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« on: April 16, 2014, 21:56:32 »
Came across this Great Western Leaflet in a second hand shop and thought it might occupy a few minutes over Easter.

Keep the answers to yourself when you have solved them -  but I'll post the last page with the solutions after Easter.
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« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2014, 01:39:20 »
Thanks for posting, bobm.  Wink

Blimey! I'm struggling with some of these ...  Roll Eyes
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William Huskisson MP▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post - a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London, depending on context) was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830.  Many more have died in the same way since then.  Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.

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« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2014, 21:24:37 »
I'm still working on them - just giving a gentle 'bump' for this topic ...  Wink
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William Huskisson MP▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post - a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London, depending on context) was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830.  Many more have died in the same way since then.  Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.

"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner."  Discuss.
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« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2014, 21:52:29 »
Do we send our answers in on the back of a postcard?  Grin
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« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2014, 08:07:42 »
And here, as promised, are the answers



I think the younger generation in the 1930s could have shown us a thing or two if they successfully answered all these correctly.  Grin
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« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2014, 15:52:01 »
What about the answers to the teasers Question 8?

The one about three tail lamps is interesting. Glasson tells of being on the Up Relief between Didcot and Reading and finding a freight train in front with two red lights and white! Quite unerving until they realised it was on the Up Main! Apprently it was the guards job to change lights when the train changed lines. They tried to rouse the guard but he seemed to be asleep.

Also the 100mph much contested!

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« Reply #6 on: April 22, 2014, 15:56:56 »
I hadn't spotted that eightf48544.  No mention of it on the leaflet - posted in its entirety.

By the way is it Gasson or Glasson - read his books and they make fascinating reading as do Adrian Vaughan's ones set a bit further west.
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« Reply #7 on: April 22, 2014, 16:01:10 »
Quote from: eightf48544 on April 22, 2014, 15:52:01
What about the answers to the teasers Question 8?

Only one answer makes sense in each case bearing in mind the questions.   For example, if there was a question "what do you find on the front of every train that passes North Pole" then the logical answer wouldn't be "101 miles in 60 minutes", nor "Bodmin Road".
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« Reply #8 on: April 22, 2014, 22:10:47 »
Grahame ypour question "what do you find on the front of every train that passes North Pole" has really stumped me.

i can only think of a headlight.
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