dg comments

please empty your brain below

Just one station each, thanks.

(12 are in Devon/Cornwall & six in London)

diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.11.20 - 12:00 a.m. | #

31 Exeter St Thomas - the closest station to my mother's

cjw714 | 01.11.20 - 7:02 a.m. | #

21 St Leonards Warrior Square

Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells | 01.11.20 - 7:04 a.m. | #

4 is St Anne's (On the Sea)

DoktorbPR1 | 01.11.20 - 7:09 a.m. | #

27. St Pancras

anonymous | 01.11.20 - 7:12 a.m. | #

10 St Denys in Southampton

JohnA | 01.11.20 - 7:14 a.m. | #

29. Bury St Edmunds

IanD | 01.11.20 - 7:15 a.m. | #

8 St Columb Road

dg writes: That's not 8

Jon Combe | 01.11.20 - 7:16 a.m. | #

18. Ryde St Johns Road

dg writes: That's not 18

Southern Man | 01.11.20 - 7:17 a.m. | #

19 - St Johns

Novaelius | 01.11.20 - 7:29 a.m. | #

5. St Austell

RosemaryT | 01.11.20 - 7:31 a.m. | #

16 - St Ives

Mehmet | 01.11.20 - 7:33 a.m. | #

17 - St Germans

dg writes: That's not 17

Tim | 01.11.20 - 7:34 a.m. | #

17 St James Park (careful absence of apostrophe there, so as not to confuse with destinations in Newcastle or London)

James | 01.11.20 - 7:34 a.m. | #

23 St Margaret’s

Liz | 01.11.20 - 7:36 a.m. | #

23 St Margaret’s

Mchael | 01.11.20 - 7:37 a.m. | #

26. St Neots

Baldassaro | 01.11.20 - 7:37 a.m. | #

11 St. Erth

mikeS | 01.11.20 - 7:44 a.m. | #

6: St Bees, where my grandfather undertook religious studies (and the end of the Coast-to-Coast walk).

Betterbee | 01.11.20 - 7:45 a.m. | #

32 - Newton St Cyres

Amanda | 01.11.20 - 7:45 a.m. | #

3: St.Andrews Road

John | 01.11.20 - 7:46 a.m. | #

1. St Alban's Abbey

mushroomcounter | 01.11.20 - 7:46 a.m. | #

26: St Albans City

dg writes: That's not 26

strawbrick | 01.11.20 - 7:47 a.m. | #

30 - Exeter St David's

Blue Witch | Homepage | 01.11.20 - 7:47 a.m. | #

33 ryde st johns

mark mcdonagh | 01.11.20 - 7:54 a.m. | #

28. Bedford St Johns

kevin hennessy | 01.11.20 - 7:57 a.m. | #

22 St Margarets

timbo | 01.11.20 - 7:57 a.m. | #

21. St Leonards Warrior Square

Dominic H | 01.11.20 - 7:59 a.m. | #

Still to be guessed...

In Devon/Cornwall: 9 20 12 7 8

In London: 15 18 24

Elsewhere: 2 13 14 25 34

diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.11.20 - 8:00 a.m. | #

2. St Alban's City

Luke | 01.11.20 - 8:01 a.m. | #

24. St Mary cray

Jaimie | 01.11.20 - 8:01 a.m. | #

15. St Helier

Steve | 01.11.20 - 8:06 a.m. | #

25 St Helens Central.

dg writes: That's not 25

Phil | 01.11.20 - 8:19 a.m. | #

18 St James Street

Roger French | Homepage | 01.11.20 - 8:22 a.m. | #

Is 34 "Pevensey & WeSTham"?

dg writes: No.

Jamesthegill | 01.11.20 - 8:23 a.m. | #

Just realised what 34 is, teach me to come on here without caffeine!

Jamesthegill | 01.11.20 - 8:24 a.m. | #

24 - St. Mary Cray

Still Anon | 01.11.20 - 8:26 a.m. | #

28 - Stansted St Margarets

dg writes: No.

Frank F | 01.11.20 - 8:46 a.m. | #

I think that 20 could be the delightfully named St Keyne Wishing Well Halt.

Petras409 | 01.11.20 - 8:47 a.m. | #

Annoyingly, St Botolph's now appears to be called Colchester Town. Must have happened in the 40 years since I last used it!

Rob | 01.11.20 - 8:56 a.m. | #

13 is St Helens Central I think.

Alan | 01.11.20 - 8:57 a.m. | #

Still to be guessed...

In Cornwall: 9 12
In Devon: 7 8

On Merseyside: 14 25
In East Sussex: 34

diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.11.20 - 9:00 a.m. | #

14 <snip>

dg writes: one guess each.

Alan | 01.11.20 - 9:04 a.m. | #

25 is St Michaels in south Liverpool, complete with a mural sponsored by Marks & Spencer

Si | 01.11.20 - 9:07 a.m. | #

9. St Columb Road

Someone had it before, but for the wrong number.

R | 01.11.20 - 9:12 a.m. | #

34: St Leonard Warrior Square

dg writes: That's not 34

Leonard | 01.11.20 - 9:14 a.m. | #

I think I've got 31/34 and will offer
12: St Germans
to the answer list

Westerleigh Junction | 01.11.20 - 9:16 a.m. | #

7 St Budeaux Victoria Road

Rich (no not that one, the other one) | 01.11.20 - 9:20 a.m. | #

Re James on 17 - I am based in Exeter and work for GWR. Despite what some sources (including our own website in places) and signs say, our official name and spelling for that station is St James' Park.

Rich (no not that one, the other one) | 01.11.20 - 9:23 a.m. | #

4. Is Lytham St Annes. (Well that was what we called it when i was a nipper)

Milo | 01.11.20 - 9:26 a.m. | #

I don't suppose 34 could be St Leonard's West Marina. No, I thought not.

Malcolm of Kent | 01.11.20 - 9:26 a.m. | #

14 St Helens Junction, the first station from where I ever caught a train

Henry | 01.11.20 - 9:27 a.m. | #

34 West St Leonards

Sprout Eater | 01.11.20 - 9:28 a.m. | #

Whatever GWR may say internally, St James Park is listed on their website without an apostrophe and the football ground next door has no apostrophe.

cjw714 | 01.11.20 - 9:33 a.m. | #

Just 8 to go

diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.11.20 - 9:45 a.m. | #

16 - St Ives

H | 01.11.20 - 9:55 a.m. | #

8 St Budeaux Ferry Road

Richard | 01.11.20 - 10:04 a.m. | #

That's the lot! Answers as follows...

  1) St Albans Abbey
  2) St Albans City
  3) St Andrew's Road
  4) St Annes-On-The-Sea
  5) St Austell
  6) St Bees
  7) St Budeaux Victoria Road
  8) St Budeaux Ferry Road
  9) St Columb Road
10) St Denys
11) St Erth
12) St Germans
13) St Helens Central
14) St Helens Junction
15) St Helier
16) St Ives
17) St James Park
18) St James' Street
19) St Johns
20) St Keyne Wishing Well Halt
21) St Leonards Warrior Square
22) St Margaret's
23) St Margaret's
24) St Mary Cray
25) St Michaels
26) St Neots
27) St Pancras International

28) Bedford St Johns
29) Bury St Edmunds
30) Exeter St David's
31) Exeter St Thomas
32) Newton St Cyres
33) Ryde St John's Road
34) West St Leonards

diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.11.20 - 10:05 a.m. | #

I used to pass through St James Park station regularly and I’m going by what the sign says. The adjacent football stadium is St James Park, but it’s located on St James’ Road. Seems like no one can agree. But there are similar conflicts with the other football stadium and nearby metro stop on Tyneside.

James | 01.11.20 - 10:12 a.m. | #

According to the conventions of Oxford University Press it would be James's, as James has one syllable. Hence Williams' but Rawls's.

I once amused myself making a list of railway stations that could be the names of characters in a novel. These included the blithe couple Daisy and Gordon Hill, their son Lawrence Hill and their daughter Rose Hill Marple, and their interfering neighbour Humphrey Park. The cerebral detective (for of course it is a detective novel) is Martin Mill, and his down-to-earth sidekick is James Cook. All the other characters are known only by their first names.

Sarah | Homepage | 01.11.20 - 10:32 a.m. | #

Thanks for the confirmation that Flanders and Swan's inclusion of St Erth and St Ives in their song about closed railway stations was not applicable! (I think the song is called "The Slow Train"

Cau1khead | 01.11.20 - 11:09 a.m. | #

I think referring to St Peter's as a 'Newcastle metro' station would go down very badly in Sunderland! Interestingly there used to be a St Peters station in Newcastle (until 1973).

Alan | 01.11.20 - 11:16 a.m. | #

Exeter City 's official explanation is that the ground is not directly related to St James but is simply a park situated in the St James area of the city so the name, therefore, does not need a possessive apostrophe.

cjw714 | 01.11.20 - 12:50 p.m. | #

Caulkhead - the Flanders & Swann song was based on the closures proposed by the Beeching Report. In the event, some of those lines were spared (and other, not in the report, were closed)

It got a lot easier to identify which station was which in the quiz once I realised DG had numbered them in alphabetical order. But No27 is officially London St Pancras International, which should bump it down to No31.

timbo | 01.11.20 - 1:06 p.m. | #

Is absolutely interesting how the vast majority are around the coasts (and I include London in here, given how important it was to shipping)

R | 01.11.20 - 3:16 p.m. | #

No St Johns between New Cross and Lewisham?

dg writes: number 19

David Churchill | 01.11.20 - 9:03 p.m. | #

TridentScan v2.10.0 | Privacy Policy