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« Reply #30 on: December 30, 2018, 22:55:46 »

It's Sunday, Tony! Westbury switchback (or 'circulation') is allowed as long as no other player has declared a void.

He has a point there, neither Stovold's nor Bradshaws guides for that matter have anything to dispute that. Only applies to Southern Region.
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« Reply #31 on: December 31, 2018, 09:38:54 »

It's Sunday, Tony! Westbury switchback (or 'circulation') is allowed as long as no other player has declared a void.

Oh boy, is my face red! But circulation comes under the Code Napoleon, doesn't it?
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« Reply #32 on: December 31, 2018, 10:40:06 »

It's Sunday, Tony! Westbury switchback (or 'circulation') is allowed as long as no other player has declared a void.

Oh boy, is my face red! But circulation comes under the Code Napoleon, doesn't it?

...which, as I think you know very well, applies in the cinque villes of west Wiltshire.
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« Reply #33 on: December 31, 2018, 11:42:15 »

How about Maiden Newton for a crafty token exchange?
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« Reply #34 on: December 31, 2018, 12:11:18 »

I've obviously got the wrong end of the stick: I thought we were playing the Great Western version of 'Mornington Crescent', or Melksham as it is more commonly called. I hadn't anticipated that Pratchett's Variant was in play! So:

Tooting Bec.
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« Reply #35 on: December 31, 2018, 13:30:09 »

Well, we can carry on playing the game but we've just heard that Samantha has had to nip out. She's off to Paddington to meet a gentleman friend who is coming up from the West Country. He's a bit of a nervous traveller so Samantha has prepared two itineraries for him: one from Temple Meads and one from Parkway. However she's told him he'll have to work out for himself which of her Bristols is better.
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« Reply #36 on: January 03, 2019, 21:01:15 »

As Samantha has nipped out, does that mean we are all in Nip until she returns with some refreshments? 
Apparently she's prepared lashings of ginger ale and lemononde and is eager to know which of her two big jugs the forum will be guzzling from.


Oh, nevermind, Sven's popped in fresh from the gramaphone department where he's been eagerly pulling the attendant's 12 inches out ready for Sound Charades.
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« Reply #37 on: January 03, 2019, 21:16:38 »

Can we increment from Twoting Bec to Three Bridges under the old Gatport variant?
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« Reply #38 on: January 03, 2019, 22:17:21 »

Can we increment from Twoting Bec to Three Bridges under the old Gatport variant?

Four Oaks ?
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« Reply #39 on: January 03, 2019, 22:23:41 »

Oooh! One of you could be as little as one out! Samantha may be able to help when she gets back from the hospital New Years Party, always a lively affair. She is helping a comedy anaesthetist choose volunteers from assembled students. She says they are always astonished when they see him knock one out on stage.
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« Reply #40 on: January 04, 2019, 01:27:10 »

Can we increment from Twoting Bec to Three Bridges under the old Gatport variant?

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Por olla Sevenoaks after the storm!
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« Reply #41 on: January 04, 2019, 10:49:37 »

Por olla Sevenoaks after the storm!

I am told it was not necessarily the storm that did for Threeoaks. Apparently, Sven was seen nearby, waving his mighty chopper on the station footbridge, with Samantha desperately trying to toss him off.
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« Reply #42 on: January 05, 2019, 13:29:53 »

A PM from Mrs Trellis of north Wales:
Dear Grantham, she writes, I'm woried about the poles holding up my washing line.  Come 29th march, will they have to go home?
Yours etc.


Incidentally, we've forgotten that as it's still Christmas until tomorrow, we should be playing Bethlehem rules, festive stations count double.

Kings Sutton.
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« Reply #43 on: January 05, 2019, 13:47:43 »

Incidentally, we've forgotten that as it's still Christmas until tomorrow, we should be playing Bethlehem rules, festive stations count double..

In that case: Eggesford!
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« Reply #44 on: January 05, 2019, 14:27:05 »

Berrylands.
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