I'm thinking of a station...

[Welshman]

Smithy Bridge?

 

[ole man]

Nope..

 

[150222]

Allans West?

 

[ole man]

Not there either.

Clue number 1.... The line i'm on will be soon controlled elsewhere

 

[martinsh]

Nantwich ?

 

[Ivo]

Something about one of the boxes in the Great Yarmouth area? Or did I imagine that?

Assuming I'm not going crazy (), Reedham?

 

[ole man]

As always Martinsh gets mine everytime, Nantwich is correct

 

[martinsh]

As always Martinsh gets mine everytime, Nantwich is correct

You should try and make them further away from where you live !!

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This station has platforms on two levels, both of which are electrified. On one level there is only one route, and it is served by just one TOC. On the other level it has more routes and is served by 4 (different) TOCs, with another one passing through non stop.

 

[Eagle]

Liverpool South Parkway.

 

[martinsh]

Yeah, LSP it is. Gotta start making them harder - but not as offbeat as Ivo does !

 

[Eagle]

I am almost entirely served by one type of train (across two classes). My highest platform number is 6, and the longest services that use me are nine cars long.

 

[David Goddard]

Salisbury?

 

[Eagle]

Yep, only really served by 158s/159s (think there might be a 150 once or twice a day). That was an easy one, I'll admit.

 

[150222]

I am almost entirely served by one type of train (across two classes). My highest platform number is 6, and the longest services that use me are nine cars long.

Funny, I could swear that there was a 10 car daily diagram into Waterloo!

 

[Eagle]

Funny, I could swear that there was a 10 car daily diagram into Waterloo!

2x158+2x159? Never seen the like, but if you say so. 3x159 is very common, of course.

 

[David Goddard]

A Junction Station serving five (formerly six) routes, operated by four TOCs, but with just three platforms.

 

[martinsh]

Ely ?

 

[150222]

Manchester Airport?

 

[martinsh]

Manchester Airport?

I didn't realise Manchester Airport was a five way junction ?!

 

[150222]

Selby?

 

[Nym]

Heald Green West, South and North....

Then 09R and 27L

 

[Ivo]

I don't know. But I wanted to comment on this...

Yeah, LSP it is. Gotta start making them harder - but not as offbeat as Ivo does !

Grrr! Remind me to come up with something really obscure for the next one I do

 

[David Goddard]

martinsh was correct - Ely it is!

 

[martinsh]

OK. Sorry about the delay.

Like my last station, this station also used to have two levels, but the low level closed in the 1960s, though it is still open for freight.

Four platforms, and is served by 4 TOCs.

 

[Eagle]

Wolverhampton? too many platforms.

 

[Ivo]

Didn't Warrington Bank Quay formerly have a Low Level?

...Having said that, how many operators serve WBQ? Isn't the answer to this question three?

 

[martinsh]

Warrington Bank Quay is correct

served by ATW, Virgin and Northern

Oops, forgot Birmingham - Scotland is run by Virgin not Xc, sorry.

PS no clues about value of scrabble letters, or your initials please !

 

[Ivo]

OK, I'm a station whose name is worth the following: 3, 1, 1.

No, sorry, never mind [PAR]

Let's see now:

This station, whose name would sound more at home in a biology lesson than a railway atlas, has a regular but not especially frequent DMU service. During the day all services at this station run between the same two termini; one of these termini is in a far more prominent settlement than the other. This station usually has direct services to precisely one city; by changing either there or a short distance in the other direction, it is also possible to access the local major city.

 

[martinsh]

Swineshead ?

 

[Ivo]

The service I'm thinking of is more frequent than that. But it's not exactly the Cross City either.