Here it is
The answers to the quiz published on Sunday 1st January.
1
Bugle
on the line between Par and Newquay
BUGLE
on the line between Par and Newquay
2
Andrew Marr : Gate
MARGATE
3
Gold Fish : Guard
FISHGUARD
4
Pens : Ants
PENZANCE
5
Sugar : Loaf
situated on the Central Wales line
SUGAR LOAF
Sugar Loaf is a mountain in Wales.
The station was, arguably, the most basic station in the UK.
In recent years it has been dramatically improved with a better platform and a departure screen.
Access is a tad on the basic side.
6
Wall
on the local service south of Bristol, near Weston super Mud
WORLE
7
Snoopy is Reading a book
READING
READING
8
The Beipanjiang Bridge in China; which hangs over 1,800 feet above a river.
It is the world's highest bridge.
HIGHBRIDGE (and Burnham)
It is the world's highest bridge.
HIGHBRIDGE (and Burnham)
9
Nitrogen and oxygen are the main constituents of the air we breathe.
AYR
X - Roman "numeral" for ten : Bee
TENBY
TENBY
11
The end result of a chicken's hatching
on the London Overgrround line between Euston and Watford Junction
HATCH END
on the London Overgrround line between Euston and Watford Junction
12
A horse at the canter : bury the dead
CANTERBURY
13
A witch's coven : a tree
COVENTRY
14
Mike and (here) Bernie Winters : a pair of arms
located on one of the routes between Norwich and Great Yarmouth
BERNEY ARMS
16
COVENTRY
14
A pair of "kneelers"; known in ecclesiastical use as hassocks
HASSOCKS
The station, on the main line to Brighton, used to be an awful 1960s "unit" building ...
... replaced in 2013 by something a whole lot better.
15
Sadly, it is an urban myth that the only thing at the station is the Berney Arms pub. There is NOTHING at the station, seen here on Google Earth.
Across three fields and on the banks of the River Yare is the pub, now closed and, sadly, vandalised.
A little further along the track is the Windmill.
The crowd on the station platform above had just been on a "pub crawl" to enjoy the hostelry's beer. Crowds of this size are rare!
The actor Don Warrington (Rising Damp and Death in Paradise)
a sugar Caster
DONCASTER
The visit to Doncaster heralded on yesterday's blog has been held over.
17
A Man : An Orb and some Beer
station located in West Wales on the branch to Pembroke Dock
MANORBIER
18
A car : a lions' den (twice)
located on today's "Fife Circle" line.
CARDENDEN
fbb remembers that the line through Glenrothes with Thornton was exceptional on the railway maps of the sixties (?) as it showed a one way arrow towards Cardenden. A train running on one direction only. Here, however, is a better explanation.
19
Eggs : a river Mouth
EXMOUTH
20
The late Alan Rickman, Alan Shearer i.e. two Alans : West
situated on the line from Middlesbrough to Darlington.
ALLENS WEST
Another little used station with very basic facilities ...
... with another luxury entrance!
fbb guesses that, if you know your UK railway network, it will have been a bit of fun.
But well done if you caught them all!
Next bus blog : Monday 9th January
I managed to score 11, but feel that Worle was a bit 'off the wall'. Good fun, though.
ReplyDeleteThere actually was a station called "Wall" on the old Border Counties Line from Hexham to Riccarton Junction. It was where the railway passed through Hadrian's Wall. The line closed about 60 years ago though (pre-Beeching).
DeleteGood fun indeed, but I must protest that the Kentish city has two stations and that the lack of a clue including the suffix was not up to standard. (Historical note: the verb 'to canter' derives from [OED]'Canterbury pace', the supposed easy pace of medieval pilgrims to Canterbury).
ReplyDeleteProtest duly noted "Man". The philosophical problem with suffixes is that there is no Allen's East!
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