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  1. johnnychips

    Cryptic clues = station name

    Unfortunately not. But you aren’t far away
  2. johnnychips

    Cryptic clues = station name

    No, but in the right county.
  3. johnnychips

    Cryptic clues = station name

    Clue: it’s in Yorkshire.
  4. johnnychips

    Cryptic clues = station name

    Thanks Dale Bed metal into wet soil at this station - but not for much longer!
  5. johnnychips

    Cryptic clues = station name

    Brierfield?
  6. johnnychips

    Cryptic clues = station name

    St Keyne Wishing Well Halt - some anagram of knee in it?
  7. johnnychips

    Sharp's Brewery

    I’m sure I have heard the verb ‘to Burtonise’, meaning to make water to the same chemical composition as that at Burton, so the beer produced tastes like it’s been brewed there.
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    Things in living memory which seem very anachronistic now

    Referencing the photography posts above, a sort of ‘negative anachronism’ occure. Recently, two old university friends and I had a reunion after forty-four years. Between us, we had six blurry photos of bands we watched, but absolutely none of each other in three years together. Compare that to...
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    Bee Network Service/Route Discussion

    Yes, the X57 observed the stops on the old 236 route. Hulleys also ran short journeys between Glossop Royal Oak and Manchester as the X56, but this was even more short-lived. To answer an earlier poster, some journeys did used to terminate at Hollingworth on the old 125 route, certainly in the...
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    Do you have any phobias?

    ‘An extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.’ I don’t know about a phobia, but I really don’t like snakes. If one comes on a nature documentary I have to force myself to watch. The college where I work has a small animal unit: when it opened I thought I would overcome it by...
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    Walking and Rambling discussion

    @THC what’s that blue stuff in your second photo? :lol:
  12. johnnychips

    AI-generated (not entirely realistic) railway images

    The reversal of the decision to scrap elections has led to ad hoc arrangements being put in place:
  13. johnnychips

    AI-generated (not entirely realistic) railway images

    This is what happens if you don’t read the timetable closely enough:
  14. johnnychips

    Usage of American English words on the British railway network

    ‘In a bar in Toledo, just outside the depot (dee-po), she quietly slipped off her ring…’ When I heard this in the late 70s, I assumed Kenny Rogers meant the bus station. Today’s Googling ascertains that Toledo is a city in Ohio, which does place it in the mid-west. However, there is only...
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    Station association

    Steam trains may also be seen at Keighley station, although not on the National Rail platforms.
  16. johnnychips

    Settlement Association

    Cam, in Gloucestershire, also has a St Bartholemew’s church.
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    The Transport Game (UK)

    We take Chaserider service 841 from the Guildhall Shopping Centre at 0733, arriving at Uttoxeter Bus Station at 0833 on Thursday morning.
  18. johnnychips

    *International* Guess The Station

    Qingdao?

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