The next station is...!

[Whistler40145]

I'll be back shortly

 

[backontrack]

After Kingham we pass the site of the station, closed in 1966, of Adlestrop.

Adlestrop by Edward Thomas

Yes, I remember Adlestrop --
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.

The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
No one left and no one came
On the bare platform. What I saw
Was Adlestrop -- only the name

And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,
No whit less still and lonely fair
Than the high cloudlets in the sky.

And for that minute a blackbird sang
Close by, and round him, mistier,
Farther and farther, all the birds
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.

 

[Whistler40145]

Moreton-in-Marsh

Uniquely this station has bilingual station signs, English and Japanese

 

[backontrack]

Wow, I was literally just looking at the Bilingual Signs thread, although Moreton wasn't mentioned... hock:

Honeybourne

 

[Whistler40145]

I'm quite impressed with you're poetry!

Evesham

 

[backontrack]

Well, I cut/pasted it, although I pretty much know that one...

Here's one I don't know:

Pershore Station, or A Liverish Journey First Class by John Betjeman

The train at Pershore station was waiting that Sunday night
Gas light on the platform, in my carriage electric light,
Gas light on frosty evergreens, electric on Empire wood,
The Victorian world and the present in a moment's neighbourhood.
There was no one about but a conscript who was saying good-bye to his love
On the windy weedy platform with the sprinkled stars above
When sudden the waiting stillness shook with the ancient spells
Of an older world than all our worlds in the sound of the Pershore bells.
They were ringing them down for Evensong in the lighted abbey near,
Sounds which had poured through apple boughs for seven centuries here.

With Guilt, Remorse, Eternity the void within me fills
And I thought of her left behind me in the Herefordshire hills.
I remembered her defencelessness as I made my heart a stone
Till she wove her self-protection round and left me on my own.
And plunged in a deep self pity I dreamed of another wife
And lusted for freckled faces and lived a separate life.
One word would have made her love me, one word would have made her turn
But the word I never murmured and now I am left to burn.
Evesham, Oxford and London. The carriage is new and smart.
I am cushioned and soft and heated with a deadweight in my heart.

 

[Whistler40145]

Worcester Shrub Hill

Now which way?

 

[backontrack]

Droitwich Spa

Which way would you like to go? There's Hartlebury, Bromsgrove or still Worcester Foregate Street.*

*We have been on the Bromsgrove Line a lot; your choice, however.

 

[Whistler40145]

Worcester Foregate Street

 

[backontrack]

Good choice.

Malvern Link

 

[Whistler40145]

Great Malvern

 

[backontrack]

Apologies - slow internet connection

Colwall (elements of Adlestrop were inspired from a stop Edward Thomas made here, along with at both Adlestrop and Chipping Camden)

 

[Whistler40145]

Ledbury

Oh the joys of modern technology, sometimes not very reliable

 

[backontrack]

Hereford

 

[Whistler40145]

Abergavenny
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---
I'm feeling peckish, so going to raid the kitchen....back soon

 

[backontrack]

Don't forget the food thread!

Pontypool & New Inn

 

[Whistler40145]

Cwmbran

 

[ooo]

Newport

 

[Whistler40145]

Cardiff Central

 

[backontrack]

Grangetown

 

[Whistler40145]

Hold on please, Cardiff Bay is after Cardiff Queen Street, not Cardiff Central

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Grangetown

Your posting shows that it was edited....was there a different station name previously?
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---

8. IN THE EVENT OF A WRONG ANSWER:

If a submission to the quiz is incorrect, but there have been no further posts, the author may edit their post, so long as the original is shown as crossed out. After striking through an incorrect entry, you must use reply rather than edit to post your new entry. This aims to prevent confusion to allow for smooth proceedings.

If there have been further posts, either of two circumstances should occur;
i) The author states their position, thus making any posts after the original superfluous. The original incorrect answer should be crossed out. The game is then continued by a different individual, starting from the station before the incorrect submission.
ii) Another individual states their suspicion, which is then confirmed by another player. Anyone is then welcome to continue the game, again starting from the station before the incorrect submission. Again, the incorrect answer should be crossed out.

If you are unable to cross the answer out, due to reasons beyond your control, you should only edit to a statement giving an acceptable reason. You should not make another posting until another person has posted.

If the post is edited, then it will be assumed that the entry has been changed, unless a clear reason is posted in the reason box.

9. Any entry that has been edited or deleted without good reason will lose 10 points from that leg.

I show rules 8 and 9 above from the official quiz rules.

 

[Whistler40145]

Sorry Paul, I'm off to bed now

 

[Quakkerillo]

Cogan

with Tim his reply, I think Cardiff Bay was accidentally posted, which is an invalid move. And that was changed to Grangetown

 

[Buttsy]

Cogan

with Tim his reply, I think Cardiff Bay was accidentally posted, which is an invalid move. And that was changed to Grangetown

Fair point, but the station should have been struck through rather than edited.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fair point, but the station should have been struck through rather than edited.

Exactly, that is why my last posting was a pains to point out, with two of the specific rules of the quiz covering the said matter being shown.

 

[backontrack]

Apologies.

Eastbrook

 

[Whistler40145]

Dinas Powys

 

[backontrack]

Cadoxton

This is not going well...

 

[Whistler40145]

Barry Docks