fishwomp
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Trick question .. but a more sensible one to discuss:
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Trivia: stations that are not an answer to a trivia question
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Mordac
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Thank you, I've been thinking this for a while but didn't want to rock the boat!
Can't think what trivia my local station Kings Norton would be the answer to... Stations with closed platforms maybe
Can't think what trivia my local station Kings Norton would be the answer to... Stations with closed platforms maybe
fishwomp
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Surely not. Stations including aristocratic titles anyone.....?!It is the only station on the network that is _not_ the answer to a trivia question.
Lampshade
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Probably somewhere like Mauldeth Road, nondescript station in a pretty nondescript area.
61653 HTAFC
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I'm sure that one came up in a Hallowe'en-themed trivia thread... it sounds a bit scary!
As for the real question, no we don't need a Trivia section. If you aren't interested in the discussion you aren't obliged to join in.
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Mornington Crescent.
(With thanks to ISIHAC.)
(With thanks to ISIHAC.)
fishwomp
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This isn't about not having trivia, it's about having its place. We could have one subforum for _everything_ - from speculative ideas, trams, covid, overseas rail, allocations, traction to _everything_. Merge it into one. Your logic of being not obliged to join in would hold for that too - if you're not interested, you don't have to read the thread.
The reason subforums exist is so that people can more easily find and participate in the topics that they are interested in, without seeing what they are not - and trivia has got to the point where it's not actually anything to do with infrastructure and stations, but more likely to be word play based on the list of stations. I don't mind joining the occasional thread, but it is just in the wrong place today.
Stations linked to motorbikes, obviously: Kings Norton, Kawasaki (suburban station in Tokyo), Ystrad r'Honda, Waterloo (a Triumph in Belgium),
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Sooner or later, it would come up in a thread about "station names containing the vowels a, u and e in that order".
No station is immune from a trivia thread!
fishwomp
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ah no, surely a, e, i, o, u is the one we want: Caledonian Road & Barnsbury
Some vowels appear twice, but you can go a->e->i->o->u. No other station on the entire network can say that.
gg1
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Suburban stations which have temporarily served as one of the major stations for their city.
For dull and boring Cross City line stations, I nominate the 3 which at some point in my life have been my local, Gravelly Hill, Selly Oak and Longbridge.
In answer to the original question, yes a separate trivia subforum is a good idea.
contrex
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Stapleton Road then
HST274
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Five Ways? I'm sure there's something but now I want to know what it is!
py_megapixel
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Reston?
Basically two bog-standard platforms and a bog-standard footbridge served hourly by bog-standard MUs, located in the middle of nowhere.
Basically two bog-standard platforms and a bog-standard footbridge served hourly by bog-standard MUs, located in the middle of nowhere.
61653 HTAFC
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"Stations that tell lies": I'm pretty sure the trains go only two ways- to Birmingham or away from Birmingham.
fishwomp
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Oxford Parkway - perhaps the only station to have done so twice whilst waiting for the same railway to be constructed, in different centuries and with different names. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Road_Halt_railway_station - in 1850, and again in 2016 when Parkway to main Oxford station didn't open for another few months after the Bicester-Parkway section opened.
lxfe_mxtterz
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Numerical station names?
Could be preceded by Four Oaks and followed by Seven Sisters (don't think there's a "six"!)
py_megapixel
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Hexham?
lxfe_mxtterz
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Ah, good shout! Didn't think of that!
How about Earley? Heck, you'd be hard-pressed to even make it there on-time with South Western Railway...
HST274
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Stations closed and reopened? Also one of newest stations excluding crossrail (if not newest I guess?)
How about:
St Austell
Selly Oak
Rochester
Blakedown
Witton
Cosford
Wressle
Just a random list of stations I don't know much about.
There are six towns which formed the federation of Stoke-on-Trent.Numerical station names?
Could be preceded by Four Oaks and followed by Seven Sisters (don't think there's a "six"!)
Three OaksNumerical station names?
Could be preceded by Four Oaks and followed by Seven Sisters (don't think there's a "six"!)
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Essix Road?Numerical station names?
Could be preceded by Four Oaks and followed by Seven Sisters (don't think there's a "six"!)
(Didn't even bother taking my coat off)
py_megapixel
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That's great. We can have Three Oaks, then Four Oaks, then Sevenoaks, then when we get bored of all the oaks and want to get rid of them, Burnt Oak(s). This shall become a story passed down through generations, to be known as the Gospel of Oaks.Three Oaks
Stations opened in the 20th century.
Stations named after areas of Birmingham.
So any of stations with 2 bog standard platforms, a bog standard footbridge, bog standard service or located in the middle of nowhere, as well as being one of the newest stations and stations that rhyme with another station (Neston) don’t count as trivia?
Yes. The others are of course Three Bridges, Three Oaks, Four Oaks, Seven Kings, Seven Sisters, Sevenoaks, l’Eightonstone, Nineaton, Tenby, Elevenshulme, Twelvebank, Chafford Hundred, Thousandby, Million Park and Billionham.Numerical station names?
Western Sunset
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Okehampton
Oakengates
Oakham
Oakleigh Park
Oakamoor
Oakworth
Old Oak Common
...and a partridge in a Peartree
Shouldn’t that be an oak tree?
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London VictoriaNumerical station names?
Could be preceded by Four Oaks and followed by Seven Sisters (don't think there's a "six"!)
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