The "Name the Station" game

[martinsh]

Dunbar

 

[Quakkerillo]

Livingston North

 

[swt class 450]

Acton Main Line?

 

[Robinson]

Clue 3: All trains normally scheduled to call at this station are run by one TOC, which also manages the station.

 

[RJ21]

Diss?

 

[swt class 450]

Watton At Stone?

 

[Robinson]

Clue 4: This is a 2-platform station situated on the slow lines of a 4-tracked section.

 

[swt class 450]

Arlesey?

 

[Robinson]

Clue 5: This station contains the name of the settlement it serves plus a suffix, The suffix was included when the station reopened in anticipation of the possibility of a new station opening on the site of another former station nearby, to avoid a future name change. That station did in fact open but was not given the name that was then expected.

Hope that's not too complicated...

 

[DasLunatic]

Clarification: Gidea Park technically has four platforms, but only two (the Up and Down Electric) are ever used. Does this count?

 

[Robinson]

It counts if the other 2 could never be used in, say, an emergency situation, otherwise no.

 

[martinsh]

Euxton Balshaw Lane ?

 

[RJ21]

I kept coming back to that one but Balshaw Lane to me isn't really a suffix, it's a descriptor. A suffix (ignoring the strict dictionary definition of one which is for example -d on close to get closed or -ly on eager for eagerly) would be a compass point, central, town etc and just a single word. However reading the wiki entry for EBA I can see that Balshaw Lane was added for the reason given in clue 5, so I'd go with it, I just got a little too hung up on what constitutes a suffix, after all, it's a game we're playing.

 

[Robinson]

Euxton Balshaw Lane is correct.

 

[martinsh]

I kept coming back to that one but Balshaw Lane to me isn't really a suffix, it's a descriptor.

I know what you mean. I initially rejected EBA as well - but then realised there are very few reopened stations on 4 track lines !

Clue 1 : this station is south of Northallerton

 

[swt class 450]

Flitwick?

 

[trainmania100]

Luton Airport Parkway

 

[TrainLover121]

Corby (Could be one of like a thousand so i'm just guessing atm)

 

[RJ21]

Thirsk?

 

[DasLunatic]

Llandudno

 

[godfreycomplex]

Ruskington?

 

[Robinson]

Burley Park?

 

[martinsh]

Clue 2 : this station is DC electrified

 

[swt class 450]

Bat & Ball?

 

[RJ21]

Ormskirk?

 

[martinsh]

Clue 3 : this station has 3 platforms

 

[swt class 450]

Paddock Wood?

 

[godfreycomplex]

Haslemere?

 

[Quakkerillo]

St Margarets?

 

[Springs Branch]

Birkenhead Hamilton Square