Station Facts Journey Game

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shoeburyness was the eastern terminal station of the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway.

 

[Gloster]

Thorpe Bay was served by the trams of Southend-on-Sea Corporation Tramways from 1912 to 1939.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Southend East is a DfT category "D" station.

 

[Springs Branch]

Southend Central is the busiest of the four stations which have "Southend" in their name, with 3.45 million entries and exits in the 2018/19 year (the last "normal" year before you-know-what).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Westcliff has a yacht club.

 

[Gloster]

Chalkwell is the nearest station to the Essex Yacht Club, which has as its Headquarters ship the former HMS Wilton, the world’s first glass-reinforced fibre warship.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

How to play:-

1. Each station must be accompanied by a fact about the area the station serves (or the station itself)

Just reminding myself of what that guidance above actually said, especially in respect of the area served by the railway station.

Leigh-on-Sea is well placed for visitors to the nature reserve at Two Tree Island.

 

[Springs Branch]

Benfleet station, sometimes known as Benfleet for Canvey Island, serves the reclaimed mudflats known as Canvey Island.
In the 1850s Canvey Island was known as a hotbed of bare-knuckle boxing, including, allegedly, some bouts arising from local family feuds.

 

[Gloster]

Pitsea was the site of two fatal accidents in 1961. (One was a short way along the line towards Laindon.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stanford-le-Hope is situated on a loop line.

 

[Gloster]

East Tilbury was opened in 1936 as a halt to serve the nearby Bata shoe factory.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tilbury Town was also once connected to the now-closed short branch line to Tilbury Riverside, which the Tilbury to Gravesend ferry served.

 

[Springs Branch]

Grays was the birthplace of comedian and activist Russell Brand.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chafford Hundred Lakeside serves a very large retail complex.

 

[A Challenge]

The village of North Ockendon is the only settlement in Greater London to be located outside the M25

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Upminster is a seven-platform railway station

 

[Springs Branch]

Emerson Park is the least used of the stations managed by London Overground (337,000 entries & exits between March 2019 and Feb 2020)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Romford is a five-platform railway station.

 

[Springs Branch]

Chadwell Heath was the furthest east that London Transport trams and trolleybuses extended in east London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Goodmayes is a DfT category C2 station that was opened by the Great Eastern Railway in 1901.

 

[backontrack]

Seven Kings is served by TfL Rail.

 

[Springs Branch]

Ilford was the location of Ilford Limited, a company manufacturing photographic materials and chemicals, until it relocated to Cheshire in the late 20th Century.


[QUERY] As we're approaching London, I assume an implied rule of this game is that we must stick to National Rail routes and cannot use Underground, DLR (or Light Rail systems when in other cities)?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

[QUERY] As we're approaching London, I assume an implied rule of this game is that we must stick to National Rail routes and cannot use Underground, DLR (or Light Rail systems when in other cities)?

Since the rules in the first posting of the thread do not clarify the matter in your query, I have sent a message to the forum quizmaster team.

 

[Snow1964]

Manor Park is location of the huge City of London cemetery

(continuing towards Richmond pending clarity on if need to stay on National Rail)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Forest Gate was also once part of the Hundred of Becontree.

 

[fishquinn]

Hi guys,

To clarify here we generally apply NR only unless otherwise specified so it will be NR only here (so presumably overground from Stratford).

Thanks

 

[A Challenge]

Hi guys,

To clarify here we generally apply NR only unless otherwise specified so it will be NR only here (so presumably overground from Stratford).

Thanks

That was the route I had assumed would be taken

 

[Snow1964]

Maryland station opened in 1873 as Maryland Point, point was dropped in 1940 and it is rumoured to have done to show solidarity with Maryland, USA when UK needed help from America during the war.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stratford is a railway station that has been subjected to flooding.

 

[Springs Branch]

Hackney Wick was opened in 1980 and was originally served by DMUs operating between Camden Road and North Woolwich.