Station Odd One Out

[MK Tom]

OK actually irritating that everybody's just given up on this and my one in the journey quiz. I thought they'd both get knocked for being too easy.

The answer I was looking for was they've all lost direct services to or from Northampton since privitisation, except Wolverhampton which retains a single service per day.

Trainfan344 was closest so I'd call you the rightful winner.

 

[Trainfan344]

Thanks Tom, Peterborough, Cambridge, Stansted Airport, Diss The clue is direct services.

 

[gnolife]

They all have direct service to Birmingham except Diss

 

[Trainfan344]

They all have direct service to Birmingham except Diss

Your turn

 

[gnolife]

Crewe, Westerton, Preston, Carstairs.

Think about services.

 

[Buttsy]

Crewe, Westerton, Preston, Carstairs.

Think about services.

Carstairs is only served by the Lowland sleeper.

 

[gnolife]

I would have preferred it the other way (Crewe, Preston and Westerton are all served by the Highland sleeper), but that'll do.

 

[Buttsy]

Drem, St Erth, Slough, Twyford

Think of services

 

[Robinson]

All apart from Drem see services off their respective branch lines terminating?

 

[Buttsy]

All apart from Drem see services off their respective branch lines terminating?

Not quite what I was after (wrong station selected as well), but the right sort of thinking.

 

[Robinson]

Trains arriving off the branch at St Erth are running in the "down" direction; at all the others they join the main line in the "up" direction?

 

[Buttsy]

Nope, think of where the trains are going (or not...)

 

[gnolife]

Do all the branches have services to their respective capital, except St Erth?

 

[Buttsy]

Do all the branches have services to their respective capital, except St Erth?

Right sort of thinking, but look at the timetables and see where the trains go.

 

[185143]

they all go into London Paddington except Drem

 

[Buttsy]

This has been going on long enough. The answer is Slough as all the others have through services from the branch.

Open floor

 

[Welshman]

OK - try this:-

Netherfield, Bingham, Sleaford, Heckington.

Something to do with access.

 

[Buttsy]

All but Sleaford you have to access the opposite platform via a level crossing?

 

[Welshman]

Right idea - but the wrong station.

[P.S. Netherfield is just an island platform - you access both platforms via a bridge and stairway.]

 

[CallySleeper]

Netherfield isn't step free unlike the others

 

[Welshman]

No - Bingham has no lift

 

[CallySleeper]

I mean Netherfield you have to access it via a set of steps but all the others access is on level ground?

 

[Welshman]

I mean Netherfield you have to access it via a set of steps but all the others access is on level ground?

Yes - fair enough - I'll accept that.

{I was originally thinking of Heckington where you have to cross the line to get from the eastbound platform to the westbound - at Sleaford and Bingham there are footbridges and at Netherfield it's just an island platform}.

However, Netherfield is also the odd-one out for the reason you state. Well done!

 

[CallySleeper]

Open floor.

 

[David Goddard]

OK, try this:
Barrow-in-Furness, Blackpool North, Liverpool Lime Street, Doncaster

Think through services

 

[Welshman]

Are you not supposed to give a clue as to the area in which you are looking?

 

[David Goddard]

Are you not supposed to give a clue as to the area in which you are looking?

Sorry, done

 

[Trainfan344]

Blackpool North, only one not to have through services.

 

[12CSVT]

Doncaster doesn't have through services to any of the other 3 stations. (Open floor if I'm right).

 

[David Goddard]

Sorry for the delay.
Sadly neither of you are correct yet. Ths connection goes back a few years.