Name the town...

[MidnightFlyer]

When it made sense it was pretty easy

To be fair it was easy when put 'correctly'. Next question please, I'm on a roll now!

 

[IanPooleTrains]

Okay then, try this one for size

This town has one station on a main line to London, originally opened by a company that doesn't operate from there but does have some 'styling influences' of that company.

 

[imagination]

opened by a company that doesnt operate there? that could be almost any station in the country...

and from the word "had" - is the station now closed? Yet the styling influences are still present, so I would assume that the styling influences are on the town itself.

Right?

 

[IanPooleTrains]

opened by a company that doesnt operate there? that could be almost any station in the country...

and from the word "had" - is the station now closed? Yet the styling influences are still present, so I would assume that the styling influences are on the town itself.

Right?

Meant to put has and not had but have corrected that now

 

[Sapphire Blue]

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[imagination]

If it's the station that has the styling influence then Hanwell would fit

It has one station (Hanwell) on the main line to London (GWML) originally opened by a company (Great Western Railway) that doesn't operate there (because it no longer exists) but does have styling influence on the station (in that almost all of the station and some of its signage/livery dates back to the pre-nationalisation era)

 

[Simon Poole]

Leamington Spa, was an GWR Station and GWR Trains ran but now operates by Chiltern Railways

 

[IanPooleTrains]

Leamington Spa, was an GWR Station and GWR Trains ran but now operates by Chiltern Railways

Yep indeedy do! His go!

 

[Tomnick]

I'm lost - surely virtually every station in the country isn't operated nowadays by the company that opened it?!

(the only potential exceptions being those very recent openings - East Midlands Parkway springs to mind as an example, as EMT were very much involved in its opening, though surely it's still Network Rail property?)

 

[Simon Poole]

An through Station which isn't electricfied but when it's terminates both stations are under the wires and don't have an frequant service

 

[IanPooleTrains]

Great Yarmouth?

By the way, just like you bro, it makes no sense!

 

[Simon Poole]

Great Yarmouth?

By the way, just like you bro, it makes no sense!

Wrong Anwser!

 

[IanPooleTrains]

Then how about we go local? One service ends under the wires and the other has a non frequent service anymore

Walsall!

 

[Simon Poole]

still wrong but it is in the Midlands

 

[Mvann]

Water orton

 

[Simon Poole]

Water orton

It's roughly around that area but not on that line

hint: station isn't under the wires but the services it makes only stops at 3 stations, but 2 stations on this 3 stop route are under the wires and through stations with the same three companies that stop at the 2 stations which are under the wires

 

[4SRKT]

Bedworth

 

[Simon Poole]

Bedworth

correct!

 

[4SRKT]

OK, a town with two unconnected stations. One is much busier than the other. The lines from both join up a few miles away and continue to a major junction.

 

[IanPooleTrains]

It's a starting guess, I don't think it is right but I'm gonna say Blackpool.

North is busier than south, they meet up at Kirkham and Wesham and continue down to Preston.

 

[4SRKT]

Blackpool is correct

 

[IanPooleTrains]

Wow, didn't think that was right

Okay then, next one.

Town I am thinking of has two stations, not that far apart from each other, both terminus stations and managed by the same company even though both see one extra visiting TOC

 

[4SRKT]

Wow, didn't think that was right

Okay then, next one.

Town I am thinking of has two stations, not that far apart from each other, both terminus stations and managed by the same company even though both see one extra visiting TOC

Bradford.

 

[IanPooleTrains]

oh yes!

 

[4SRKT]

An easy one for me given that Forster Square is only 3.5 miles from my local station!
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A much harder one this time I reckon. This town has a single platform station on a double track line. There was once an east-facing bay platform as well. A long closed branch crossed the main line just east of the station. Trains heading north east had to reverse out of the bay platform over a trailing connection to access the branch, then pull forwards in a north westerly direction, crossing the main line. About 3 miles further on, another branch went off to the north (facing junction this time). The branch is closed and lifted at the junction, but a few miles along it becomes a preserved railway.

 

[IanPooleTrains]

I'm gonna take a stab at High Wycombe

 

[4SRKT]

No. Wrong end of the country. This is actually going to be pretty hard IMHO, as the clues given so far relate to long closed lines.

Another clue. This station is almost exactly mid way along a 42 mile branch from a major railway junction.

 

[Simon Poole]

Aviemore?

 

[IanPooleTrains]

Bodmin General?

 

[4SRKT]

Both wrong, and both geographically as far away from the answer as each other.