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DaleCooper

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In what sense is Godalming the only station on American bank notes?

I might have expected that with the fleet in port the standard of questions would plummet.

When's your next "holiday"? I hope it will be much longer than the last, permanent would suit me fine. Meanwhile I'll just put you back on my ignore list, it's better for my blood pressure that way.
 
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DaleCooper said:
In what sense is Godalming the only station on American bank notes?

I might have expected that with the fleet in port the standard of questions would plummet.

When's your next "holiday"? I hope it will be much longer than the last, permanent would suit me fine. Meanwhile I'll just put you back on my ignore list, it's better for my blood pressure that way.
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There is no reason to be rude, DaleCooper
 
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Not that I want to take the floor away from Beermaddavep, but the clue was a bit misleading as GOD is not the only station code to appear on US bank notes, and the word Lincoln does appear twice on the $5 bill.
 
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DaleCooper said:
Blimey Jona26 I thought that would run for a bit longer than that. You must be a Neasden supporter, which one are you Sid Bonkers or Doris Bonkers?

Well done, your turn...
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Haha thanks. Family is from that part of the world.

Ok, this station is very nearly a bargain priced conveyance.
 
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Selhurst?? (sell -- off, cheaply; “hearse”, conveyance for dead people; plus t, just because...)


Re recent “doings” about my clue which seemed not to go well: I just got the feeling that in some way, I’d done the equivalent of weeing on the carpet at a Buckingham Palace tea party to which I’d been invited by the Queen. Wondered whether Northern Ireland (location of answer to clue) was, after all, taboo: but we’ve since had Marino, so no problem there. Sorry – I was clearly overly thin-skinned -- went off and sulked for a bit.

My clue, “Heard locally, screwing-up of an A.M. – mucky business !” – the answer was, Magheramorne. Said with the local accent, sounds a lot like “mar a morn” = screw up or spoil, an A.M. or morning. The “mucky” bit: this location was one end of the run of the trains of hopper wagons, with 2-6-4T s “fore and aft”, which ran in a “shuttle” operation, approx. 1968 – 1970, to take earth and rock extracted at Magheramorne, to a site a little way north of Belfast city, for reclamation of an area of the lough shore for building of the M5 (I think) motorway. These workings were referred to locally, and by enthusiasts, as the “muck trains”.
 
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Calthrop said:
Selhurst?? (sell -- off, cheaply; “hearse”, conveyance for dead people; plus t, just because...)


Re recent “doings” about my clue which seemed not to go well: I just got the feeling that in some way, I’d done the equivalent of weeing on the carpet at a Buckingham Palace tea party to which I’d been invited by the Queen. Wondered whether Northern Ireland (location of answer to clue) was, after all, taboo: but we’ve since had Marino, so no problem there. Sorry – I was clearly overly thin-skinned -- went off and sulked for a bit.

My clue, “Heard locally, screwing-up of an A.M. – mucky business !” – the answer was, Magheramorne. Said with the local accent, sounds a lot like “mar a morn” = screw up or spoil, an A.M. or morning. The “mucky” bit: this location was one end of the run of the trains of hopper wagons, with 2-6-4T s “fore and aft”, which ran in a “shuttle” operation, approx. 1968 – 1970, to take earth and rock extracted at Magheramorne, to a site a little way north of Belfast city, for reclamation of an area of the lough shore for building of the M5 (I think) motorway. These workings were referred to locally, and by enthusiasts, as the “muck trains”.
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Thanks for clearing up the mystery, it was established a while back that NI stations being part of the UK are perfectly acceptable so you didn't wee on anyone's carpet, welcome back.
 
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