| Odd one out - AQ 16th December Posted by grahame at 05:49, 16th December 2023 |     |
Odd one out, and why - from each of these groups:
1.
Black Dog Halt
Blackdyke Halt
Blackhall Colliery
Black Horse Road
Blackpool Central
Blackpool North
Blackrod
Blackwell
2.
Liss
Brandon
Weyborne
Oakworth
Ulverston
Kings Cross
Goathland
3.
Mallaig
Kyle of Lochalsh
Thurso
Wick
Dornoch
Hopeman
4.
Okehampton
Melksham
Skewen
Taunton
Falmouth Town
Llanshamlet
As ever, there are probably multiple answers in each case and I may not even be right in some of the others.
| Re: Odd one out - AQ 16th December Posted by ellendune at 07:45, 16th December 2023 | |
1. I am going to guess Black Dog Halt because it was a private station
| Re: Odd one out - AQ 16th December Posted by eightonedee at 08:19, 16th December 2023 | |
3 Hopeman - no station
| Re: Odd one out - AQ 16th December Posted by grahame at 08:26, 16th December 2023 | |
3 Hopeman - no station
There isn't any longer - but then there is no station at Dornoch any longer
1. I am going to guess Black Dog Halt because it was a private station
You may have a different odd one out to the odd one out I had. It probably is the only station that was private in the list.
| Re: Odd one out - AQ 16th December Posted by eightonedee at 09:53, 16th December 2023 | |
Ah, should have checked with Prof Google.
Try Mallaig. It was North British/LNER, rest were Highland/LMS.
| Re: Odd one out - AQ 16th December Posted by stuving at 11:08, 16th December 2023 | |
4. have closed and reopened years later, apart from Taunton and Llanshamlet - but that's just a typo; Llansamlet station did have a period of eclipse.
| Re: Odd one out - AQ 16th December Posted by grahame at 11:18, 16th December 2023 | |
4. have closed and reopened years later, apart from Taunton and Llanshamlet - but that's just a typo; Llansamlet station did have a period of eclipse.
Yes, correct ...
Ah, should have checked with Prof Google.
Try Mallaig. It was North British/LNER, rest were Highland/LMS.
Try Mallaig. It was North British/LNER, rest were Highland/LMS.
Also correct
| Re: Odd one out - AQ 16th December Posted by AMLAG at 17:09, 16th December 2023 | |
4 Okehampton is the only former Southern main line station and the only one that, in hindsight fortunately, left the National Rail network (in about 1994 with the sale of Meldon Quarry and about 15 miles of line) then very luckily rejoined it (in 2021).
| Re: Odd one out - AQ 16th December Posted by eXPassenger at 17:27, 16th December 2023 | |
1 Blackrod is a Parliamentary official.
| Re: Odd one out - AQ 16th December Posted by ellendune at 17:32, 16th December 2023 | |
| Re: Odd one out - AQ 16th December Posted by Oxonhutch at 21:13, 16th December 2023 | |
Its also a station in Lancashire
And until recently had a working signalbox as did Blackpool North.
| Re: Odd one out - AQ 16th December Posted by Merthyr Imp at 00:40, 17th December 2023 | |
2 Ulverston is the only one not to have featured in a TV series or a film.
Liss - Great St Trinians Train Robbery
Brandon and Weyborne - both Dad's Army (TV)
Oakworth - Railway Children (TV and film)
Kings Cross and Goathland - both Harry Potter
| Re: Odd one out - AQ 16th December Posted by grahame at 01:49, 17th December 2023 | |
2 Ulverston is the only one not to have featured in a TV series or a film.
Liss - Great St Trinians Train Robbery
Brandon and Weyborne - both Dad's Army (TV)
Oakworth - Railway Children (TV and film)
Kings Cross and Goathland - both Harry Potter
Liss - Great St Trinians Train Robbery
Brandon and Weyborne - both Dad's Army (TV)
Oakworth - Railway Children (TV and film)
Kings Cross and Goathland - both Harry Potter
Yes, that is exactly what I had as the odd one out.
| Re: Odd one out - AQ 16th December Posted by JayMac at 04:08, 17th December 2023 | |
2 Ulverston is the only one not to have featured in a TV series or a film.
Series 2, episode 4 of Michael Portillo's Great Coastal Railway Journeys featured him at Ulverston station.
| Re: Odd one out - AQ 16th December Posted by grahame at 05:47, 18th December 2023 | |
There are various odd ones out here ... I had Blackpool Central, but why?
Odd one out, and why - from each of these groups:
1.
Black Dog Halt
Blackdyke Halt
Blackhall Colliery
Black Horse Road
Blackpool Central
Blackpool North
Blackrod
Blackwell
1.
Black Dog Halt
Blackdyke Halt
Blackhall Colliery
Black Horse Road
Blackpool Central
Blackpool North
Blackrod
Blackwell
| Re: Odd one out - AQ 16th December Posted by Merthyr Imp at 08:52, 18th December 2023 | |
2 Ulverston is the only one not to have featured in a TV series or a film.
Series 2, episode 4 of Michael Portillo's Great Coastal Railway Journeys featured him at Ulverston station.
Perhaps I should have inserted the word fictional somewhere.
| Re: Odd one out - AQ 16th December Posted by Oxonhutch at 08:57, 18th December 2023 | |
There are various odd ones out here ... I had Blackpool Central, but why?
All the others aren't a tatty car/coach park and a general carbuncle on the town that it hosts.
One must remember that this was a self inflicted wound as Central was not on Beeching's list for closure.
| Re: Odd one out - AQ 16th December Posted by Mark A at 09:00, 18th December 2023 | |
54 trains per day to zero overnight. Blackpool Central must count as the most precipitous railway station decline and closure.
Mark
| Re: Odd one out - AQ 16th December Posted by ellendune at 10:07, 18th December 2023 | |
I did think of Blackpool Central, but it wasn't the only one closed and the railway removed.
54 trains per day to zero overnight. Blackpool Central must count as the most precipitous railway station decline and closure.
Did Blackpool North initially take all those 54 trains a day or was there some rationalisation?
| Re: Odd one out - AQ 16th December Posted by Oxonhutch at 10:57, 18th December 2023 | |
Did Blackpool North initially take all those 54 trains a day or was there some rationalisation?
Blackpool North (the town's main station today) was the one slated to close but the Corporation cast their greedy eye on the railway estate of Central that lay just behind the promenade and came to a cheap deal with BR to swap the two stations around. Those 54 services terminated short at Blackpool South for nigh on 7 years which was clearly unsustainable with only two working platforms. I think the last London Euston express moved to the North station in 1972. Today, the line to Blackpool South is just a withered single track siding with a train service to match.
| Re: Odd one out - AQ 16th December Posted by grahame at 11:10, 18th December 2023 | |
Blackpool Central IS the odd one out I had identified, and some of you are quite close to identifying why that is/was.
| Re: Odd one out - AQ 16th December Posted by Oxonhutch at 12:33, 18th December 2023 | |
Blackpool Central IS the odd one out I had identified, and some of you are quite close to identifying why that is/was.
Part of the original station - the excursion platforms toilet block - still exists and is in use. Don't know if North has any toilets!
| Re: Odd one out - AQ 16th December Posted by JayMac at 14:23, 18th December 2023 | |
Blackpool Central IS the odd one out I had identified, and some of you are quite close to identifying why that is/was.
Part of the original station - the excursion platforms toilet block - still exists and is in use. Don't know if North has any toilets!
That toilet block was demolished in 2009. Replaced with more modern facilities.
StreetView comparison. May 2009 - July 2021
| Re: Odd one out - AQ 16th December Posted by Oxonhutch at 17:45, 18th December 2023 | |
| Re: Odd one out - AQ 16th December Posted by grahame at 11:26, 19th December 2023 | |
Odd one out, and why - from each of these groups:
1.
Black Dog Halt
Blackdyke Halt
Blackhall Colliery
Black Horse Road
Blackpool Central
Blackpool North
Blackrod
Blackwell
1.
Black Dog Halt
Blackdyke Halt
Blackhall Colliery
Black Horse Road
Blackpool Central
Blackpool North
Blackrod
Blackwell
3 days ... and whilst some of you have guessed that Blackpool Central is the odd one out ... I haven't quite read that it's the only one of those stations that was NOT proposed for closure in the Beeching report.
