Sort of Railbenders, but not quite. Well, actually ...

[barrykas]

Hrm...I can come up with four stations sharing the same root for number 9: Barry, Barry Docks, Barry Island and Barry Links. Considerably more than 318 miles between them though, at 463.75!

How about Barrow Haven, Barrow-in-Furness and Barrow upon Soar? Or Bromley Cross, Bromley North and Bromley South? Or Moreton (Dorset), Moreton (Merseyside) and Moreton-in-Marsh? Or Walton (Merseyside), Walton-on-the-Naze and Walton-on-Thames? Or for another four, Hampton, Hampton-in-Arden, Hampton Court and Hampton Wick?

[tubeguru]

You're doing very well to get the answer right, but as I said before, the name of the place in all three cases is ONE word, and the town the station serves has the same name in each case.

[tangy]

You are EVL, Tubeguru.

The answer to this just sprang into my head when I was underneath a lorry yesterday.

it's Whitchurch (one in the cardiff suburbs, one near Andover and the other between Crewe and Shrewsbury)

[tubeguru]

Do you often have moments of clarity when involved in road traffic accidents?

[Nigel]

Do you often have moments of clarity when involved in road traffic accidents?

Not sure about effect of an RTA on generating ideas, but the mathematician Henri Poincare had the key concept in the development of automorphic functions just come into his head when stepping on to a bus, while not consciously thinking about it at the time.

[tubeguru]

Do you often have moments of clarity when involved in road traffic accidents?

Not sure about effect of an RTA on generating ideas, but the mathematician Henri Poincare had the key concept in the development of automorphic functions just come into his head when stepping on to a bus, while not consciously thinking about it at the time.

While I would not recommend that method for finding the answers to these questions, it would appear that it has worked for Tangy, as the correct answer to that question was indeed Whitchurch. There is one in Hampshire, Shropshire and Cardiff.

[tangy]

Of course, by underneath a lorry, I mean with relation to my work as a mechanic and with the lorry up high on lifters with me checking the chassis components!!!

[tubeguru]

Bonus question:

One railway "region" in the UK possesses no fewer than FOUR junctions all with the same name. What is the shared name of these junctions, and where can they be found?

Note - there may be more than one group of four, but I'd be very surprised if there were.

[tubeguru]

Am I to take it that some of you might like a clue or two to some of these?

[perkyperky]

3 Lancaster, Liverpool, Leicester, London, Westminster, Oxford.

9 Burnham

[tubeguru]

9 Burnham

See several posts up. The correct answer is WHITCHURCH.

[perkyperky]

Oops!

[barrykas]

One railway "region" in the UK possesses no fewer than FOUR junctions all with the same name. What is the shared name of these junctions, and where can they be found?

I've found a triplet on the Southern, though it's probably cheating...Latchmere Junctions 1, 2 and 3. Can't find the foursome anywhere obvious.

[Urzzz1871]

2 - Slough has 6 platforms

[tubeguru]

One railway "region" in the UK possesses no fewer than FOUR junctions all with the same name. What is the shared name of these junctions, and where can they be found?

I've found a triplet on the Southern, though it's probably cheating...Latchmere Junctions 1, 2 and 3. Can't find the foursome anywhere obvious.

Yeah, slightly cheating. Their name is descriptive of a railway feature.