The "Name the Station" game

[DanNCL]

Clue 3: This station is a request stop

 

[TT-ONR-NRN]

Denton

 

[DanNCL]

Clue 4: Some services at this station are hauled by Class 37s

 

[TT-ONR-NRN]

Bootle

 

[DanNCL]

Clue 5: This station's name starts and ends with the same vowel
(not the most obvious clue; but there is only one station that this can be)

 

[TT-ONR-NRN]

Aspatria

 

[DanNCL]

Aspatria

Over to you (not as difficult as last time please! )

 

[TT-ONR-NRN]

Open floor

 

[London Trains]

Clue 1: This station is not served by a Stagecoach or First owned Company.

 

[DanNCL]

Sunderland

 

[TT-ONR-NRN]

VTEC serve Sunderland, they are a Stagecoach owned company

Sutton

 

[DanNCL]

Oh blast I forgot about their stupidly early southbound/stupidly late return service

 

[London Trains]

Clue 2: This station has extra peak services to/from a different London terminal than the regular services.

 

[TT-ONR-NRN]

Cor, um. Gatwick Airport?

 

[DanNCL]

Ashford International

 

[London Trains]

Clue 1: This station is not served by a Stagecoach or First owned Company.
Clue 2: This station has extra peak services to/from a different London terminal than the regular services.
Clue 3: This station is not served by SWR but has services that stop at more than 2 SWR stations.

 

[Harbouring]

Chichester?

 

[DanNCL]

Warblington

 

[TT-ONR-NRN]

Chichester?

Chichester is served by First.

East Croydon

 

[London Trains]

Clue 1: This station is not served by a Stagecoach or First owned Company.
Clue 2: This station has extra peak services to/from a different London terminal than the regular services.
Clue 3: This station is not served by SWR but has services that stop at more than 2 SWR stations.
Clue 4: This station is on what used to be the mainline to the South Coast before the route via Gatwick was built.

 

[DanNCL]

Horsham

 

[Harbouring]

Ewell east

 

[martinsh]

Clue 4: This station is on what used to be the mainline to the South Coast before the route via Gatwick was built.

Well, I'm sorry but the route via Gatwick was the FIRST line to be built between London & the South Coast ! Brighton station opened in 1840. [ Gatwick of course didn't exist then, but the line still went through the location ]

 

[godfreycomplex]

Ockley?

 

[DanNCL]

@London Trains can we have the next clue please?

 

[A Challenge]

Warnham?

 

[TT-ONR-NRN]

Faygate?

 

[A Challenge]

If the first route was via Gatwick then Faygate is on that route, not the other line meant

 

[London Trains]

Clue 1: This station is not served by a Stagecoach or First owned Company.
Clue 2: This station has extra peak services to/from a different London terminal than the regular services.
Clue 3: This station is not served by SWR but has services that stop at more than 2 SWR stations.
Clue 4: This station is on what used to be
the mainline to the South Coast before the route via Gatwick was built.

Clue 5: This station has an unusually large gap between the platforms as fast lines used to go through the station but have been removed.

 

[London Trains]

Well, I'm sorry but the route via Gatwick was the FIRST line to be built between London & the South Coast ! Brighton station opened in 1840. [ Gatwick of course didn't exist then, but the line still went through the location ]

Nope, the first was the route via Sutton and Horsham