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16:52 Worcester Foregate Street to Bristol Temple Meads
16:55 Exmouth to Paignton
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17:00 Oxford to London Paddington
17:17 Paignton to Exmouth
17:23 London Paddington to Oxford
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17:59 Oxford to London Paddington
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18:50 Paignton to Exmouth
18:57 Oxford to London Paddington
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19:38 Didcot Parkway to London Paddington
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19:42 Barnstaple to Exeter Central
19:44 Swindon to Westbury
19:59 Oxford to London Paddington
20:00 London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads
20:01 Severn Beach to Bristol Temple Meads
20:03 Worcester Foregate Street to London Paddington
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« on: February 19, 2017, 23:34:56 »
[edit] - 18th February 2022 - for "On this Day".   From five years back, the quiz is still live!

https://www.boombox.com/c/quiz/350973/how-well-do-you-know-your-uk-train-stations

A picture quiz I found online. For me, rather easy. I got 15/15.

The question order is randomised.
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« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2017, 10:39:26 »
14/15 Mixed up York and Sheffield. My first though was Sheffield.
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« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2017, 11:10:29 »
13/15 not to shabby for a quick game.
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« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2017, 12:31:07 »
13/15 got the last one wrong.
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« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2017, 13:04:45 »
15/15, certainly made me think on one or two
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« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2017, 13:18:03 »
all right.
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« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2017, 13:59:48 »
13/15 not too bad as I'm not so familiar with the railways "up north".
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« Reply #7 on: February 20, 2017, 14:35:08 »
15/15 - though only having three choices for each entry does make it easier. Reading was the hardest as I haven't been since it was rebuilt.

None the less, it does illustrate a "wasted" life spent passing through railway stations 😀
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« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2024, 02:38:20 »
Quote from: JayMac on February 19, 2017, 23:34:56
[edit] - 18th February 2022 - for "On this Day".   From five years back, the quiz is still live!

https://www.boombox.com/c/quiz/350973/how-well-do-you-know-your-uk-train-stations

And now 7 years back, it appears that the server is gone ... how transient is the internet and web sites on it! Perhaps a chance to "advertise" (remind members about) our document mirror at http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/mirror/ with over 1000 documents which may become harder to find over time. Note the suggestion at the top of that page that you use the search engine I have written to find the documents that you want (and forum threads too) rather that trawling the list manually
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« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2026, 07:21:39 »
Original quiz may have gone ... but looking around I found this one and managed to name the 14 stations in the Bristol area in 2 and a half minutes of the five allowed. More a test of typing speed than having to think about the answers.

https://www.sporcle.com/games/opi96/bristol
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