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TheEdge

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Yes! Well that was rather more brief :)

For a bonus point then, there was a second private passageway leading from the platform - what was that one for? :D

I'm guessing it probably was something to do with getting the rich and well heeled to a Malvern spa.
 
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Yes! Well that was rather more brief :)

For a bonus point then, there was a second private passageway leading from the platform - what was that one for? :D

Secret platform leading to a train made up of loco hauled 442 stock to Newhaven Marine
 

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I'm guessing it probably was something to do with getting the rich and well heeled to a Malvern spa.

Sort of... It was for the delivery of salt, apparently, to a hotel next door - and yes it was for the spa!

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Secret platform leading to a train made up of loco hauled 442 stock to Newhaven Marine

:D

The other passageway leads to D Stock, being used by Northern on HS2
 

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One member of the great and good of British railway history has a peculiar personal history. Who?
 

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Could we have some sort of vague clue as to roughly where we're looking then? :)

So, are we talking a 'Big Four' era character?
 

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Beeching?

*Now follows a Who's Who of every bloke who ever set foot on a train!* :D
 
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A man who settled down in an exclusively rural part of Cheshire, much better than Alderley Edge or Wilmslow, and devoted much of his time to using his gargantuan knowledge of the UK Railway Network alongside 19th century politics in order to revolutionise rail history on a little-known transport forum at the comfort of his desk at his home in the Cheshire Golden Triangle? :D
 

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Not Colonel Stephens, I suppose? Reputedly a loner, one who didn't "do" family-type stuff -- lifelong bachelor and celibate, not much of a member even of an extended family: had seemingly pretty well no interests outside of his railways and his military doings. (I sometimes muse on how those literary amateurs who write what is called "slash fiction" -- hot erotic material about gay action between extremely incongruous and unlikely male characters -- might have a field-day with Stephens and his sidekick W.H. Austen.)
 

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Not Colonel Stephens, I suppose? Reputedly a loner, one who didn't "do" family-type stuff -- lifelong bachelor and celibate, not much of a member even of an extended family: had seemingly pretty well no interests outside of his railways and his military doings. (I sometimes muse on how those literary amateurs who write what is called "slash fiction" -- hot erotic material about gay action between extremely incongruous and unlikely male characters -- might have a field-day with Stephens and his sidekick W.H. Austen.)

Already writing it
 

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Eww eww eww eww. Please, I don't want to read fanfic about any of the above. Brunelchan yaoi. O_o

Meanwhile, no. I'm thinking of a CME.
 

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No sorry
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This looks to be dragging on a little now.

The person in question is a CME and their life and death is the oddity.
 

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Archibald Jack.
He was born in New Zealand, was a railway engineer, survived three torpedoes and the Sevenoaks rail crash of 1927. He was also the CME for the United Railways of Havana.
 

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Archibald Jack.
He was born in New Zealand, was a railway engineer, survived three torpedoes and the Sevenoaks rail crash of 1927. He was also the CME for the United Railways of Havana.

Exceedingly close but not the right British CME I am thinking of.
 

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