

2) This station is not electrified.

 

[Eagle]

Lympstone Commando.

 

[gnolife]

3) This station is on a route that is well known on here for being overcrowded for at least part of the journey.

 

[Temple Meads]

Avonmouth?

(The daytime Severn Beach line services I've been on have always been very busy)

 

[gnolife]

4) This station is managed by First Great Western.