The "Name the Station" game

[A Challenge]

Cranbrook

 

[RJ21]

Clue 3: This station is served by East Midlands Trains.

 

[swt class 450]

Syston?

 

[A Challenge]

Chetnole

 

[martinsh]

Chetnole

er not served by EMT !!!

Matlock Bath ?

 

[RJ21]

Clue 4: This station has direct services to Newark Castle.

 

[A Challenge]

I missed the last page, and so thought my previous guess didn't post, and I missed the EMT clue.

 

[martinsh]

Ambergate ?

 

[RJ21]

I wonder what made you think of that, a possible mention in 'On the Slow Train', which was to be clue 5. Back to you.

 

[martinsh]

I wonder what made you think of that, a possible mention in 'On the Slow Train', which was to be clue 5. Back to you.

Of the few possible answers left, it was the only one I could think of that had some other distinctive feature.

Clue 1 : this station is north of Ambergate

 

[trainmania100]

Fort william

 

[RJ21]

Hazel Grove

 

[A Challenge]

Whatstandwell

 

[martinsh]

CLue 2 : this station is served by only 1 TOC, though at least one other TOC passes through without stopping

 

[A Challenge]

Goldthorpe

 

[RJ21]

Edinburgh Gateway?

 

[martinsh]

Clue 3 : this station has opened in the last 40 years

 

[A Challenge]

Swinton (SWN)

 

[martinsh]

Clue 4 : this station mainly has one train stopping in each direction per hour, but more than that pass through without stopping

 

[martinsh]

Still waiting for any guesses ...

 

[trainmania100]

No idea I'm afraid sorry

 

[RJ21]

Cottingley? Not the best of places to end up on a cold breezy day in February as I managed a few years ago.

 

[martinsh]

Cottingley?

is correct !

 

[RJ21]

If it wasn't for my ending up there I'd never have guessed that one, eventually I escaped to the relative safety of Dewsbury and the West Riding.

Clue 1: This station was opened before 1860.

 

[martinsh]

Crewe ?

 

[RJ21]

Clue 2: This station has 2 platforms, but at one point had four.

 

[martinsh]

Uttoxeter

 

[RJ21]

Clue 3: This station is DC electrified.

 

[RJ21]

Any guesses?

 

[martinsh]

Sunderland ?