Originally posted by teamsaint
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My results were waiting....
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Late to this thread, but that takes me back - to 1970, after my finals but before the results. I took myself up to Scotland on the train - the overnighter from Kings Cross on the West Highland Line. I got off the train at Bridge of Orchy and walked through Glencoe (the footpath above the road) to the youth hostel....then on to Fort William and the train to Mallaig, getting off at Arisaig to walk up the lovely coastline to Mallaig. The Glenfinnan Viaduct is one of the wonders of the world (a few years earlier I'd attended the Glenfinnan Highland Games, presided over by Cameron of Lochiel). I crossed to Skye on the Armadale ferry, then bus up to Broadford where I explored for a day walking across to Lochs Slapin and Eishort. This was the year after Gavin Maxwell had died, and I wanted to see Sandaig, the real-life Camusféarna, so I set off the following day along the road from Broadford to the Kylerhea Ferry. A car stopped for me - it was none other than Maxwell's friend and vet who used to attend the otters. He dropped me off in Glenelg, where I stayed with a lovely forester and deerstalker and his wife, who sang the Mingulay Boat Song while she was cooking....and walked down to Sandaig on an idyllically perfect day. Eventually I made my way to Kyle of Lochalsh and so back to London on the train.....
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Yes - ahinton in #31Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
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Ah yes. I missed that.Comment
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EA was probably thinking about a different version...Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostYes - ahinton in #31Comment
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Oh - surely not the dreaded Tufnell Park Rules?!Originally posted by ahinton View Post
(That, combined with the Dollis Hill manoeuvre, was what made me give up professional Crescenting.
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You can still do it if you don't cross the diagonal.Comment
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... funny you shd mention that. Number one son and partner are contemplating a move from Tufnell Park to Mile End - and I can now amaze them with TeamSaint's (many thanks for both quiz and solution!) wonderfully useful fact concerning the connectivity of Mile End...Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostOh - surely not the dreaded Tufnell Park Rules?!
My move : Turnham Green
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Latimer Road.Originally posted by vinteuil View Post[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Drop some flowers outside Grenfell while there.Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostComment
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I assume that we have "all" now checked that the solution is correct, and that the suggestion is also the "only" one. I haven't - yet!Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
I did wonder what kind of Train Chat this thread might be about. Perhaps conversations heard while on trains, or maybe even those messages we see in the Metro "The guy with the brown raincoat and the beard on the 10.42 from Paddington ....."
"The girl who smiled at me in the third carriage on the Circle Line at about 8.33pm going towards Victoria ...."
"Fancy a drink - the guy with the smart suit who nearly spilled coffee over me at Charing Cross ...."
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That was one of my local stations for a short while. Tended to prompt questions such as "How do you get to Turnham Green?"Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
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... I know the way to Turnham Green - and it's a bit more imaginative than that. And much more painful...Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
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Indeed - but for that, one has to know the correct way to Oldham.Originally posted by vinteuil View Post[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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And iirc not all trains going through stopped there; you had to be careful which train/line you were on at different times of day. Perhaps you still do!Originally posted by vinteuil View PostComment
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