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    Closed Stations Journey quiz

    New leaf ! Trefnant
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    Closed Stations Journey quiz

    Me and this area ! I really feel that I'd better take a little rest from this Journey :frown: .
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    Settlement Association

    Mea maxima culpa -- I meant NEWTON STEWART. Sure an' I was afther mixing it up with the place in County Tyrone named Newtownstewart, with a "w" and all one word...
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    People buying houses with associated noise (churches, railways etc) and then complaining about the noise?

    Hard to resist -- the tale from the days of persecution of religion in the USSR. There is in a country town there, a zealous church bellringer; who despite everything, doughtily rings the church bell prolongedly and often. In what seems altogether a suspiciously put-up job: he is apprehended and...
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    Closed Stations Journey quiz

    Middleton Junction
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    Closed Stations Journey quiz

    Ordsall Lane
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    Settlement Association

    Abernethy has a pub called the Crees Inn. Newtown Stewart, Dumfries and Galloway, has the very-similarly-named Cree Inn.
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    Closed Stations Journey quiz

    Trying again -- Seedley
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    Closed Stations Journey quiz

    I usually get in a mess in this damnable (apologies to all who live there) part of the world...
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    Closed Stations Journey quiz

    Barton Moss (2nd station)
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    Settlement Association

    Concerning loos -- "Gentlemen" and "Ladies" respectively, I believe. Long ago in North Wales, I kept seeing signpost-like devices which read (at least approx. -- spelling from memory) Llwybr Cyhoeddus. Found self wondering about this village to which -- rather after the fashion of Rome --...
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    Closed Stations Journey quiz

    Ellenbrook
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    @Peterthegreat says, King Boris; @DaleCooper, Franz Joseph. Neither, alas. (Taking it that Boris of Bulgaria is meant -- he was a great railway enthusiast, was he not? -- so he must have been a good guy :smile:.) I've perhaps been a bit unkind -- our anti-hero is not a very well-known...
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    This is the closest yet, re time in history. It was a monarch, but of a different Continental country.
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    Settlement Association

    One of my fairly frequent "saviors" in this game is the late humorist Paul Jennings; much of whose stuff I love. He got endless fun from playing around in various ways with British place-names -- in which games of his, Babbacombe (among many others) featured. I like his supposed "old and wise...
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    No -- he was funny over a fair number of issues; but doesn't seem to have had a "thing" about postmarks. Look yet earlier...
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    Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you

    This particular kind of frustration is a thing which dates way back. George Behrend writes in Railway Holiday In France, of travelling in 1963 on the splendidly scenic line through the Massif Central, between Nimes and Clermont-Ferrand. He was in a DMU set with grand viewing potential; but was...
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    Closed Stations Journey quiz

    Howe Bridge
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    Ah, that splendidly-named monarch. Not him, I fear -- I get the impression that he was overall sane, and a good chap; at least compared to some leaders which his country has had. As above -- our man is of earlier date, context the relatively brief historical window since postage stamps were...
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    None of those suggested to date, I'm afraid. Re the historically-existing ones thereof (with old Donald, who knows?): the "answer guy" considerably pre-dates them all.

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