Title: Fancy a quickie? Post by: grahame on October 26, 2008, 07:05:08 1. Opened 1937, 2 platforms, now 15,000 journeys per year and with development all around.
2. Opened 1996, 3 platforms, now 410,000 journeys per year and doing very well! 3. Opened 1856, closed 1966, now 0 journeys per year and would be a superb park and ride location. These three stations have similar sounding names and are on the same line. Which line and stations? (Closure date of 3rd subject to confirmation - I may be a year or two out, but not much more) Title: Re: Fancy a quickie? Post by: TerminalJunkie on October 26, 2008, 09:56:41 2: Filton Abbey Wood (that was way too easy).
3: Hmm. Both Dursley and Cam stations (as opposed to Cam & Dursley station...) opened in 1856 and closed - to passengers - in 1962, but neither of them sound like Filton Abbey Wood. Codford also opened in 1856 but closed in 1963, and isn't really on the same line as FAW. (And which "line" is FAW on anyway? The Penzance-Inverness one?) 1: Falconwood does sound like Filton Abbey Wood, but it opened in 1936 and is in SE London. ??? Title: Re: Fancy a quickie? Post by: grahame on October 26, 2008, 11:03:30 Filton (Abbey Wood) is right. Any you're right it's on a lot of lines - let's clarify to say that "services through it also routinely go through the other two" which rules out Falconwood.
Title: Re: Fancy a quickie? Post by: TerminalJunkie on October 26, 2008, 11:38:27 Ahh. 1 must be Dilton Marsh, then.
Title: Re: Fancy a quickie? Post by: grahame on October 26, 2008, 11:48:59 Ahh. 1 must be Dilton Marsh, then. yes ... so Dilton, Filton and .... Title: Re: Fancy a quickie? Post by: Phil on October 26, 2008, 12:06:35 New Milton?
Title: Re: Fancy a quickie? Post by: grahame on October 26, 2008, 12:14:53 Title: Re: Fancy a quickie? Post by: eightf48544 on October 26, 2008, 16:12:30 3. Wilton North GWR as opposed to Wilton LSWR
Title: Re: Fancy a quickie? Post by: Chris from Nailsea on October 26, 2008, 16:39:39 I'd hazard a guess at Wilton South, though: see http://www.trainweb.org/railwest/railco/sr/se67-stn1.html#wilton ?
Title: Re: Fancy a quickie? Post by: grahame on October 26, 2008, 17:06:46 Wilton is indeed correct ... and the opening date I quoted was for Wilton North ... where trains pass though on their way from Portsmouth, via Dilton and Filton ...
Closure date, yes, I only had that for South - thus my "circa" as I think they both closed pretty much at the same time. Incidentally - Wilton was once the capital of this part of Wessex ... Update - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilts,_Somerset_and_Weymouth_Railway gives a Wilton North closure date of 1955 - sorry for the confusion; hadn't realised it was that early (and I had one heck of a job researching it!) This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |