Train GraphicClick on the map to explore geographics
 
I need help
FAQ
Emergency
About .
 Travel & transport from BBC stories as at 19:55 19 Apr 2025
 
- Race Across the World winner on 'authentic travel' and how to do it
Read about the forum [here].
Register [here] - it's free.
What do I gain from registering? [here]		 10/05/25 - BRTA Westbury
10/05/25 - Model Railsay Show, Calne
13/05/25 - Melksham TUG / AGM
14/05/25 - West Wiltshire RUG

On this day
19th Apr (1938)
Foundation, Beatties of London (link)
Train RunningCancelled
20:45 Bristol Temple Meads to Weymouth
21:23 Portsmouth Harbour to Westbury
21:32 Cheltenham Spa to Swindon
22:39 Swindon to Gloucester
Short Run
15:00 Cardiff Central to Penzance
17:27 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour
18:12 Salisbury to Cheltenham Spa
18:27 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour
18:52 Worcester Foregate Street to Bristol Temple Meads
•
PollsThere are no open or recent polls
•
Abbreviation pageAcronymns and abbreviations
•
Stn ComparatorStation Comparator
•
Rail newsNews Now - live rail news feed
•
Train companiesSelect from:
GWR
SWR
XC
Chiltern
TfL
TfW
WMR
Southern
• Site Style 1 2 3 4
Next departures • Bristol Temple Meads • Bath Spa • Chippenham • Swindon • Didcot Parkway • Reading • London Paddington • Melksham
Exeter St Davids • Taunton • Westbury • Trowbridge • Bristol Parkway • Cardiff Central • Oxford • Cheltenham Spa • Birmingham New Street
April 19, 2025, 20:00:13 *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Forgotten your username or password? - get a reminder
Most recently liked subjects
[122] FOSS and FOSW validity - some quirks
[120] St Erth station - facilities, footbridge, improvements, incide...
[92] Fifteen years of the Transwilts CRP
[80] Wiltshire Day Rover - new multi-operator bus ticket
[56] Annoying / amusing use of completely irrelevant stock photos t...
[49] Across the South West over Easter - trains in pictures
 
News: the Great Western Coffee Shop ... keeping you up to date with travel around the South West
 
   Home   Help Search Calendar Login Register  
Great Western Coffee Shop > Sideshoots - associated subjects > The Lighter Side > AQ04 - Three Letter Code grid
Pages: [1]
« previous next »
  Print  
Author Topic: AQ04 - Three Letter Code grid  (Read 2316 times)
grahame
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 43849



View Profile WWW Email
« on: December 04, 2024, 08:18:06 »
QUFTW
VQINT
NIKMA
DSTRS
BLFBH

Hidden in the puzzle above are 20 three letter codes. Start anywhere and read horizontal, vertical or diagonal, forwards or sdrawkcab. How many can you spot, and how many of them have you visited?  With the help of Cato and Rasmus, I can identify the 20, I have visited 7 to get on or off a train, and I have passed through the majority - just one I am in doubt about.
Logged
Coffee Shop Admin, Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, TravelWatch SouthWest Board Member
Red Squirrel
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 5501


There are some who call me... Tim


View Profile
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2024, 09:09:02 »
I have laid this out in a table to make the rows and columns clearer - hope this helps!

QUFTW
VQINT
NIKMA
DSTRS
BLFBH

Edit: I have bolded where a code has been identified...
« Last Edit: December 04, 2024, 13:46:44 by Red Squirrel » Logged
Things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.
grahame
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 43849



View Profile WWW Email
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2024, 09:25:18 »
Quote from: Red Squirrel on December 04, 2024, 09:09:02
I have laid this out in a table to make the rows and columns clearer - hope this helps!

QUFTW
VQINT
NIKMA
DSTRS
BLFBH

It doth, thank you!
« Last Edit: December 04, 2024, 10:06:05 by Red Squirrel » Logged
Coffee Shop Admin, Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, TravelWatch SouthWest Board Member
Red Squirrel
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 5501


There are some who call me... Tim


View Profile
« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2024, 10:00:39 »
Right then, I’ll set the ball rolling by mixing my metaphors and picking some low-hanging fruit:

ASH = Ash, Surrey. I haven’t visited!
Logged
Things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.
Richard Fairhurst
Global Moderator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 1283


View Profile Email
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2024, 10:09:34 »
FTW: Fort William. (Or "For The Win".) I have visited, but a long time ago.
Logged
Oxonhutch
Transport Scholar
Hero Member
******
Posts: 1373



View Profile
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2024, 11:05:53 »
STR: Stranraer - never visited.

There is most definitely no CHO where most of my rail journeys start and finish!
Logged
brooklea
Transport Scholar
Hero Member
******
Posts: 398


View Profile
« Reply #6 on: December 04, 2024, 11:20:06 »
BSK▸ (Basingstoke station, or Brake Standard Corridor (carriage), depending on context) is Basingstoke; I’ve made many journeys starting from there, and at other times changed trains.
Logged
stuving
Transport Scholar
Hero Member
******
Posts: 7425


View Profile
« Reply #7 on: December 04, 2024, 11:52:58 »
Ingatestone - INT, row 2. One I've been through quite often (but never, I think, got off at by mistake for Chelmsford).
Logged
Bob_Blakey
Transport Scholar
Hero Member
******
Posts: 880


View Profile
« Reply #8 on: December 04, 2024, 12:07:29 »
Duke Street (Glasgow) - DST

During my early working life I lived for several years close(ish) to Glasgow but never used this station.
Logged
TonyN
Transport Scholar
Hero Member
******
Posts: 517



View Profile
« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2024, 16:49:42 »
Lytham LTM

Of the ones identified so far I have been to Fort William, Stranraer and Basingstoke. Only been through the others.
Logged
Richard Fairhurst
Global Moderator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 1283


View Profile Email
« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2024, 17:23:28 »
Ah, I spotted another one.

WTF: Pilning.
Logged
Chris from Nailsea
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 19553



View Profile Email
« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2024, 17:53:28 »
Q Q K - King's Cross Train Station Airport, London.

I've never been there.  Grin
Logged
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.
grahame
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 43849



View Profile WWW Email
« Reply #12 on: December 05, 2024, 07:02:15 »
Here is the grid and solution:

QUFTW
VQINT
NIKMA
DSTRS
BLFBH

Contains:
FTW - Fort William
WTA - Wester Hailes
INT - Ingatestone
ISL - Isleworth
KNW - Kenilworth
KIN - Kingussie
MTL - Mortlake
MRB▸ (Meal Relief Break) - Manorbier
ANF - Ashurst New Forest
ASH - Ash
DST - Duke Street
SKN - St Keyne Wishing Well Halt
STR - Stranraer
TRS - Thurston
SAT - South Acton
SRT - Shortlands
BSK▸ (Basingstoke station, or Brake Standard Corridor (carriage), depending on context) - Basingstoke
BDN - Brading
LTM - Lytham
BRM - Barmouth

I will confess to have automated that rather work 'em all out for myself - code webbified at
https://www.greatwesternrailway.info/tlc.html
Logged
Coffee Shop Admin, Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, TravelWatch SouthWest Board Member
Do you have something you would like to add to this thread, or would you like to raise a new question at the Coffee Shop? Please [register] (it is free) if you have not done so before, or login (at the top of this page) if you already have an account - we would love to read what you have to say!

You can find out more about how this forum works [here] - that will link you to a copy of the forum agreement that you can read before you join, and tell you very much more about how we operate. We are an independent forum, provided and run by customers of Great Western Railway, for customers of Great Western Railway and we welcome railway professionals as members too, in either a personal or official capacity. Views expressed in posts are not necessarily the views of the operators of the forum.

As well as posting messages onto existing threads, and starting new subjects, members can communicate with each other through personal messages if they wish. And once members have made a certain number of posts, they will automatically be admitted to the "frequent posters club", where subjects not-for-public-domain are discussed; anything from the occasional rant to meetups we may be having ...

 
Pages: [1]
  Print  
« previous next »
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.2 | SMF © 2006-2007, Simple Machines LLC Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!
This forum is provided by customers of Great Western Railway (formerly First Great Western), and the views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that the content provided by one of our posters contravenes our posting rules via admin@railcustomer.info. Full legal statement (here).

Jump to top of page • Jump to Forum Home Page