Gloster
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Broadstairs was only ever served by the LC&DR, the others by both the LC&DR and SER?
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No. This would not have been possible as the present Ramsgate station dates from 1926. The answer I am looking for is not historical.
D6130
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Ramsgate is the only one with four platforms?
xotGD
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Dover is the only one where you aren't valid going the "wrong" way?
Previous question: Also Waverley on the Overnight.
Previous question: Also Waverley on the Overnight.
It is Dover Priory but that is not the reason.
D6130
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It's the only one situated between two tunnels?
Not the answer I'm looking for. It's to do with the train service.
Whistler40145
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Dover is served by the Ashford line, plus the line via Ramsgate and the direct line via Canterbury East
No but it is to do with where the trains go.
Whistler40145
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Dover Priory is served by three London stations?
steamybrian
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St Pancras, Victoria, Charing Cross also Cannon Street plus Waterloo East and London Bridge if counted as London termini
As no one appears to have got the answer I will kill this question.
The answer was that from Dover Priory it is only possible to get to St. Pancras in one direction without changing en route . It is possible to get through trains to St. Pancras in either direction from the other three.
As xotGD got Dover Priory I think he should set the next question.
The answer was that from Dover Priory it is only possible to get to St. Pancras in one direction without changing en route . It is possible to get through trains to St. Pancras in either direction from the other three.
As xotGD got Dover Priory I think he should set the next question.
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Nothing comes to mind, so Open Floor...
Possibly a crazy one; but: which line -- (in Great Britain; and long-abandoned) ) had a wonderful, barely-broken, sequence of assonant / quasi-rhyming intermediate stations, and terminus; which sequence was spoilt, in (I believe) the post-Grouping last couple of decades of the line's life, by the opening of several new halts which mostly, did not accord with the above-described "words fun"?
martinsh
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Total guess : is this the Wick to Lybster branch ?
An extremely good guess: that's the one. An eminent railway author -- maybe O.S. Nock -- mentions in a rare waggish moment in one of his books, the "ster" endings of nearly all the branch's original stations, including Lybster terminus: viz. Thrumster, Ulbster, Midclyth, Occumster, Lybster -- remarking to the effect that "it was a pity about Midclyth, spoiling what would otherwise have been a 'perfect set'." As mentioned in my question: a thing -- which there are "pointers" to likelihood of its having happened post-Grouping, under the LMS (line was abandoned in 1944) -- new halts named Welsh's Crosssing, Roster Road (at least this one was a "ster"), and Parkside: marring the business, yet further !
Next question is yours to set.
Next question is yours to set.
martinsh
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Open Floor
martinsh
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OK, I'll supply one after all then.
The only know surviving vehicle of which pre-grouping railway is currently to be found at Midland Railway (Butterley) ?
martinsh
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Lancashire Derbyshire & East Coast is the correct answer !
Your turn to dream up a grandiose scheme
Strewth ! An utter blind guess on my part -- informed just a little bit by the "broadly, that part of the country" factor. Thank you, anyway.
Grandiose scheme herewith; which island (not immensely far from here, in global terms) -- the scene at present, of some dissension and ill-feeling -- although this falls far short of lethal: was per plans and projects something over a century ago, to be served by a railway (metre-gauge), which however failed to come to be. Some early route-laying-out and making of earthworks took place; and there were indications of some folk in other countries, having the mistaken impression that the line had in fact been completed and was operating. Please identify the island. ("Virtual bonus points" for any further information on this matter.)
martinsh
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Crete ?
Neither; but you have the right sea.
Gloster
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Saaremaa?
Gloster
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So not Saaremaa.
'fraid not -- interesting thought, though.
I feel that this will probably be giving-it-away: but, the island is one of a Mediterranean island group which is the location at the present time; of a certain amount of bother re the inhabitants being pee'd-off with British visitors and their presence there.