We travelled from Salisbury to Bristol on Sunday afternoon, taking the rail replacement service from Salisbury to Trowbridge. Everything worked well and ran to time (the coach making quite prolonged stops at Warminster and Westbury), and the train at Trowbridge was waiting at the platform, ready for us to board when the coach arrived. Since we had many bags, I was relieved that the vehicle was a coach, with a luggage compartment under the seats, rather than a bus.

Could it have been Tchaikovsky? I’m posting on my phone, and so can’t easily provide a link, but I believe he visited Vienna several times between 1870 and 1892, by which time the railways were operating.

There could be a more fundamental inconsistency there. Mozart died in 1791, and according to Wikipedia the first main line railway in Austria opened in 1837.

My reasoning was that, while Thurso was of course designed and built as a terminus, if we look at Realtime Trains for today (for example), we find eight trains calling at Thurso, none of which terminates there.

I was thinking the most northerly.

6. Is that the Severn Beach line?

I was caught up in this last week. It was evident that the rail replacement bus times hadn't taken sufficient account of the roadworks between Bristol and Bath.

On Thursday, I needed to travel from Bristol to Salisbury and back to collect the young Kempis from family. National Rail Enquiries offered an itinerary leaving Clifton Down at 10.00 and arriving at Salisbury at 12.32, including a bus between Bristol and Bath. But the bus was delayed by the works at the Globe roundabout noted in the BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) report and missed the connecting train at Bath Spa. So I didn't arrive at Salisbury until 13.32.

I was met by the family at Salisbury station, and so we could have travelled straight back, but the 13.42 from Salisbury was cancelled. We took the 14.42, had to wait for the bus at Bath (the buses didn't seem to be running to schedule), were again held up by long delays approaching the Globe, and arrived at Clifton Down at 18.07.

So that was eight hours in all, on the train or waiting at stations, for a return journey that would normally take about two hours each way. At least we made it back in time for the young Kempis to go trick-or-treating.

9. Westbury.

10. Berlin Hauptbahnhof.

8. Exeter St Davids.

In that case, I think 24 might be Wexford.

Is 24 Cobh?

f. Hungary (Budapest Keleti).

As to the resort itself, Wikipedia says: 'Graal-Müritz is among the most popular German destinations for tourism and health cures alike. . . . The town offers many hotels, restaurants, a 5-kilometre (3.1 mi) beach, a public Rhododendron Park and a well-being and fitness centre.' Again, not quite like Severn Beach (except, perhaps, in one's dreams . . .).

Graal-Müritz, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern?