Station Odd One Out

[HST Power]

If you've ever watched Have I Got News For You this will probably be fairly familiar to you, as I got the idea from the 'Odd One Out' round.

Four stations are named - 3 have something in common but one is the odd one out. The first person to correctly work out what the pattern is takes the floor.

There may be more than one correct answer! In fact, 9 times of out 10 there probably will be.

So, to start we have:

Letchworth, Ashwell & Morden, Foxton, Plymouth

Which is the odd one out?

 

[ainsworth74]

Plymouth is the odd one out as it is not served by FCC.

 

[HST Power]

Correct! Over to you!

 

[ainsworth74]

Aberdeen, Inverness, Fort William and Penzance.

 

[HST Power]

Penzance is the odd one out. Not in Scotland.

Newark North Gate, Grantham, Retford, Cardiff.

 

[Trainfan344]

Cardiff, not in England.

Lowestoft, London Waterloo, Coleshill Parkway, Manchester Piccadilly

 

[transportphoto]

Penzance is the odd one out. Not in Scotland.

Newark North Gate, Grantham, Retford, Cardiff.

Cardiff - not served by ICEC, or the only one not in England, only one not electrified (I could go on...) PS - You do realise there are 3 Cardiff stations?

Lowestoft, London Waterloo, Coleshill Parkway, Manchester Piccadilly

Lowestoft - only one that does not have a vowel in it's CRS code. LWT, WAT, CEH, MAN.

Salhouse, Hoveton and Wroxham, North Walsham or Sheringham?

 

[Trainfan344]

Cardiff - not served by ICEC, or the only one not in England, only one not electrified (I could go on...) PS - You do realise there are 3 Cardiff stations?

Salhouse, Hoveton and Wroxham, North Walsham or Sheringham?

See post above you...

 

[transportphoto]

See post above you...

See post above you...

CURRENT Stations:

Salhouse, Hoveton and Wroxham, North Walsham or Sheringham?

 

[HST Power]

PS - You do realise there are 3 Cardiff stations?

Well, it's a good job they're all in Wales then!

Henceforth, I think the poster should specify what it is they want the other posters to guess. For example, do they want the odd one out to be based on platform numbers, TOC service, railway line etc. Otherwise, we can fill up pages and pages simply going 'X is the odd one out because it isn't in England. Y is the odd one out because it isn't in Wales.'

 

[Trainfan344]

Salhouse, Hoveton and Wroxham, North Walsham or Sheringham?

Sheringham, is the only terminus and the only single platform.

Lowestoft, London Waterloo, Coleshill Parkway, Manchester piccadily

Something to do with TOC's

 

[transportphoto]

Salhouse, Hoveton and Wroxham, North Walsham or Sheringham?

Sheringham, is the only terminus and the only single platform.

Which would be what I'm looking for.

Lowestoft, London Waterloo, Coleshill Parkway, Manchester piccadily

I've responded to this tasking. Please think of a new combination of stations.

On another note, this quiz did receive Quizmaster approval before posting.

TP

 

[Trainfan344]

Coleshill Parkway Brundall Gardens Lakenheath Carlisle
Something to do with stopping patterns.

 

[transportphoto]

Coleshill Parkway Brundall Gardens Lakenheath Carlisle
Something to do with stopping patterns.

Lakenheath, only one which sees a service on weekends only.

 

[Trainfan344]

Lakenheath, only one which sees a service on weekends only.


Norwich, Bristol Temple Meads, London Liverpool Street or Cambridge. - This is something to do with the bus service the station receives.

Not the awnser i was looking for...

 

[transportphoto]

Not the awnser i was looking for...

During our discussions, as Quizmasters, we agreed that any correct reasoning should be accepted - otherwise we could be here all day trying to get the right one, there may be hundreds. And indeed this is stated in the original post.

We resume from:

Norwich, Bristol Temple Meads, London Liverpool Street or Cambridge. - This is something to do with the bus service the station receives.

TP

 

[Trainfan344]

All recieve a bus service from outside the exit except London Liverpool Street.

 

[transportphoto]

All recieve a bus service from outside the exit except London Liverpool Street.

That is incorrect, as London Liverpool Street has multiple exits. The upper concourse at LST has bus stands, as shown here: http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/sjp/LST/plan.html .

TP

 

[Trainfan344]

All have at least 3 diffrent bus stop locations serving them except Cambrige ?

 

[transportphoto]

All have at least 3 diffrent bus stop locations serving them except Cambrige ?

I can't verify for Bristol but I'll give it to you. The link I had in mind was all bar Cambridge had bus services from First Group. Norwich, Bristol and Liverpool Street.

TP

 

[Trainfan344]

I can't verify for Bristol but I'll give it to you. The link I had in mind was all bar Cambridge had bus services from First Group. Norwich, Bristol and Liverpool Street.

TP

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/posters/BRI.pdf Network rail can.
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Exeter York Dawlish Lowestoft Something to do with the weather.

 

[Welshman]

Exeter, York and Dawlish have covered platforms, and/or overall roofs.
Lowestoft hasn't - so you're open to whatever the weather throws at you.

 

[gnolife]

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/posters/BRI.pdf Network rail can.
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Exeter York Dawlish Lowestoft Something to do with the weather.

Lowestoft is the only one not affected by the flooding problems

Heald Green, Gatley, Stockport, Doncaster

Something about services calling

 

[Robinson]

Gatley has a limited TPE service, whereas the others have TPE calling at least hourly.

 

[gnolife]

Gatley has a limited TPE service, whereas the others have TPE calling at least hourly.

Is exactly what I was after

 

[Robinson]

Tunbridge Wells, Canterbury West, Watford High Street, Horsham. Something to do with rolling stock.

 

[Trainfan344]

Canterbury West is the odd one out, all the others are DC electricfied?
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Lowestoft is the only one not affected by the flooding problems

Heald Green, Gatley, Stockport, Doncaster

Something about services calling

That is the one i was looking for.

 

[Robinson]

Canterbury West is the odd one out, all the others are DC electricfied?

Incorrect; Canterbury West is also DC electrified.

 

[Trainfan344]

Canterbury west as it sees more than one type of rolling stock?

 

[Robinson]

Canterbury west as it sees more than one type of rolling stock?

Also incorrect.