The "Name the Station" game

[RDP]

Not Marlow.

Clue 2: It is served by one TOC.

 

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Pilning?

 

[RDP]

Not Pilning

Clue 3: It is on an unelectrified line.

 

[PGAT]

Cowden?

 

[RDP]

Not Cowden.

Clue 4: This station has through trains to London.

 

[-Colly405-]

Crewkerne

 

[RDP]

Not Crewkerne. This should give it away.

Clue 5: This is a terminus which replaced what was formerly a through station on a nearby site.

 

[-Colly405-]

Uckfield?

 

[RDP]

Uckfield?

That's the one. The present station, dating from May 1991, being on the opposite side of the High Street to the original which ceased to be a through station in 1969 following closure of the line to Lewes.

Your turn.

 

[-Colly405-]

A similar start to the last one...

1. This station has one platform.

 

[Y Ddraig Coch]

Sugar Loaf

 

[-Colly405-]

Nope!

2. This station is served by one train operator

 

[Y Ddraig Coch]

Burnley Central ?

 

[-Colly405-]

Nope!

3. This station is not electrified

 

[Y Ddraig Coch]

Pont-Y-Pant

 

[-Colly405-]

Nope!
This might narrow it down

4. There are no direct trains from here to the nearest City

 

[Y Ddraig Coch]

Blaenau Ffestiniog

 

[D6130]

Barrow Haven?

 

[-Colly405-]

Nope.

5. 2008 saw the start of passenger trains heading in one direction from here. In the other direction they started in 2015.

 

[Y Ddraig Coch]

Ebbw Vale Parkway?

 

[-Colly405-]

Ebbw Vale Parkway?

... is correct. Your turn...

 

[Y Ddraig Coch]

1/ This station is not in Wales

 

[-Colly405-]

Lol
Pilning?

 

[Y Ddraig Coch]

1/ This station is not in Wales
2/ This station is served by 3 TOCS

 

[-Colly405-]

Exeter St David's?

 

[Y Ddraig Coch]

1/ This station is not in Wales
2/ This station is served by 3 TOCS
3/You can catch trains to two of the three mainland capitals from here

 

[-Colly405-]

Inverness?

 

[Y Ddraig Coch]

1/ This station is not in Wales
2/ This station is served by 3 TOCS
3/You can catch trains to two of the three mainland capitals from here
4/This station has 3 platforms.

 

[RDP]

Oxenholme Lake District?

 

[Y Ddraig Coch]

Oxenholme Lake District?

Bingo....

Last clue would have been

5/ For a relatively quiet station in a rural location its had more drama than most.
Police officers shot dead, passengers stabbed a derailing and most recently a lot of passengers locked in!