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[Tomonthetrain]

York - because i said so

 

[Mvann]

Bournville as they both made chocolate.

 

[Tomonthetrain]

Longbridge, like Bournville you cant get from Redditch to Bromsgrove without going via University

 

[gg1]

Longbridge, like Bournville you cant get from Redditch to Bromsgrove without going via University

The section of the A38 passing through Longbridge is named Bristol Road, just like the A38 in Bridgwater.

 

[Tomonthetrain]

has a nuclear service to Crewe operated by DRS

 

[Ivo]

Crewe's major football club has a very unusual suffix, as is also true of Tottenham.

 

[MK Tom]

Tottenham suffered very heavily in the August riots as did Croydon.

 

[Tomonthetrain]

Has a train to Watford

 

[MK Tom]

The Croydon train goes all the way to Milton Keynes...

Watford is a large Hertfordshire town that isn't the county town as is Hemel Hempstead.

 

[Tomonthetrain]

Has a 2 word name like Norton Canes

 

[Eagle]

Norton Canes is probably best known to the general public because it's the name of a motorway service area.

Same goes for Tibshelf.

 

[Tomonthetrain]

Tibshelf has a pub like Wordsley

 

[Eagle]

Wordsley is on the river Stour.

Blandford is on a different river Stour.

 

[Tomonthetrain]

Wordsley is on the river Stour.

Blandford is on a different river Stour.

Wordsley is unfortunately not on the Stour (as a local I know!).

 

[Eagle]

I shall remedy this.

Wordsley is a mile away from the river Stour.

Blandford Camp is a mile away from another river Stour.

:P

 

[Bedpan]

North Camp

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

East Garforth has a compass point in its name, like North Camp

 

[Class172]

Leeds and East Garforth both have serrvices to Blackpool North using class 158 units.

 

[Eagle]

Leeds, Yorkshire, shares its name with Leeds, Kent.

 

[deltic1989]

Dumbarton another town to have a Royal Navy Castle Class offshore patrol vessel names after its castle. ( HMS Leeds castle Pennant P258 & HMS Dumbarton Castle pennant P265 (I served on the latter during my service))

 

[Tomonthetrain]

Dumbarton has a bus to Glasgow

 

[gg1]

Dumbarton has a bus to Glasgow

Glasgow has one of worlds earliest underground railway systems, the original rolling stock for which was built in Oldbury.

 

[Tomonthetrain]

Oldbury has a BURY

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Altrincham and Bury are both terminal Metrolink stations.

 

[Tomonthetrain]

Altrincham has a train to Stockport

 

[MK Tom]

Stockport has one train a week to Stalybridge which is a parliamentary service like the one that keeps Polesworth open. Go on, associate that one!!

 

[Tomonthetrain]

Polesworth is near to Atherstone (Howzat!)

 

[MK Tom]

So is Nuneaton... we could do that all day!!

 

[Tomonthetrain]

Has a bus to Leicester

 

[Class172]

Tring and Polesworth are both WCML stations served by LM.

EDIT: Kidderminster and Leicester both have NR and heritage stations.