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« Reply #75 on: November 11, 2018, 13:24:58 » |
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A great challenge. Thanks and Well done. For 28 I submit "Flyn" for a bonus point.
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« Reply #76 on: November 11, 2018, 13:39:09 » |
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33 looks to be on a still-open line - there's a station name in the background - and we were given the clue that it has been there since 1900. So that may point to a GWR▸ cut-off or the GC» or Joint?
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« Reply #77 on: November 11, 2018, 13:42:38 » |
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Now left to answer are: 11. Penrhyn, Ffestiniog Railway. PhilWakely  29. Lappa Valley Railway. ellendune  30. Manchester Oxford Road. Adelante_CCT  33. Hoveton & Wroxham. stuving  I'll give some clues later today. if these aren't guessed. |
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« Reply #78 on: November 11, 2018, 15:58:10 » |
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33: Hoveton (& Wroxham)
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« Reply #79 on: November 11, 2018, 16:06:35 » |
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33: Hoveton (& Wroxham)
Correct! Former Great Eastern, now Greater Anglia. |
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« Reply #80 on: November 11, 2018, 17:29:12 » |
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Clues then.
11. Add an 'h' and we're not in Cornwall.
29. We are in Cornwall.
30. Can you make a Money Claim Online here?
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« Reply #81 on: November 11, 2018, 17:37:38 » |
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33: Hoveton (& Wroxham)
Correct! Former Great Eastern, now Greater Anglia. I think strictly that should have been either Wroxham (the name on the other end of the signal box, and of the Bure Valley Railway station) or Hoveton (the nearest part of the town of Wroxham is the village of Hoveton that it has now engulfed) but not both. Hoveton & Wroxham is the name of the GA▸ station, but the signal box now belongs to its own trust, not to Network Rail nor to the Bure Valley Railway. It has also been moved, by a few feet, as it obstructed the sighting of one of the new signals that replace its own ones. Surely there must be a simpler way of solving that problem, with some kind of extra signal ... |
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« Reply #82 on: November 11, 2018, 18:17:05 » |
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29 Lappa Valley?
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« Reply #83 on: November 11, 2018, 18:29:46 » |
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11. Penrhyn station, Ffestiniog Railway
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« Reply #84 on: November 11, 2018, 18:36:06 » |
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30 - Manchester Oxford Road
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« Reply #85 on: November 11, 2018, 21:12:46 » |
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33: Hoveton (& Wroxham)
Correct! Former Great Eastern, now Greater Anglia. I think strictly that should have been either Wroxham (the name on the other end of the signal box, and of the Bure Valley Railway station) or Hoveton (the nearest part of the town of Wroxham is the village of Hoveton that it has now engulfed) but not both. Hoveton & Wroxham is the name of the GA▸ station, but the signal box now belongs to its own trust, not to Network Rail nor to the Bure Valley Railway. It has also been moved, by a few feet, as it obstructed the sighting of one of the new signals that replace its own ones. Surely there must be a simpler way of solving that problem, with some kind of extra signal ... And I thought I was a pedant par excellence.  Nearest passenger station (brackets or not) is good enough for me. |
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« Reply #86 on: November 11, 2018, 21:27:00 » |
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29 Lappa Valley?
Correct! 11. Penrhyn station, Ffestiniog Railway
Correct! 30 - Manchester Oxford Road
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And that completes the quiz. Well done to all who took part. Your prizes are a pat on the back, and the warm glow from knowing what excellent ferroequinologists you all are! Finally, a crop and zoom from image no. 3. A bonus caption competition. Best rail/sheep pun wins.  |
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« Reply #87 on: November 11, 2018, 21:49:13 » |
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Finally, a crop and zoom from image no. 3. A bonus caption competition. Best rail/sheep pun wins.
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« Reply #88 on: November 11, 2018, 21:50:08 » |
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Bah! Humbug!
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Things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.
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« Reply #89 on: November 11, 2018, 22:03:29 » |
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"Oy!, you with the nose! Keep your mutt on a lead - else I'll ram ewe!" *** Sorry Finn, don't really mean it  *** |
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