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Hint -- the "question station" and one-time rail crossroads: in the Grouping era there featured there, in one way or another, three out of the "Big Four" companies.
Hint -- I hope helpful, rather than the reverse ... the "answer station" has a "double-barrelled" name (" ******* & ******* " type). There are / have been on the British rail system, within some 200 miles of the answer station, three other stations with names all or part of which, comprise the same one out of the two words in the answer station's name. Two of these three are open for passenger traffic today; the third was on a long-closed branch line.