Station Odd One Out

[southern442]

Should someone else take the floor since everybody has disappeared?

 

[Welshman]

Considering there's been no activity here for some while, let's keep the thread alive with this:-

Flint, Prestatyn, Rhyl, Colwyn Bay.

The clue is - services.

 

[Eagle]

The obvious one would be Colwyn Bay is not served by Virgin whereas the other three are.

 

[Welshman]

Not that obvious, I'm afraid, as Colwyn Bay is served by Virgin Trains!

 

[Eagle]

There is a slight possibility that I may have gotten Colwyn Bay and Conwy mixed up

 

[Welshman]

Don't worry about it.

But you're in the right area.

 

[Robinson]

Prestatyn is the only one of those 4 not served by the WAG Express?

 

[Welshman]

That's it!

[When the WAG Express commenced, the idea was it would only stop at the principal station in each county on the NW Coast. So it stopped at Bangor [Gwynedd]; Llandudno Junction[Conwy]; it's Denbighshire stop was Rhyl, hence it omitted Prestatyn, then Flint.
Later on, Colwyn Bay was added, just leaving Prestatyn omitted.]

 

[Robinson]

Holyhead, Harwich International, Liverpool South Parkway, London St Pancras International. The theme is connections.

 

[Eagle]

Liverpool South Parkway doesn't connect into an international mode of transport (it connects into a bus that connects into it).

 

[Robinson]

That was a quick correct guess...

 

[Eagle]

Okay.

Shrewsbury, Liskeard, Bridlington, Alexandria. The theme is platforms.

 

[Welshman]

Is it that Shrewsbury, Bridlington and Alexandria have had some original platforms now taken out of use/demolished, whereas Liskeard still uses all three?

 

[Eagle]

Right station, wrong reason.

 

[alchemy]

Aberdeen, Inverness, Fort William and Penzance.

Fort William. Not served by HST

 

[Robinson]

Liskeard is the only one to have a platform from which trains cannot reach the line the other platforms are on without reversing?

 

[Eagle]

The correct answer has a lot fewer words than that. :P

Think numbers.

 

[Buttsy]

Liskeard is the only one with a odd number of platforms as numbered?

 

[Eagle]

I'm not sure exactly what you mean there, but all four of them have an odd number of platforms.

 

[Buttsy]

I'm not sure exactly what you mean there, but all four of them have an odd number of platforms.

Fair point

 

[Welshman]

Liskeard has one platform at right-angles to the other two?

 

[Eagle]

No. If it was as simple as that then I'd've chosen the other three stations at random.


The answer I wanted was:

Liskeard is the only one to have a platform 2.

(open floor)

 

[southern442]

An easy one to keep us going: Stockport, Chester, Battersea park, Penzance.

 

[harry42]

An easy one to keep us going: Stockport, Chester, Battersea park, Penzance.

Chester only one served by ATW?

 

[southern442]

Stockport is also served by ATW.

 

[harry42]

Stockport is also served by ATW.

Oh! OK!

How about Penzance only terminus only?

 

[southern442]

Right station, wrong reason.

 

[harry42]

Only served by FGW?!

 

[southern442]

I'll give it to you, but the answer I was looking for was Penzance is the only one not served by a parliamentary train.

 

[southern442]

It seems like no-one is replying, so

Brighton, Watford jn, Farringdon, Stratford (London).