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You have the right novel and person ... !
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EbbwJunction1
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Okay, I'll put you (and everyone else!) out of your misery ... the author was Patricia Highsmith, who also wrote "The Talented Mr Ripley" and four other novels in the same series.
You have four correct answers and LSWR Cavalier has one, so I declare that you have the Head Librarian's badge - well done!
You have four correct answers and LSWR Cavalier has one, so I declare that you have the Head Librarian's badge - well done!
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Something which I've tried before on "Railway General Knowledge"; but previous attempts were seemingly rated, in the main, unacceptably abstruse and "way-out". Attempting same again, but hopefully framed more accessibly ... around peak-time in these islands for mileage of railway operational for passenger services (early 20th century); there were a fair number of instances of two different stations in the British Isles with identical name; but serving places in different parts of the islands, and often on lines of different companies.
The question covers six of such, shown below. There are given, the name of the pre-Grouping railway company which served the station; the county in which located (past, and present, status thereof, are catered for); plus a clue of some sort, re each pair. Some of the stations concerned, still have a passenger service today; info re those in that category, shown in bold.
Re each of these same-name pairs; please furnish the name.
(1) Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway -- Norfolk
LB&SCR -- West Sussex
Name shared with the surname (Christian name Michael), of a not terrifically well-known, or successful, 16th / 17th century poet.
(2) GWR -- Cornwall
Great Eastern / Great Northern & Great Eastern Joint -- formerly Huntingdonshire, now Cambridgeshire
Name associated with a favourite silly rhyme / riddle: well-attested to be about only one of these two communities !
(3) Furness Railway -- Lancashire
North Staffordshire Railway -- Staffordshire
Name potentially evocative of romantic times-long-ago fantasy stuff a la Tolkien; including a precious metal, with such associations.
(4) Great Southern & Western Railway (Ireland) -- County Kildare
GWR -- Monmouthshire (Gwent)
The Irish location has an Irish-language name; but is more often referred to by the shorter English-language one which is sought. Re said name, reference can be envisaged to a novel gap-spanning undertaking.
(5) GWR -- Oxfordshire
GWR -- North Devon
One was on a lengthy terminal branch line of the GW; the other, on an -- also long -- secondary route, junctions both ends and en route, of the company. Both lines (a considerable distance apart, in England) now totally abandoned.
(6) Great Northern Railway -- formerly Huntingdonshire, now Cambridgeshire
North Eastern Railway -- East Riding of Yorkshire
Name brings to mind -- with the stations, one letter less -- a very famous fictional practitioner of rigorous logic and deduction.
The question covers six of such, shown below. There are given, the name of the pre-Grouping railway company which served the station; the county in which located (past, and present, status thereof, are catered for); plus a clue of some sort, re each pair. Some of the stations concerned, still have a passenger service today; info re those in that category, shown in bold.
Re each of these same-name pairs; please furnish the name.
(1) Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway -- Norfolk
LB&SCR -- West Sussex
Name shared with the surname (Christian name Michael), of a not terrifically well-known, or successful, 16th / 17th century poet.
(2) GWR -- Cornwall
Great Eastern / Great Northern & Great Eastern Joint -- formerly Huntingdonshire, now Cambridgeshire
Name associated with a favourite silly rhyme / riddle: well-attested to be about only one of these two communities !
(3) Furness Railway -- Lancashire
North Staffordshire Railway -- Staffordshire
Name potentially evocative of romantic times-long-ago fantasy stuff a la Tolkien; including a precious metal, with such associations.
(4) Great Southern & Western Railway (Ireland) -- County Kildare
GWR -- Monmouthshire (Gwent)
The Irish location has an Irish-language name; but is more often referred to by the shorter English-language one which is sought. Re said name, reference can be envisaged to a novel gap-spanning undertaking.
(5) GWR -- Oxfordshire
GWR -- North Devon
One was on a lengthy terminal branch line of the GW; the other, on an -- also long -- secondary route, junctions both ends and en route, of the company. Both lines (a considerable distance apart, in England) now totally abandoned.
(6) Great Northern Railway -- formerly Huntingdonshire, now Cambridgeshire
North Eastern Railway -- East Riding of Yorkshire
Name brings to mind -- with the stations, one letter less -- a very famous fictional practitioner of rigorous logic and deduction.
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2 St Ives ‘As I was going to St Ives...’
5 Bampton?
5 Bampton?
That's the one ! -- the celebrated polygamist reckoned to have been an East Anglian, not a Cornubian ...
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He probably had seven wives in each St Ives.
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6 Holmes?
3 Silverdale!?
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6 Holmes?
3 Silverdale!?
Correct.
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6 Holme?
That's right -- "Sherlock less one". On the East Coast Main a little south of Peterborough, junction long ago for the Ramsey (North) branch; and between Selby and Market Weighton.
Four down, two to go ...
Time for further clues, I think.
(1) In "cryptic clue" fashion: the name might be said to sound like a squirrel's nest followed by by a measure of weight, big-time.
(4) My face is very red here; I find that I've been misinforming about the Gwent station -- it should have been in bold -- the station is nowadays open: on a line which was closed in 1962 and reopened on 2008. Sorry ! The Co. Kildare station is on the Republic of Ireland's first-ranking main line.
(1) In "cryptic clue" fashion: the name might be said to sound like a squirrel's nest followed by by a measure of weight, big-time.
(4) My face is very red here; I find that I've been misinforming about the Gwent station -- it should have been in bold -- the station is nowadays open: on a line which was closed in 1962 and reopened on 2008. Sorry ! The Co. Kildare station is on the Republic of Ireland's first-ranking main line.
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4 Crumlin?
LSWR Cavalier
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1 Wholestone?
Not a name known to atlas-makers Ian Allan, Jowett, or Dewick ... the type of rodents referred to are arboreal, not cavity-dwelling.
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Neststone?
Maybe my squirrel-fandom is not widely shared -- folks, I suggest we forget beasties: think about horse-drawn wagons. And the weights thought of, above: the greater one of the two, is the right one.
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Carterton? Carton? Cartton?
Correct ! Second station out of Norwich (City) on the Midland & Great Northern Joint line from there to Melton Constable -- passenger service ended, with that on the entire branch, 1959; and on the LB&SC coast line, first station east of Chichester: passenger service withdrawn 1930.
(A squirrel's nest -- in a tree, of course -- is called a drey.)
And, "cryptic department" -- as in my first post of the thread -- the name concerned here, can be imagined as a reference to a novel gap-spanning undertaking.
This last one seems to be a real so-and-so. Another attempted clue: some 42 miles away from the Gwent station was another (long-closed) station, bearing the "answer name"; except that the two "answer stations" have just that name -- "one word, nothing else"; the newly-mentioned one has that name, plus a "hyphenated geographical suffix". (Am hoping that this clue might help, rather than confuse further 
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I sort of of cheated, your honour.
Is it Pontnewydd/Newbridge? I remember reading about Newbridge on Wye, which is hundreds of years old and has no train station.
Is it Pontnewydd/Newbridge? I remember reading about Newbridge on Wye, which is hundreds of years old and has no train station.
@LSWR Cavalier: I see no cheating here -- Newbridge is correct -- the Gwent one, on the recently reopened Newport -- Ebbw Vale line (I have the impression that Newbridge is very much the operative name, railway- and otherwise; the Welsh Pontnewydd, basically "for show"). Newbridge, Co. Kildare, is some 25 miles out of Dublin on the Dublin -- Cork line.
Newbridge-on-Wye had a station on the formerly Cambrian Railway Mid-Wales line, Moat Lane Jun. -- Talyllyn Jun. -- (Brecon), until abandonment of that line in 1962.
@LSWR Cavalier -- you got three correct answers, as against the other contestants' two, and one: the floor is yours.
Newbridge-on-Wye had a station on the formerly Cambrian Railway Mid-Wales line, Moat Lane Jun. -- Talyllyn Jun. -- (Brecon), until abandonment of that line in 1962.
@LSWR Cavalier -- you got three correct answers, as against the other contestants' two, and one: the floor is yours.
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Vielen Dank
More lovely long German railway words. I have inserted dashes to make them easier to guess, but each is normally a single word. What do they mean in English?
1 Puffer-kuesser
2 Ueberwurf-bauwerk
3 Trag-schnabel-wagen
4 Dach-profil-tunnel
5 Doppel-kreuz-weiche
6 Turm-bahnhof
More lovely long German railway words. I have inserted dashes to make them easier to guess, but each is normally a single word. What do they mean in English?
1 Puffer-kuesser
2 Ueberwurf-bauwerk
3 Trag-schnabel-wagen
4 Dach-profil-tunnel
5 Doppel-kreuz-weiche
6 Turm-bahnhof