One basically involving Britain's old pre-Grouping railway companies.
Around the peak time in Great Britain for mileage of railway open for passenger services (early 20th century), there were a number of instances of two different stations in GB with the identical name, but serving places in different parts of the country, and on lines of different companies. The question covers five such, shown below. There are given (order they're in, is random): the name of the railway company owning the station, and a -- fairly broad and general -- geographical "pointer". For each of these same-name pairs, please furnish the name. (It may occur that there's one name-of-community, no suffix; and the same name of different community, plus the suffix "Halt".)
(Fictional example, concerning two fictional villages both called [random name] Crumpleton -- let's say that one was in Wiltshire, and the other in Cumberland; a station of that name, on systems of railway companies as below:
Great Western Railway -- mid-south-west England
Furness Railway -- north-west England
Correct answer would be, "Crumpleton" -- elaborate further if you wish.)
(1) Great Western Railway -- Home Counties
North Eastern Railway -- far north England
(2) Great Eastern Railway -- East Anglia
Great Central Railway -- not very far from the east coast
(3) Midland Railway -- east Midlands
Great Western Railway -- south-west Midlands
(4) Brecon & Merthyr Railway -- South Wales
Cambrian Railways -- Welsh Border country, on the English side
(5) Great Western Railway -- south-west Midlands, getting towards Wales
Southern Railway, opened after the Grouping -- very near the south coast
(was trying not to give too much away -- a needless anxiety, as it turned out). I have an advantage re the Northants. Gretton -- I actually used it once !
