Title: Advent quiz - day 12 - Station names Post by: grahame on December 12, 2021, 04:36:03 Can you place any (one each, please) of these groups?
A. Eight Sisters Brenfourod Eight Ways Seven Bridge Eleven Mile Bottom Ten Oaks Steight B. Losesparish Pyjamastunnel Platecomb Brownshout Uber Jeckel Greentrain C. Kroy Yaws Yellav Yelrup Yesmor Y Llanep Y Rubs Elya D. Cheltenham Tree Clareston Spa Fort Road Bristol Matilda Portsmouth Parkway High Arms Cherry Brooms E. Qompoph Veapvup Fipnesl Jomm Tahes Mueg Fott Cmedlcasp Wemmiz Title: Re: Advent quiz - day 12 - Station names Post by: PrestburyRoad on December 12, 2021, 07:18:51 D. Your signwriter has put each word on a separate panel and then the panels in the second column slipped down one level while the paint was drying. At least he didn't give up and put the second words back at random before displaying the signs. Mind you he did miss out the "b" in "Clarbeston".
Cheltenham Spa Clareston Road Fort Matilda Bristol Parkway Portsmouth Arms High Brooms Cherry Tree Title: Re: Advent quiz - day 12 - Station names Post by: PhilWakely on December 12, 2021, 08:06:58 A. Eight Sisters Brenfourod Eight Ways Seven Bridge Eleven Mile Bottom Ten Oaks Steight A. The number representation in the name has been substituted in the list as follows (x+1; x+2; x+3, etc ) Eight Sisters SEVEN Sisters (7 +1) Brenfourod BrenTWOod (2 +2) Eight Ways FIVE Ways (5 +3) Seven Bridge THREE Bridges (3 +4) (You missed the s off Bridges!) Eleven Mile Bottom SIX Mile Bottom (6 +5) Ten Oaks FOUR Oaks (4 +6) Steight StONE (1 +7) Title: Re: Advent quiz - day 12 - Station names Post by: grahame on December 12, 2021, 08:14:13 D. Your signwriter has put each word on a separate panel and then the panels in the second column slipped down one level while the paint was drying. At least he didn't give up and put the second words back at random before displaying the signs. Mind you he did miss out the "b" in "Clarbeston". Cheltenham Spa Clareston Road Fort Matilda Bristol Parkway Portsmouth Arms High Brooms Cherry Tree Correct - and sadly he then overcorrected: (http://www.wellho.net/demo/totemnew.php?main=Clarbeston+Matilda®ion=4&font=britrln_.ttf&above=&below=Change+for+Utter+Confusion) Title: Re: Advent quiz - day 12 - Station names Post by: grahame on December 12, 2021, 08:18:13 A. The number representation in the name has been substituted in the list as follows (x+1; x+2; x+3, etc ) Eight Sisters SEVEN Sisters (7 +1) Brenfourod BrenTWOod (2 +2) Eight Ways FIVE Ways (5 +3) Seven Bridge THREE Bridges (3 +4) (You missed the s off Bridge!) Eleven Mile Bottom SIX Mile Bottom (6 +5) Ten Oaks FOUR Oaks (4 +6) Steight StONE (1 +7) Correct - and you notice the pattern in my distortion two. Title: Re: Advent quiz - day 12 - Station names Post by: Reginald25 on December 12, 2021, 08:33:58 C reverse letters
Kroy YORK Yaws SWAY Yellav VALLEY Yelrup PURLEY Yesmor ROMSEY Y Llanep PENALLY Y Rubs Elya AYLESBURY Title: Re: Advent quiz - day 12 - Station names Post by: grahame on December 12, 2021, 08:41:44 C reverse letters Kroy YORK Yaws SWAY Yellav VALLEY Yelrup PURLEY Yesmor ROMSEY Y Llanep PENALLY Y Rubs Elya AYLESBURY Correct - I should have included Not Nuat to make this a classic quiz, should I not? Title: Re: Advent quiz - day 12 - Station names Post by: stuving on December 12, 2021, 12:48:20 Correct - I should have included Not Nuat to make this a classic quiz, should I not? Ah, but you got it into E: Pilning Taunton Denmark Hill Sugar Loaf Diss Blackburn Valley The simplest of substitution cyphers, replacing each letter by its successor in the alphabet, but complicated by doing the vowels and consonants separately (to conserve pronounceability, no doubt). Title: Re: Advent quiz - day 12 - Station names Post by: eightonedee on December 12, 2021, 20:23:47 The list at B has been bugging me all day.
I think they are all cryptic crossword clues - but I cannot work out two of them (Platecomb and Brownshout). So this might be (in football terms) an "assist" to someone who can crack the last two and claim the honour, but I think the rest are- 1 - Gainsborough 2 - Coatbridge 5 - Overton 6 - Hyde 7 - Redcar Title: Re: Advent quiz - day 12 - Station names Post by: grahame on December 12, 2021, 20:39:11 The list at B has been bugging me all day. I think they are all cryptic crossword clues - but I cannot work out two of them (Platecomb and Brownshout). So this might be (in football terms) an "assist" to someone who can crack the last two and claim the honour, but I think the rest are- 1 - Gainsborough 2 - Coatbridge 5 - Overton 6 - Hyde 7 - Redcar I had a different answer to no.5, you are correct on the others. I can remember what no.4 is supposed to be but !oops! I am trying to remember how I came up with "Platecomb" and I, too, could do with an assist. I'm sure I'll remember when someone gets it right! Title: Re: Advent quiz - day 12 - Station names Post by: brooklea on December 13, 2021, 08:26:00 The list at B has been bugging me all day. I think they are all cryptic crossword clues - but I cannot work out two of them (Platecomb and Brownshout). So this might be (in football terms) an "assist" to someone who can crack the last two and claim the honour, but I think the rest are- 1 - Gainsborough 2 - Coatbridge 5 - Overton 6 - Hyde 7 - Redcar I think 4 could be Greenock. Stumped by 3 (to continue the sporting analogies!). Title: Re: Advent quiz - day 12 - Station names Post by: grahame on December 13, 2021, 10:18:01 I think 4 could be Greenock. Stumped by 3 (to continue the sporting analogies!). It is - and for Uber I had Hackney (rather than Overton). Also still stumped by my own No. 3 - Platecomb. Title: Re: Advent quiz - day 12 - Station names Post by: ellendune on December 13, 2021, 13:58:19 Also still stumped by my own No. 3 - Platecomb. The obvious possibilities are Cupar and Bowling but not sure how you get the second part of the word in either case.This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |