AQ12 - Station Search

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[PhilWakely]

I may be missing something, but I cannot see either Exeter or Taunton.

[Chris from Nailsea]

There's also a rather nasty word in there. 

[eightonedee]

I may be missing something, but I cannot see either Exeter or Taunton

Taunton - 6 tiles in from right, bottom row, and work upwards. - Can't find Exeter though.

[froome]

I may be missing something, but I cannot see either Exeter or Taunton

Taunton - 6 tiles in from right, bottom row, and work upwards. - Can't find Exeter though.

Exeter is missing, as is Cardiff Central. Have a few vague ideas for others, though not sure on those.

Weston was mentioned by CfN, I was going to congratulate Graham for getting Weston's full name in, it just fits!

Regarding the shortened name, a couple of thoughts:

a) Worcester SH is presumably the shortened form of Worcester Shrub Hill.
b) Cheltenham is missing the Spa from its name. (However, is Cheltenham a destination for any trains from Paddington or do they all run through?)

A few of the places I thought were red herrings surprised me until I realised that Paddington now has trains running to its east!

[ChrisB]

The Golden Valley services terminate at Cheltenham Spa.

[stuving]

I wasn't sure at the beginning if the Elizabeth Line was included. I mean, if the Met platforms don't count as they are  Underground, but are not underground, is the Elizabeth Line - which is underground - included or is it Underground? Even TfL^» (Transport for London - about) don't seem sure of that!

But with so many destinations included it seems EL is in; even Whitechapel is there, though not Gidea Park (which is an omission). So Heathrow Terminals is abbreviated to fit in, unless you can add that 4 on to finish it. In that case there should be a 5 too, and that would be so even without the EL - as HEx surely must be included.

[grahame]

There's also a rather nasty word in there. 

Not all the letters in it formed part of station names, so (exceptionally) I have amended the quiz.

[grahame]

Our "working grid" of destinations - basically including anywhere that's shown as a destination of a train in normal timetabled passenger service in the national data feed database.

AbbeyWood
Banbury
- Bedwyn
- BristolParkway
- BristolTM
- Cardiff
Carmarthen
Cheltenham
Didcot
- Exeter
Frome
- GideaPark
GreatMalvern
Greenford
Harlington
Hayes
HeathrowTerminal
Hereford
Maidenhead
- Newbury
- Newquay
Oxford
Paignton
PembrokeDock
Penzance  
Plymouth
Reading
Shenfield
Swansea
Swindon
Taunton
Westbury
Westonsupermare
Whitechapel
- WorcesterFS
WorcesterSH
- WorcestershireP

Those missing from what we managed to cram into the grid marked with a "-".   Then some false leads and suggestions added - there's a special in there for Paddington Bear though he would need to change at Heathrow, and some places on which are not on the GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) network, nor normal termini of London Trains, or no longer have a through service.  There are so many trains to Reading that it's there twice - well spotted.  One of the extras may have been removed in last night's edit because I hadn't recognised that spelt backwards, and with an unfortunate letter next in the grid, it was not a word we should be associated with.