Can you name the most commonly occuring words in the names of stations on Network Rail?

created by thecheshirecat

Enter a word in the box below
Correctly named words will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
Source: Network Rail station index
Words must be discrete. Hyphens are considered to separate different words in a name.
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Starting Letter	Word	Number of Instances
A		52
P		51
R		49
S		35
W		35
H		32
S		30
C		29
B		28
G		27
N		27
S		27
E		24
L		21
N		21
J		19
T		19
O		18
P		18
W		14
H		12
L		12
M		12
C		11
H		11
S		11

Starting Letter	Word	Number of Instances
A		10
B		9
E		8
I		8
I		8
K		8
N		8
G		7
P		7
Q		7
F		6
G		6
G		6
O		6
S		6
T		6
U		6
Y		6
C		5
D		5
F		5
H		5
L		5
M		5
M		5
O		5

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British Railway Network Words Quiz

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Created Dec 22, 2010 in Geography
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	Colmar:	May 15th, 2011 at 16:35 GMT		6 points
	I really am kicking myself over not getting some obvious ones like '&' and 'Airport.' My best answer was 'Port.'

	Triffid:	May 15th, 2011 at 16:55 GMT		3 points
	Delightful.

	Peterlie:	May 15th, 2011 at 16:59 GMT		4 points
	Missed 'and' entirely. Brilliant idea though. Feel like I've been to most of them.

	Drakoulias:	May 15th, 2011 at 17:11 GMT		17 points
	Was really hoping for 'Station' to be there.

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	Stran:	May 15th, 2011 at 17:38 GMT		12 points
	Hours spent waiting at cold stations for commuter trains have finally paid off! :-)

	jbazak:	May 15th, 2011 at 18:57 GMT		4 points
	Was really hoping for hogwarts

	bandersnatch:	May 15th, 2011 at 19:32 GMT		26 points
	Could you rephrase 'St' to 'St/Saint' or equivalent? When it came up I thought it was an abbreviation for 'Street' so I never tried 'Street'..

	Patrick_WWFC:	May 15th, 2011 at 20:29 GMT		6 points
	Got a point for 'Of' but no 'Isle' or 'Sodor'

	chikka2:	May 15th, 2011 at 20:54 GMT		4 points
	I'd like to thank Agatha Christie,Logic Problems magazine,J.K. Rowling, Childe's folksongs, Robin Hood....many words are not in my Canadian experience but I'm fascinated!

	Sollair:	May 15th, 2011 at 21:33 GMT		2 points
	Great and original! But I'll try it again as I'm definitely not satisfied with my score. Thanks!

	The_Snakes:	May 16th, 2011 at 00:01 GMT		1 point
	Great quiz!

	zamboni:	May 16th, 2011 at 00:16 GMT		8 points
	Excellent. I thought this would be impossible until I realized that the words had to be common and either geographical or structural. It is fun to have a puzzle that is more than memory.

	thebombdiggity15:	May 16th, 2011 at 00:29 GMT		2 points
	I don't know why people are down voting Mistakenblood. I had no clue what I was guessing and it was fun. Railways aren't prominent in the US.

	marisbest:	May 16th, 2011 at 01:23 GMT		5 points
	got a bunch. missed alot more... what in the world is "Th" or "y" ??

	Mistakenblood:	May 16th, 2011 at 02:25 GMT		2 points
	@thebombdiggity15: I don't get it either. I would think someone would explain it instead of just voting me down.

	planetmutty:	May 16th, 2011 at 02:36 GMT		3 points
	Agree with Bandersnatch, I did the same thing. I also later tried 'Saint' and couldn't understand why it wouldn't work. That's my only complaint, so good quiz.

	thecheshirecat:	May 16th, 2011 at 07:52 GMT		7 points
	@mistakenblood. The explanation. Network Rail is the organisation that owns the infrastructure of the national rail network in Great Britain. This quiz is asking which words come up most frequently in the station names around the network.

	raspberry:	May 16th, 2011 at 07:52 GMT		6 points
	@marisbest, I assume that Y is from the stations in Wales like Pen y bont and Y fenni. @mistakenblood you're guessing the most used words in the names of railway station in Uk. So as well as the town or city name they usually have other directions like 'Liverpool Lime Street' or 'Brimingham New Street' or 'London King's Cross'.

	thecheshirecat:	May 16th, 2011 at 07:54 GMT		4 points
	@bandersnatch (good to see somebody else has a Lewis Carroll inspired name) and @planetmutty: Sorry, can't fix this now the games been published.

	thecheshirecat:	May 16th, 2011 at 07:59 GMT		5 points
	@marisbest: 'y' is common to a lot of Welsh placenames and, according to Wikipedia, means 'the'. th' is just an abbreviation for the, and comes up in the station in Bolton called Hall i'th' Wood.

	raspberry:	May 16th, 2011 at 08:04 GMT		-1 points
	@thecheshirecat technically it doesn't mean anything, its just a odd letter dropped in (don't ask me, I'm welsh and I don't get it either)

	TheCowboy:	May 16th, 2011 at 12:35 GMT		3 points
	Gah, I didn't even get one of the words in the station I use every day! Shame on me!

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	tahitiwahini:	May 19th, 2011 at 11:47 GMT		5 points
	@raspberry: According to this online dictionary (http://www.geiriadur.net/index.php?&page=bannod&prefLang=), "y" functions in Welsh grammar as a definite article (equivalent to "the" in English). So it does have a grammatical purpose, namely a specifying or particularizing effect for the noun it's used with, sometimes indicating that the noun is unique or well-known, rather than indefinite or general.

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	Driverbod:	Jul 30th, 2011 at 01:29 GMT		1 point
	There are indeed 6 (Welsh) stations with "Y" as a single word in the name, 3 of them on one line! Would it be bad form to list them for the benefit of confused people who commented above?

	aussiec:	Aug 17th, 2011 at 16:41 GMT		1 point
	@thecheshirecat: i enjoyed your comment as i frequently go through hall 'i'th' wood to get to bromley cross station. Unfortunately despite the fact that i seem to spend a ridiculous amount of time on trains i still missed loads. Still enjoyed this quiz :)

	thecheshirecat:	Aug 18th, 2011 at 21:30 GMT		3 points
	@Driverbod: Tal-y-cafn, Betws-y-Coed, Pont-y-Pant, (all on the Conwy Valley line), Cefn-y-Bedd, Pen-y-Bont, Troed-y-rhiw. @aussiec: If the driver of your train to Bromley Cross looks like the picture on the left, there's a very good reason

	Thryduulf:	Sep 13th, 2011 at 00:40 GMT		3 points
	Was rather surprised "Victoria" wasn't on the list, but it seems only London, Southend and Manchester Victorias survive (Nottingham, Sheffield, Norwich, Swansea and possibly others have closed).

	WSFBumblebee:	Nov 7th, 2011 at 16:11 GMT		2 points
	4/52!! I am so good at this!! =/

	crested_newt:	Nov 14th, 2011 at 21:27 GMT		3 points
	Surprised by the lack of 'spa', 'wells' and 'upon'. I'm probably fixated on a few stations I know!

	blairio:	Apr 5th, 2012 at 14:11 GMT		1 point
	hard