Mornington Crescent - Return Ticket

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  • A maze of twisty little passages, all alike. So Amber
  • Walford East.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Walford
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    Nice try, but Dollis Hill

    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]
  • MarsupialMarsupial Shipmate
    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.
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    You're keeping a foot in the real world in MC?!?

    Given current state of play, the only real world station playable is once again Dollis Hill
  • Dollis Hill and double which will stop KarlLB from playing it again in this game (Gladstone addition to the rules, 1901).
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    *Cough* Circle line in Spoon? *Cough*

    Cashing in diagonals for Tottenham Court Road

    Jacks wild, obviously, and maximum two rounds bidding after the pawn has queened.
  • The 1911 ruling by Hoyle says that doubling on Dollis Hill can be done when Circle line is in Spoon. Plays a Jack, Zenda
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    Indeed it does, and the reasoning is no longer valid now the Circle is a Spiral

    Sto Lat

    Have to be holding three cabbages to change lines.
  • Bad Blintz
  • Hackenbeck Halt.
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    Signal fault?

    Line cleared now so Osgiliath. Change here for Minas Tirith and Edoras.
  • Taking a ship to Pelargir lines to Dol Amroth and Linhir available
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    edited March 31
    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"
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited March 31
    Ruislip Gardensl. As in: "Gaily into Ruislip Gardens/Ran the red electric train".

    Not steam, you see. (And no "engine", either).
  • MarsupialMarsupial Shipmate
    Doctor Foster went to Gloucester (Road).
  • Lankhmar and beware shadows.
  • NG2. (NET)
  • Oooh, is the power back on?

    Dollis Hill.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Hammersmith
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    Oh no, not a Dollis Hill loop.

    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.
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited April 19
    Hammers ... Ravenscourt Park. Whew - near miss! (Reverse at Moorgate),
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    Ahem - block =/= make inevitable...

    Dollis Hill
  • Nooooo ..... !!!!
  • MarsupialMarsupial Shipmate
    Hopefully Hainault is not a leap from the frying pan to the fire.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Uuumm ...

    Dollis Hill

    'Fraid so. :naughty:
  • jrwjrw Shipmate
    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).
  • Somewhat east of Bodmin Parkway is Templecombe which is worth visiting for the sundial statue. (I've nearly missed a train there admiring it.)
  • kingsfoldkingsfold Shipmate
    Mount Florida: alight here for the Victoria Hospital
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    edited April 21
    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.

    Let's remember that.

    Dollis Hill
  • Well, it's obvious then: Lord's (Metropolitan Line).
  • 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.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Gants Hill - untangle yourselves from that if you can! :innocent:
  • Fairlop Water because it's where I nearly took you from Hainault, but the next place was not so convenient.
  • jrwjrw Shipmate
    Ulaanbaatar.

    It's no good, is it? Dollis Hill awaits. We're destined never to escape it.
  • Melbourne (Flinders Street)
  • MarsupialMarsupial Shipmate
    Flinders Kleepers, so Tanjong Pagar.
  • Net SpinsterNet Spinster Shipmate
    Upper station Penang Hill Railway This should steepen the difficulty.
  • MarsupialMarsupial Shipmate
    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.
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited May 2
    You could try this one ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-7a0S5wsss

    But I think I'll go back to my childhood and go to Madonna del Sasso on the Locarno-Orselina funicular.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Oh well, if we're talking funiculars, then Fløibanen. :heart:
  • MarsupialMarsupial Shipmate
    Or if you have a dollar to spare, you could own Parry Sound.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    [tangent]
    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)!
    [/tangent]
  • Dent.
  • Net SpinsterNet Spinster Shipmate
    Torpoint end of the Torpoint Ferry.
  • MarsupialMarsupial Shipmate
    Piglet wrote: »
    [tangent]
    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...
    [/tangent]

    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.
  • Staines (West) - now offices - was a private house which the railway company bought and converted into a station.
  • 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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