The "Name the Station" game

[Buttsy]

Correct.

Apologies for the ambiguous clue, I didn't think of Gary's interpretation. The intention was for it to be the closest station to a particular football league ground, in this case Fratton Park. I would suggest the closest station to any football league ground would be the Manchester United Halt at Old Trafford, the closest with a regular service would probably be Falmer or Horwich Parkway, unless I am missing one (how close is St. James Park, I require the ground tick having somehow missed it when Hull City AFC were in the fourth division).

Good call with St James's Park, I'd say that was the closest by some distance.

 

[martinsh]

Clue 3 : this station has services departing at least every 10 mins on weekday daytimes.

 

[PermitToTravel]

Swinton SY?

 

[martinsh]

Clue 4 : this station has the same name as another station (in another part of the country) which has closed in the last 30 years.

 

[Darren R]

Is it Grangetown?

 

[martinsh]

Grangetown (Cardiff) is correct. It has 8 departures each way per hour.

[ Grangetown (Middlesborough) closed in 1991 ]

 

[Darren R]

Woohoo!

Open Floor

 

[PermitToTravel]

I'll bite

Clue 1: I am to the North and East of London Victoria station

 

[martinsh]

Charing Cross

 

[Buttsy]

Lowestoft

 

[PermitToTravel]

Clue 2: I have direct trains to one London Terminal.

 

[Buttsy]

Chelmsford

 

[PermitToTravel]

Clue 3: I have direct services to an airport, but there are airports closer to me than this one which I do not have direct services to.

 

[Buttsy]

Cleethorpes

I reckon that this is the station furthest north that is still east of Victoria. It also meets clue 3.

 

[PermitToTravel]

Cleethorpes doesn't have direct trains to a London terminal!

 

[Buttsy]

Cleethorpes doesn't have direct trains to a London terminal!

Oops!

 

[PermitToTravel]

I appear to have killed this game, sorry

An easier next clue than I had planned:
Clue 4: I have terminal platforms.

 

[Buttsy]

Norwich?

 

[johnnychips]

Norwich?

This one's confusing me. Does Norwich have direct trains to an airport (Stansted?) while being nearer to Norwich airport? But the questioner said nearer to airports. I was thinking of Tottenham Hale until it had to have terminal platforms.

 

[clagmonster]

I wondered about that, but I'm not sure whether Allerton and Ratcliffe East Midlands Airport Parkway really count as airports, seeing as they are a bus/taxi ride away. That said, all my other ideas involve one of them as the airport.

 

[Buttsy]

I think it has trains to Liverpool South Parkway which just counts as an 'airport' connection.

 

[clagmonster]

I will await clarification on such stations (its still Allerton to me) airport connectivity for the purpose of the clue before posting my idea.
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I think it has trains to Liverpool South Parkway which just counts as an 'airport' connection.

Yes, I think the Norwich-Liverpools stop at Allerton these days. I think there may be a couple booked to go Syston curve and call at the new shack at Ratcliffe for taxis to East Mids too.

 

[johnnychips]

Oh, of course EMT! You could be right.

 

[PermitToTravel]

It's not Norwich, but I would count any of those as an airport.

Clue 5: I do not have any through platforms

 

[Buttsy]

Stansted Airport

 

[PermitToTravel]

Thinking outside the box! I like it!

True, Stansted Airport does not have direct services to its nearest airport station, Stansted Airport... it wasn't the answer I was looking for, but it's that type of thinking that you need.

Am I meant to reveal the answer now, or should I give a sixth clue?

 

[johnnychips]

No give another clue!

 

[PermitToTravel]

Clue 6: I am only served by one TOC.

 

[Trainfan344]

Your are meant to allow a reasonable ammount of time before revealing the awnser

 

[PermitToTravel]

Not to worry, I shan't give any more input tonight (unless I'm asked for clarification).