The Journey Game

[TheEdge]

Birmingham Snow Hill to Smethwick Galton Bridge on LM?

 

[Trainfan344]

Birmingham Snow Hill to Smethwick Galton Bridge on LM?

Yes, you just need the rolling stock.

 

[transportphoto]

Can I but in? :P 172?

TP

 

[Trainfan344]

Can I but in? :P 172?

TP

Yes, that is correct.

 

[transportphoto]

I'll leave the floor with TheEdge.

TP

 

[TheEdge]

Right then;

1. The journey starts at a station that is a shadow of its former self.
2. Had you been doing the journey in BR days it would have been on a named train
3. At the destination you can enjoy a reasonably priced pint in one of the former station buildings.
4. The journey can only be made on one TOC
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New clue then;
5. The announcements on this journey are made bilingually

 

[Trainfan344]

Cardiff Central to Holyhead on an Arriva Trains Wales Class 175?

 

[TheEdge]

Nope sorry

1. The journey starts at a station that is a shadow of its former self.
2. Had you been doing the journey in BR days it would have been on a named train
3. At the destination you can enjoy a reasonably priced pint in one of the former station buildings.
4. The journey can only be made on one TOC
5. The announcements on this journey are made bilingually
6. The journey passes through more closed stations than open ones
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Another clue then

7. The journey crosses the River Severn multiple times
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Just in case anyone is even looking.

8. The line on which the journey is made is named after a nearby mountain range

 

[Trainfan344]

Is the line the journey is made on the Penistone Line?

 

[TheEdge]

No, you were closer with your last guess.

9. During the journey the train splits.
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In a vague attempt to keep this moving.

10. The journey is signaled by ERMTS

 

[Trainfan344]

Welshpool to Minffordd on an Arriva Wales Trains Class 158?

 

[TheEdge]

Well we have a start station and some stock...

11. The destination town has two station buildings for the same line, one is still the station, the other still stands but never actually became a station

 

[Trainfan344]

Welshpool to Dovey Junction

 

[TheEdge]

Nope

12. The destination has a nationally important institution, other such institutions are found in London, Cambridge, Oxford, Dublin and Edinburgh.

 

[Trainfan344]

Welshpool to Cardiff Central?

 

[TheEdge]

Still wrong.

13. The destination was the location of a protest regarded to have kicked started the full scale revival of the Welsh language.

 

[dzug2]

Aberystwyth?

 

[TheEdge]

Finally, yes, t'was indeed Welshpool to Aberystwyth on a ATW 158.

Answers to the questions for those who care.

1. Welshpool is now a modern bus shelter station with the proper buildings next to the station now occupied by shops.
2. Cambrian Coast Express
3. Aberystwyth station buildings now hosts a Wetherspoons
4. ATW only.
5. English and Welsh
6. 7 open, 12 closed
7. 3 times
8. Cambrian Mountains
9. Trains split at Machynellth, one portion heading to Aberystwyth, one to Pwllheli
10. It is.
11. The Old College building (gothic building on the seafront) was orignally meant to be the station and railway hotel, it never happened and it is now a part of Aberystwyth University.
12. Aberystwyth is the location of the National Library of Wales, one of the UK's copyright libraries.
13. Members of the Welsh Language Association blocked Trefechan Bridge in Aberystwyth in 1953.

Bakers dozen of clues and over to dzug2.

 

[dzug2]

Bakers dozen of clues and over to dzug2.

Who declares open floor

 

[TheEdge]

That would be you...

 

[dzug2]

That would be you...

That was a statement, not a question

open floor

 

[Class172]

Just a quick warning - if there is no activity in this thread in the next week, then this thread will be locked.

 

[Trainfan344]

Well I shall give it one last go.

Clue 1) This journey crosses an international border
Clue 2) The origin is not electricfied
Clue 3) The destination is AC electricfied
Clue 4) This journey is run by rolling stock at least 10 years old.

 

[gnolife]

Cardiff Ctl o London Paddington on HST

 

[Trainfan344]

We have rolling stock.

5) This journey is only possible direct once a day, at other times it takes at least one or two changes.

 

[gnolife]

Inverness to Kings Cross, HST

 

[High Dyke]

Carmarthen - London Paddington. HST

 

[Trainfan344]

6) This journey takes at least 7 hours to complete.

 

[gnolife]

Aviemore - Peterborough

 

[dzug2]

Let's try Kingussie to Kings Cross One in 5 chance of being right