The "Name the Station" game

[FQ]

Birmingham Moor Street?

 

[martinsh]

Clue 3 : this station is served by more than 2 TOCs

 

[Marton]

Crewe ?

 

[martinsh]

Clue 4 : This station has through trains to Barrow in Furness

(that's probably made it a lot easier !)

 

[Marton]

Carlisle?

 

[martinsh]

Clue 5 : you can see Giant Axe from this station

 

[Marton]

Lancaster?

 

[martinsh]

Lancaster?

Obviously

 

[Marton]

I am in England.

 

[FQ]

Rugby?

 

[Marton]

I have two platforms

 

[martinsh]

Nantwich

 

[Marton]

3. I have had 3 names.
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Do you want a 4th clue yet?
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This is going no where.

Clue 4. My first two names are the first part of a famous line on which I am NOT a station

 

[Trainfan344]

Not a clue.

 

[Buttsy]

Wigan North Western

 

[martinsh]

Furness Vale ?

 

[Marton]

Final clue. I share my current name with an English independent / public school founded in 1499.

 

[Buttsy]

Giggleswick

 

[Marton]

Correct.

Firstly it was settle. Then settle old. It has two platforms. The line is settle Carlisle and the school giggleswick.

Over to you.

 

[Buttsy]

1. I am in the former NSE area (the area valid using a Network card for younger members).

 

[FQ]

Andover?

 

[Buttsy]

2. I am north of the Thames.

 

[dzug2]

Kings Sutton

 

[Buttsy]

3. I am AC electrified

 

[Marton]

Hadley wood?

 

[martinsh]

Farringdon

 

[Buttsy]

4. I am a junction station

 

[martinsh]

Watford Junction

 

[Buttsy]

5. I used to be the major Inter-City station for the conurbation, but I was superceded in the 1980s.

 

[martinsh]

5. I used to be the major Inter-City station for the conurbation, but I was superceded in the 1980s.

Bletchley