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« on: December 10, 2020, 08:01:49 » |
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Easier questions today. I hope this will get some more members involved.
Usual rules apply. Most of these are out of the Coffee shop area.
1, I am at a Station between Cambria Junction and Crofton road Junction. Where am I.
2, I am at a Station between the Severn tunnel and Patchway tunnels. Where am I.
3, I am in a tunnel between Dore South Junction and Dronfield station. Where am I.
4, I am at a Station between Staylybridge no 2 Junction and OA & GB▸ junction. Where am I.
5, I am at a summit between Holme tunnel and Kitson wood tunnel. Where am I.
6, I am at a Station between Longlands Junction and Castle Hills Junction. Where am I.
7, I am at a Station between Garnqueen North Junction and Greenhill Lower Junction. Where am I.
8, I am at a summit 900ft ASL between Riccarton Junction and Hawick. Where am I.
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Western Pathfinder
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« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2020, 08:27:52 » |
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Starting with low hanging fruit in the case of No2 your at Pilning Station.
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TonyN
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« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2020, 08:57:03 » |
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Starting with low hanging fruit in the case of No2 your at Pilning Station. Yes and it should be noted that I devised these questions for a Pub type quiz in 1992 long before the Coffee shop started or Pilning lost its footbridge. |
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« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2020, 09:17:09 » |
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Number 5: Copy Pit Summit ?
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« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2020, 09:21:51 » |
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For no. 7 there are two answers! I imagine Cumbernauld was expected, but Greenfaulds opened, just along the line, in 1989 so might have been missed in the original quiz.
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« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2020, 09:51:37 » |
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I really wanted 1 to be Loughborough Junction station so as to complete the triple of 'Junctions' (two as junctions and one as a station). But I cheated using Google and found it's the next station down the line rather than up. I have happy memories of commuting on the Catford Loop line in 1970 and I saw the Cambria Junction signal box many times and I still remember the name that looked so out of place for sarf Lunnun. The station name? - it sounds even more distant from the SE postcode - Denmark Hill.
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« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2020, 10:03:59 » |
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I really wanted 1 to be Loughborough Junction station so as to complete the triple of 'Junctions' (two as junctions and one as a station). But I cheated using Google and found it's the next station down the line rather than up. I have happy memories of commuting on the Catford Loop line in 1970 and I saw the Cambria Junction signal box many times and I still remember the name that looked so out of place for sarf Lunnun. The station name? - it sounds even more distant from the SE postcode - Denmark Hill.
Welcome to the forum. PrestburyRoad ... I leave it to TonyN to respond on the quiz ... but you brought back memories for me too of community in south London - sometimes though Denmark Hill which struck me as a dour four track station in a cutting - dark brick enclosing walls. 2 tracks on the South London Line (now part of the Overground?) and the other 2 served by the 83 Holborn Viaduct to Sevenoaks via Catford and Otford, or the 67 from Blackfriars at the weekend and late at night. I was commuting out to St Mary Cray, or to Petts Wood when there was a through train or good connection at Bromley South; where were you travelling to? |
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« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2020, 10:23:41 » |
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Hello grahame. I was commuting between Bellingham and Waterloo, via the Elephant. At the Elephant I changed from the 4-EPBs to the Bakerloo line with its 1938 stock that still had one splendid old 1923 car in each train - I preferred to sit in that car for its nostalgia value.
I worked out that the fastest route at the Elephant was to walk from the BR▸ station through the shopping centre, go down the Northern line lift, and walk along the Northern line platform and a short curved tunnel to the Bakerloo line platforms, rather than crossing the umpteen busy roads on the surface to get to the Bakerloo line station.
I also remember that the services were very reliable. For example, the 4-EPBs didn't break down, but then I suppose they were very simple - just a motor and a brake and nothing else to go wrong; also in their early middle age the reliability would have been at the best point in the 'bathtub curve' .
Ah, nostalgia.
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TonyN
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« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2020, 10:39:43 » |
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Number 5: Copy Pit Summit Yes |
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TonyN
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« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2020, 10:42:08 » |
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For no. 7 there are two answers! I imagine Cumbernauld was expected, but Greenfaulds opened, just along the line, in 1989 so might have been missed in the original quiz. Woops Yes quiz was based an old Baker rail atlas. Those crafty Scots are always re-opening stations. |
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TonyN
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« Reply #10 on: December 10, 2020, 10:43:48 » |
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The station name? - it sounds even more distant from the SE postcode - Denmark Hill. Yes |
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« Reply #11 on: December 10, 2020, 13:21:47 » |
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« Reply #12 on: December 10, 2020, 13:55:58 » |
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3 is the Bradway Tunnel, south of Sheffield
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TonyN
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« Reply #13 on: December 10, 2020, 14:10:15 » |
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TonyN
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« Reply #14 on: December 10, 2020, 14:11:01 » |
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3 is the Bradway Tunnel, south of Sheffield Yes |
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