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« Reply #255 on: December 24, 2018, 07:57:11 » |
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24.1 I got a hunch the place begins with 'I'.
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« Reply #256 on: December 24, 2018, 08:20:54 » |
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24.1 I got a hunch the place begins with 'I'.
IBM? Inverness? Neither Inverkeithing? Ilford? Niver Iver  |
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« Reply #257 on: December 24, 2018, 08:22:56 » |
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24.1 I got a hunch the place begins with 'I'.
IBM? Inverness? Neither Inverkeithing? Iver? Neither Iver Surely you're meaning either Imperial Wharf or Ingatestone .... |
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« Reply #258 on: December 24, 2018, 08:32:23 » |
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24.1 I got a hunch the place begins with 'I'.
IBM? Inverness? Neither Inverkeithing? Ilford? Neither Iver Surely you're meaning either Imperial Wharf or Ingatestone .... Not them as well. |
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« Reply #259 on: December 24, 2018, 08:43:48 » |
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24.1 Ilfracombe
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« Reply #260 on: December 24, 2018, 10:06:53 » |
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24.1 Ilfracombe
Nobody has tried 23.1 yet. Is it somewhere in the Northern Heights? |
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« Reply #261 on: December 24, 2018, 10:50:50 » |
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24.1 Ilfracombe
Yes, it is. 24.1 Ilfracombe
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« Reply #262 on: December 24, 2018, 11:14:57 » |
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24.1 Ilfracombe
Yes, it is. Well I did give you a clue with the I-spy beginning with I. |
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« Reply #263 on: December 24, 2018, 11:21:45 » |
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24.1 Ilfracombe
Yes, it is. 24.1 Ilfracombe
Nobody has tried 23.1 yet. Is it somewhere in the Northern Heights? I don't think so ... I need to scroll back to remind myself, but I don't think "northern" could be much wronger ...  Wherever it is, thanks for doing the quiz. I - and I am sure many others - have enjoyed it greatly. |
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« Reply #264 on: December 24, 2018, 11:25:29 » |
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23.1 Montpelier, Bristol.
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« Reply #265 on: December 24, 2018, 11:29:26 » |
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Ilfracombe ... is one of the closures in the few years up to about 1975 that I feel least comfortable with, together with the lines through from Yeoford to Bere Alston, from Oxford via Milton Keynes and Bedford to Cambridge, and from Taunton to Minehead. Having visited Barnstaple for a railway conference a couple of years back, the massive amount of work needed to get it back even from Barnstaple Junction to Barnstaple Town probably makes it one of those least likely to be put back.
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« Reply #266 on: December 24, 2018, 11:29:34 » |
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23.1 Montpelier, Bristol.
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« Reply #267 on: December 24, 2018, 11:36:36 » |
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Ilfracombe ... is one of the closures in the few years up to about 1975 that I feel least comfortable with, together with the lines through from Yeoford to Bere Alston, from Oxford via Milton Keynes and Bedford to Cambridge, and from Taunton to Minehead. Having visited Barnstaple for a railway conference a couple of years back, the massive amount of work needed to get it back even from Barnstaple Junction to Barnstaple Town probably makes it one of those least likely to be put back.
A number of the later closures (Penrith-Keswick is another that comes to mind) were perfectly viable services that were axed for no other reason than that it was possible to 'replace' them with a bus service - something ontologists would refer to as a 'category error'. |
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« Reply #268 on: December 24, 2018, 12:10:32 » |
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Wherever it is, thanks for doing the quiz. I - and I am sure many others - have enjoyed it greatly.
It has been a real pleasure putting these pictures together. There are around 10 sources which I will correlate; many thanks to them all - an especial mention to SandTEngineer for quantity and variety of historic pictures. Every single one of those pictures really appreciated by me ... been great fun for me too. I've been delighted at some of the conversations stimulated, and I'm looking forward to taking so many more pictures next year! Linking to another thread, I hope 1X01 brings you what you're looking for tonight, and I share with you some more details of that train, courtesy of Chiltern Railways 4 December 2017 As we count down the days until Christmas, Chiltern Railways has unveiled the newest addition to its fleet – The Chiltern Santa Train which is believed to be the UK▸ ’s fastest sleigh. Led by Santa, the Chiltern Santa Train will fly down the track at 100 miles per hour and is the perfect way for Santa to deliver presents and transport customers with precious gifts between London Marylebone and Birmingham Moor Street. Conceived as part of Chiltern’s push for the UK to “Get Festive”, the company engaged specialist train sleigh makers, Charles Rayner LTD to install a magical vinyl ‘wrap’ of Santa’s sleigh on one of its silver trains. The train was transformed into a sleigh over a two-day period and will feature on the Chiltern line until after Christmas. Santa’s elves have also been recruited to bring Christmas cheer and will be helping customers at Chiltern stations. Other festive celebrations will include carolling at stations and Father Christmas taking his Santa Train on an adventure with specially selected families from Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Home-Start Banbury onboard for a day out in London on 16 December.  The Santa Train's first visit to Marylebone station |
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« Reply #269 on: December 24, 2018, 14:48:24 » |
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Nobody has tried 23.1 yet. Is it somewhere in the Northern Heights?
The heights of North Bristol... |
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