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« on: October 26, 2008, 07:05:08 » |
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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)
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« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2008, 09:56:41 » |
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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. 
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« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2008, 11:03:30 » |
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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.
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« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2008, 11:38:27 » |
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Ahh. 1 must be Dilton Marsh, then.
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« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2008, 11:48:59 » |
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Ahh. 1 must be Dilton Marsh, then.
yes ... so Dilton, Filton and .... |
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« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2008, 12:06:35 » |
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New Milton?
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« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2008, 12:14:53 » |
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« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2008, 16:12:30 » |
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3. Wilton North GWR▸ as opposed to Wilton LSWR▸
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« Reply #8 on: October 26, 2008, 16:39:39 » |
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« Reply #9 on: October 26, 2008, 17:06:46 » |
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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!) |
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