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  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    It's very hot here today, and I could do with being considerably further north than I am:

    Helmsdale would be a good start.
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    A little nearer to home, you could try Churchill - if the trains have started running again.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Liverpool Street
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    Liverpool (Lime Street)
  • Net SpinsterNet Spinster Shipmate
    Monument (for St. Clements)
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Bank

    Mind the gap.
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    "Via escalator connection", of course.

    Monument (Tyne & Wear Metro).
  • Jengie JonJengie Jon Shipmate
    Given that move how could I resist the Northern Saints so Bede
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    Beal (for the Lindisfarne causeway).
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    Another kind of cause way would be Cable Street, for which the nearest station is Shadwell.
  • Curiosity killedCuriosity killed Shipmate
    Monkwearmouth Station - for one of the monasteries linked to Bede.
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    Blackfriars.
  • Robert ArminRobert Armin Shipmate
    Since the Queen has a birthday this year, I can straddle and go to South Kensington.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    [tangent]
    Hello RA - long time no see - welcome back! :)
    [/tangent]

    Meanwhile, back at the game, seeing we're getting towards the posher end of the Monopoly board:

    Knightsbridge

  • Robert ArminRobert Armin Shipmate
    It's good to be back Piglet.

    With no R in the month I'm unblocked, so Earls Court.
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    Ravenscourt Park (and just look at the train: https://tinyurl.com/yyd5lgna !)
  • balaambalaam Shipmate
    Talking of ravens, Ravensthorpe.
  • Curiosity killedCuriosity killed Shipmate
    edited July 2019
    Well, if we're there, let's visit Felix at Huddersfield
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited July 2019
    The great Roy Hudd lives in Suffolk. There's no station in his village, so Needham Market will have to do.
  • Net SpinsterNet Spinster Shipmate
    edited July 2019
    Shall we move on to Diss not to be confused with the city of Dis
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    A poetic diversion (by John Betjeman): https://tinyurl.com/y5qmushp
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Thanks for that, BT - I love his poetry.

    Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough!
  • Curiosity killedCuriosity killed Shipmate
    Well, I did think of taking you to Witham from Diss, but wasn't sure it was a good place to go over the weekend with various news feeds full of accounts of a stabbing.
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    I should say it would be good to go and help clear up after the celebrations around St John's Wood last night, provided engineering works permit.
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited July 2019
    Or, if you are feeling less helpful, simply St. John's - you can make the choice between south-east London, the Isle of Man or Newfoundland, though only one has trains these days.
  • Curiosity killedCuriosity killed Shipmate
    St John's is the closest station to ken's church, where his funeral was held. And remembering ken, whose blog was called The view from Nunhead Station, let's head to Nunhead station
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    And logically on to Seven Sisters (see what I did there?)
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited July 2019
    ????? (bemused).

    However: Six Bells Halt (Abertillery).
  • Net SpinsterNet Spinster Shipmate
    Five Ways (Birmingham)

    BT liked the poem also
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited July 2019
    Staying in the West Midlands: Four Oaks..

    I'm glad people liked the poem. The "Mary Wilson" to which it was written was Betjeman's friend, the wife of the Prime Minister Harold Wilson. However, Diss is nowhere near "the grey North Sea" - he should have chosen the East Suffolk Line for that!
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    Counting down to my old haunt: Three Bridges.
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited July 2019
    Well, that's got us into a pickle, hasn't it - I don't think there are any "Two ..." stations! However we are saved as, on Portugal's Western Line, there is a little station called "Dois Portos" (or "Two Ports").
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Baptist Trainfan wrote: »
    ????? (bemused).
    Nunhead ... sisters ...?

    I can't think of a station with "one" in it, unless Stonehaven counts, which I've decided it does. :mrgreen:

  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    Pushing things a bit, though ...? However, that does allow us to proceed to Chalfont & Latimer (change for Chesham).
  • Net SpinsterNet Spinster Shipmate
    and on to Jewellery Quarter Birmingham (using my last silver moon piece)
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    Brilliant! Moving towards 'Sarfend' we get Chafford Hundred Lakeside.
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    Sounds like a character from a P.G. Wodehouse book.
    Best head on to Dagenham Heathway, I suppose.
  • Jengie JonJengie Jon Shipmate
    And another character would be Gerrard Cross
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    And what might we do with Martins Heron? (No apostrophe, sadly).
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Will King's Cross satisfy your (perfectly understandable) desire for an apostrophe?
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    Yes. However we might argue over the correct spelling of this station: https://tinyurl.com/y5dl8txd. I mean, if the Tube people can't make up their mind ...
  • Net SpinsterNet Spinster Shipmate
    Metamorfosi
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    That makes me want to cry, "All change!" - which clearly means Colindale.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Bother. I thought "all change" meant we were at Crewe.

    But I'm well known for having a sense of direction that would make Captain Slow from Top Gear look like an actual sat-nav.
  • Net SpinsterNet Spinster Shipmate
    Since we seem to be going into the West, Arisaig
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    One should be wary of heading anywhere further west than Vauxhall.
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    Or further east than Shoreditch.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    edited July 2019
    As there seem to be no limits on northerliness:

    Wick :mrgreen:
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    Bluff (NZ).
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Circus Host, 8th Day Host
    I’m not sure how I feel about all these new-fangled innovations. Time for a more traditional move, methinks.

    Liverpool Street
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