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Ashley Hill

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Got one.
Fill in the blanks:-
Signalman’s …………….. (7)
Signalman’s …………….. (8)
Signalman’s …………….. (9)
 

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Adrian Vaughan.

7) Nightmare
8) Sunset
9) Tales?
 

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7 is, I think, Morning. 9 came to me last night as probably being Nightmare (before Cowley’s post), but I still can’t remember 8.
 

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7 is, I think, Morning. 9 came to me last night as probably being Nightmare (before Cowley’s post), but I still can’t remember 8.

I have read some of these but it was a long time ago and I think I must have borrowed them from the library.

How many did he write?
 

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I’ll call it a day on this one. The answers were in order. Signalman’s Morning, Twilight and Nightmare, the trilogy written by Adrian Vaughn about his railway career. @Cowley and @Gloster you both had one each, perhaps one of you would like to “ask on” with another question?
 

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I’ll call it a day on this one. The answers were in order. Signalman’s Morning, Twilight and Nightmare, the trilogy written by Adrian Vaughn about his railway career. @Cowley and @Gloster you both had one each, perhaps one of you would like to “ask on” with another question?

I’m a little busy this morning so I’ll give @Gloster the road.
 

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Birmingham Snow Hill?

Indeed it was: opened in the former 3rd Class Ladies Waiting Room in September 1960, two months before Plymouth. It was also the first to close, in September 1972.

To you to set up the road for the next question.
 

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Cheers

An easy one methinks.

Dover used to have no fewer than eight signal boxes controlling the area. Line closures and rationalisation saw this reduced to three by 1995 these last three closing in 1998. Where is signalling in the area now controlled from?
 

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The Severn Tunnel was the longest tunnel on the old GWR, but what was the longest tunnel on the GWR that was entirely in Wales?
 

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