The "Name the Station" game

[Buttsy]

Radley

 

[Robinson]

Clue 2: This station is not in the former NSE area, but it is possible to reach at least one station in the former NSE area direct from this station.

 

[CallySleeper]

Durham

 

[Robinson]

Durham

Is served by HSTs and 91s, so fails clue 1.

 

[CallySleeper]

Is served by HSTs and 91s, so fails clue 1.

Forgot about clue 1

 

[Trainfan344]

Birmingham New Street.

 

[Robinson]

Birmingham New Street.

Also served by HSTs

 

[gnolife]

Macclesfield

 

[Robinson]

Clue 3: This station handles stopping, passing and terminating services.

 

[Buttsy]

Milton Keynes Central?
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Oh b****r, it can't be - ScotRail sleepers... Dammit!

 

[gnolife]

Milton Keynes Central?
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Oh b****r, it can't be - ScotRail sleepers... Dammit!

Sleeper stops at Watford, not MK.

Oxenholme Lake District

 

[Robinson]

Clue 4: This station has at least as many TOCs serving it as it has platforms.

 

[gnolife]

Wilmslow

 

[Robinson]

Clue 5: The station is served by precisely 2 types of traction, of which 1 can only be used by terminating services.

 

[gnolife]

Deansgate

 

[Robinson]

I must confess I didn't realise Deansgate still got EMUs serving it, so my apologies for that

The answer I was looking for was Hunts Cross.
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Clue 1: This station has more platforms than TOCs serving it.

 

[CallySleeper]

Mansfield Woodhouse

 

[Trainfan344]

Cambridge

 

[gnolife]

Chesterfield

 

[clagmonster]

Hunts Cross?

Dan, can electric trains not run through to the Old Trafford Halt from Deansgate?

 

[gnolife]

Hunts Cross?

Dan, can electric trains not run through to the Old Trafford Halt from Deansgate?

Not now that the football season is over.

 

[clagmonster]

Oops, I've missed a page. So not only have I worked out the answer and realised that I don't get any points for it, I have now lost a point for a response that does not satisfy clue 1. That'll teach me.

 

[gnolife]

Hunts Cross?

Dan, can electric trains not run through to the Old Trafford Halt from Deansgate?

And theres 3 tocs anx 3 platforms at Hunts X

 

[clagmonster]

Not now that the football season is over.

The clue sad 'can', not 'do'. It would be perfectly possible, though not neccesarily sensible, for Northern to run an EMU service through to the halt.

 

[gnolife]

The clue sad 'can', not 'do'. It would be perfectly possible, though not neccesarily sensible, for Northern to run an EMU service through to the halt.

I'm reading the clue differently to you then - I'm reading it as the non terminating stuff cant use it.

 

[Robinson]

Clue 2: This station is in the former NSE area.

 

[clagmonster]

Liverpon Liverpool Street?
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Typing error there (computer momentarily froze), that should read 'London Liverpool Street'.

 

[CallySleeper]

Finsbury Park

 

[gnolife]

Belvedere

 

[Robinson]

Clue 3: This station would have scored a point on the most recent London Challenge.
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Belvedere

Bloody stupid Belvedere vandals