Three stations to guess...

[krus_aragon]

Are they cryptic? Are they easy? You tell me...

A)I have four platforms in use. Beeching stole two, and when I got them back they gave me wooden ones, even though the old stone ones are still here. The next station north is a request stop, and only sees four trains a day. I'm a candidate for electrification.

B)I am a terminus, served by both an 'intercity' operator and a 'local' operator. Steam trains come to visit in the summer. At two of my platforms, you can get off the train on either side.

C)I'm a branch line terminus that closed to passengers in 1954. There was one halt in between myself and the junction station on the main line. The junction station was closed in the 60s. The ruling gradient on my branch was 1 in 27.

 

[90019]

How many what/which station threads do we need?!

 

[Crossover]

B - Scarborough

 

[Tugzrule]

B - Scarborough

Thats what i thought too as Northern would be local and TPE or even East Midlands could be the intercity.

 

[krus_aragon]

Scarborough's correct. Two to go..

 

[Crossover]

Thats what i thought too as Northern would be local and TPE or even East Midlands could be the intercity.

Yep,,,I was reading it thinking "yay, I can answer this!"

On a technicality, you can get off at both sides in theory but in reality, only the 1 side is ever used...I guess otherwise the trains could become like wind tunnels and it makes safely closing them for the guard harder too if both sides are used.

 

[dave12435]

a maybe warrington or somewhere similar?

 

[krus_aragon]

A isn't Warrington, but you can get a direct train from Warrington to A.

 

[voyagerdude220]

A) Shotton?

 

[krus_aragon]

A) Shotton?

Correct.

Shotton had two platforms on the high-level lines for Liverpool, Wrexham, and Chester Northgate. There were two platforms on the slow low-level lines, for Chester General and Rhyl. The low-level platforms closed as a result of the Beeching report, but local people complained at the loss of trains to Chester when Northgate closed. Shotton low-level was reopened, but the slow lines had been removed by then. Wooden platforms were built to serve the remaining fast lines. One of the old stone platforms now has a bike shed on it.

 

[gnermatty]

c Cromer High?

 

[krus_aragon]

c Cromer High?

No, sorry. The line was a bit steeper than that. Operational rules stated that engines had to push trains up the hill from the rear.

 

[Daimler]

I'll put forward for c) Holywell Town station...

 

[krus_aragon]

I'll put forward for c) Holywell Town station...

Yes, you've got it! The 1 in 27 gradient post/marker/insert-correct-term-here is on display at the National Railway Museum in York.