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Author Topic: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face?  (Read 2976 times)
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« Reply #15 on: December 02, 2024, 11:05:46 »

1A: George Stephenson
1D: Heidi Alexander
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« Reply #16 on: December 02, 2024, 11:18:17 »

1A: George Stephenson
1D: Heidi Alexander

8 to go, including 3 which are so blindingly obvious that I suspect that everyone is leaving them in favour of giving more obscure answers.

I did wonder how long it would take for our new Secretary of State for Transport to be identified.
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« Reply #17 on: December 02, 2024, 11:53:52 »


3B = Colonel Holman Stephens
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« Reply #18 on: December 02, 2024, 11:59:56 »

Try as I might I can't see Charles Tyson Yerkes.  (OK, I confess that I'm a fan of Jago Hazzard's YouTube videos, in which CTY is frequently mentioned, often along with a mention of his financial 'reputation'.)
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« Reply #19 on: December 02, 2024, 14:08:52 »


3C = Tom Hanks
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« Reply #20 on: December 02, 2024, 15:20:15 »

Going back to A2, are there some barons building Denmark in the background?

[Edit: The cryptic crossword clue should probably read something like 'Barons building Denmark engineered a railway (8,7,6)']

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« Reply #21 on: December 02, 2024, 16:53:20 »

Row 2, Column A: Werner von Siemens (1816-1892)  Smiley

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William Huskisson MP (Member of Parliament) 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 #22 on: December 02, 2024, 16:55:54 »

First face on the last row is former Secretary of State for Transport, Stephen Byers.
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« Reply #23 on: December 02, 2024, 17:57:52 »

4A is Magnus Volk.
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« Reply #24 on: December 02, 2024, 19:02:35 »

https://www.wellho.info/pix/wq30.jpg
A2 Sir Nigel Gresley when do I claim my Fiver Tim...
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« Reply #25 on: December 02, 2024, 19:14:12 »

Erm ... I rather think you're getting your rows and columns mixed up: we are all desperately trying to identify the apparently Victorian character in Row 1, Column B.  Wink
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« Reply #26 on: December 02, 2024, 19:37:19 »

I K B only real picture of him known to exist he's standing in front of the drag chains that would eventually help with the delayed launch of the Great Eastern.
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« Reply #27 on: December 02, 2024, 19:42:56 »

4B Thomas the tank Engine
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« Reply #28 on: December 02, 2024, 23:12:02 »

4B Thomas the tank Engine

When I see how many different names some locomotives have been through in their lives, I wonder how Thomas has managed to go unaltered for so many years.

Just two left ... bottom right and just up from there - the ones without the green dots:

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« Reply #29 on: December 03, 2024, 00:36:26 »

I was looking at 4D and thinking he does look familiar, when it struck me - it's Colin Rosenstiel, isn't it?
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