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Hull to York?

Hull of boat,
Mark Selby,
Church Fenton,
York [Yorker]
Can't work out what the black dog represents though!

Edit - a very wild guess - "Ulleskelf" is Scandinavian in origin; "kelf" is Icelandic for "calf"
Is that supposed to be a calf?
 
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Welshman said:
Hull to York?

Hull of boat,
Mark Selby,
Church Fenton,
York [Yorker]
Can't work out what the black dog represents though!

Edit - a very wild guess - "Ulleskelf" is Scandinavian in origin; "kelf" is Icelandic for "calf"
Is that supposed to be a calf?
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I hope you’re right because that’s all pretty clever. ;)
 
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Welshman said:
Hull to York?

Hull of boat,
Mark Selby,
Church Fenton,
York [Yorker]
Can't work out what the black dog represents though!

Edit - a very wild guess - "Ulleskelf" is Scandinavian in origin; "kelf" is Icelandic for "calf"
Is that supposed to be a calf?
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You're right, it's Hull to York :)

The dog was part of the 'Fenton' clue, and was referencing this viral video from a few years back:

Anyway, it's your floor.
 
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In which poem, and by whom, can be found the following lines? (two per poem):-

1) "All windows down, all cushions hot, all sense of being in a hurry gone" & "A slow and stopping curve southwards we kept"

2) "The gradient's against her, but she's on time" & "But a jug in a bedroom gently shakes"

3) "There's a whisper down the line at 11.39" & "There's a funny little basin you're supposed to wash your face in"

4) "The steam hissed, someone cleared his throat" & "No one left and no one came on the bare platform"

Enjoy.
 
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Ok,
1) Not sure but familiar.
2) is the classic ‘Night Mail’ by WH Auden.
3) I think this is ‘Shimbleshanks the Railway Cat’ by T.S.Elliot.
4) Not sure.
 
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Cowley said:
Ok,
1) Not sure but familiar.
2) is the classic ‘Night Mail’ by WH Auden.
3) I think this is ‘Shimbleshanks the Railway Cat’ by T.S.Elliot.
4) Not sure.
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Correct with 2 & 3
As you have supplied two answers, please set the next question.

BTW (1) is "The Whitsun Weddings" by Philip Larkin.
 
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Welshman said:
Correct with 2 & 3
As you have supplied two answers, please set the next question.

BTW (1) is "The Whitsun Weddings" by Philip Larkin.
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As I’m painting a million windows today and won’t have time to check, I’ll have to say:
Open floor...
 
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I'll take your kindly-opened floor, if I may.

I recently had the good fortune to get a couple of days' use of a time machine. I set it to 90 years ago, and undertook the following rail journey.

Starting from Gruenberg, I travelled up the main line through Rothenburg, to the main-line junction -- whence routes in various directions -- of Reppen. Further per main line, same direction, to Jaedickendorf, where fancying something different, and a spell of branch-line travel; I switched to branch trains, and proceeded thereby, to Stargard. Doubled back there a little to Altdamm junction, on the eastern edge of a big town. Thence up lesser-main, and secondary, lines to Gollnow, Plathe, and ultimately Greifenberg; where I changed to a narrow-gauge train to travel to the small "bathing resort" of Horst, on the shore of a large natural body of water -- in which I went for a swim.

Where in Europe (as precisely as possible, please) did this journey take place?
 
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You're very much on the right track. Could you flesh that answer out a bit more? (N.B. -- journey took place in 1928.)
 
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You're quite right -- your "S-place" is the big town mentioned. If you'd just outline "how come" the various communities had German-type names ninety years ago, but now don't...
 
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Calthrop said:
You're quite right -- your "S-place" is the big town mentioned. If you'd just outline "how come" the various communities had German-type names ninety years ago, but now don't...
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Oh, yes, Germany still had remnants of the Kingdom of Prussia (even after the Treaty of Versailles), and so Stettin was part of Germany.
 
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Stettin, and much east and south-east thereof, remained as German territory -- with an overwhelmingly German population -- after World War I. Drastic re-adjustments in 1945 involved these areas becoming part of Poland (with expulsion of the German inhabitants). My described journey was through part of this territory: Zielona Gora (Gruenberg), to Niechorze (Horst) on the Baltic Sea (Altdamm Junction is now Szczecin Dabie).

Congrats: it's your turn to make dispositions as to the fate of nations...
 
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(Distances approximate): this rail system, with a maximum total length of 160 km., enacted its first closure of a section in 1935. Half a dozen years later, the plan was to abandon another large part of the system, reducing it to its most-used geographical "core" -- about two-sevenths of maximum extent -- which had opened significantly earlier than the system's more extensive remainder.

Factors connected with World War II reprieved most of the part "targeted" above, for another half-dozen years; after which this planned closure, was achieved. The "core" part continued in use for yet another half-dozen years, after which it too was abandoned. (The undertaking's road-using "descendant" expired -- to much local displeasure -- some sixty years later on.)

Please identify the railway concerned.
 
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Not that I'm predictable, or anything... :s

L & LSR it is ! martinsh, your floor.
 
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