Tower Bridge raised, btw. I'm sure we all know what that means, but in case the disgraceful scenes at Leamington Spa in 1992 weren't sufficient warning, may I remind you Just Don't?
That 1992 Leamington Spa final also led to the unambiguous restatement of Reverse Nidd. So no excuses.
[Ah sod it, I'm out of ideas. Stick your own smutty comment about Samantha here]
Keeping one foot in reality, Lower Bay briefly functioned as an actual Toronto subway station but now spends most of its time pretending to be other parts of the world.
You have to be careful. There have been sabotage attempts by the militant wing of the Pre-Mediaeval Code Enforcement Society. They don't approve of the Gondor and Morgul Vale railway at all, as you may imagine. They are somewhat placated by the folk songs:
"Early in the fourth age they tried to run a train
From Edoras to Morgul at the foot of the mountain range
...
They employed four thousand orcs and trolls
To build this mighty road
And over the Anduin to Morannon
The new fangled steam engines rode"
I'm using my bonus action to snaffle a Blue Chip from Hammersmith to get me towards the required laterals to escape before making my move, which of course has to be:
Dollis Hill
If anyone can block a reverse shunt now would obviously be a good time.
We appear to have returned to the real world again.
Irony Card allows me to go from Dollis Hill to Bristol or further west, so I'm going to go to Bodmin Parkway (bl-fr=wst/not valid eb)
(To my knowledge, only one player has ever managed that move without a card, and that was Peter Geralds (1928 - 1992) at the MC World Championships in 1971).
Peter Geralds' move was what started the whole momentum towards the Leamington Spa debacle a few years later. I'm sure none of us want to revisit that disgraceful period in the game's history.
It was decided (if I recall correctly) by the International Committee that playing a reverse shunt on a lateral was only legal without a card if:
1. Through platforms were free at intervening stations;
2. Signals weren't controlled by an opposing player via reverse swing;
3. The batsman hadn't played a shot and the ball pitched inside the line of the leg stump.
Gerald's move of course went straight through an occupied Oxford Circus and was also a full toss.
Tower Hill, pick up a raven, and put down a diamond. Peter Gerard never lived down that play; I believe he ended up in Tristan da Cunha and as far from stations as anyone can be.
One of my more surreal travel experiences was getting off the Hong Kong Peak Tram in a highly jet-lagged state at May Road. The track is not literally vertical; it just feels that way.
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It almost seems a shame that it can't be converted into a house; I bet there are lots of people who'd love the idea of living in a converted railway station (I think my late husband would have been one of them)!
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It almost seems a shame that it can't be converted into a house; I bet there are lots of people who'd love the idea of living in a converted railway station...
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I think it may be a sign that I'm spending too much time on this thread that my first thought on seeing this was Blake Hall (a bit of Googling yields this, which looks much nicer than the Wikipedia version).
All the stations on that section of the line look like that and most are private houses now: Ongar, North Weald, Epping, Theydon Bois, albeit at Epping and Theydon Bois, adjoining working stations, North Weald and Ongar heritage rail stations. Blake Hall now has a small housing estate next door and old steam and diesel trains running past most weekends and holidays.
If I remember correctly the man who owns Blake Hall also owns a lot of the Epping Ongar Railway, the heritage rail, and started by collecting the vintage buses.
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Tower Bridge raised, btw. I'm sure we all know what that means, but in case the disgraceful scenes at Leamington Spa in 1992 weren't sufficient warning, may I remind you Just Don't?
That 1992 Leamington Spa final also led to the unambiguous restatement of Reverse Nidd. So no excuses.
[Ah sod it, I'm out of ideas. Stick your own smutty comment about Samantha here]
Given current state of play, the only real world station playable is once again Dollis Hill
Cashing in diagonals for Tottenham Court Road
Jacks wild, obviously, and maximum two rounds bidding after the pawn has queened.
Sto Lat
Have to be holding three cabbages to change lines.
Line cleared now so Osgiliath. Change here for Minas Tirith and Edoras.
"Early in the fourth age they tried to run a train
From Edoras to Morgul at the foot of the mountain range
...
They employed four thousand orcs and trolls
To build this mighty road
And over the Anduin to Morannon
The new fangled steam engines rode"
Not steam, you see. (And no "engine", either).
Dollis Hill.
I'm using my bonus action to snaffle a Blue Chip from Hammersmith to get me towards the required laterals to escape before making my move, which of course has to be:
Dollis Hill
If anyone can block a reverse shunt now would obviously be a good time.
Dollis Hill
Dollis Hill
'Fraid so.
Irony Card allows me to go from Dollis Hill to Bristol or further west, so I'm going to go to Bodmin Parkway (bl-fr=wst/not valid eb)
(To my knowledge, only one player has ever managed that move without a card, and that was Peter Geralds (1928 - 1992) at the MC World Championships in 1971).
It was decided (if I recall correctly) by the International Committee that playing a reverse shunt on a lateral was only legal without a card if:
1. Through platforms were free at intervening stations;
2. Signals weren't controlled by an opposing player via reverse swing;
3. The batsman hadn't played a shot and the ball pitched inside the line of the leg stump.
Gerald's move of course went straight through an occupied Oxford Circus and was also a full toss.
Let's remember that.
Dollis Hill
It's no good, is it? Dollis Hill awaits. We're destined never to escape it.
But I think I'll go back to my childhood and go to Madonna del Sasso on the Locarno-Orselina funicular.
It almost seems a shame that it can't be converted into a house; I bet there are lots of people who'd love the idea of living in a converted railway station (I think my late husband would have been one of them)!
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I think it may be a sign that I'm spending too much time on this thread that my first thought on seeing this was Blake Hall (a bit of Googling yields this, which looks much nicer than the Wikipedia version).