Combo quiz - one of each type - 22nd Dec 2020

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Pot Pourri - Please try just one question each for the first 24 hours (Stuving put it so much better yesterday than I do on telling you that you can have another go if you get your first one wrong) Can you identify ...

1. A recent ariel view - Southminster - eightonedee


2. An old map - Morar - eightonedee


3. A picture - Melksham - brooklea


4. A timetable


5. An Anagram - where am I if I'm at the "megaphone profuse scoffers"
Coffee shop passenger forum - Stuving

6. A modern Map
"Kolari" or "Yllasjokisuu" - eightonedee


7. A metro Schematic - Zurich - Stuving


8. An ABC description - Penychain - Oxonhutch


9. A hotel advert from 1911 - Taunton - Stuving


10. I am at Dog inland not pond [London Paddington].
How many of these stations can I get a direct train to? Answered by Oxonhutch
** Hut my Woe - Weymouth
** Gears Wink - Kingswear
** Chalk foot mud - Falmouth Dock
King unseal - Gunnislake
* Bridal Yarns - Barry Island
*** Reset Superwoman - Weston-super-mare
** Afraid rough shrub - Fishguard Harbour
Cheap placable rulebooks - Blackpool Pleasure Beach
** House and stone - Southend on Sea
Pointy gremlin - Lymington Pier
Hippies Hall - Shippea Hill
Borrowed snug tit - Stourbridge Town

*** - through services today
** - through services in the past
* - MIGHT have been a through carriage??

11. A description of somewhere with a railway connection - but of where?
Ffarquhar  - Hal. (Isle of Sodor / Thomas the Tank Engine)

The oldest part of the village stands astride the xxxxxx road. In the troubled times of xxxxxx  a fort stood here as an outpost for xxxxxx Castle. Following the acceptance of Henry IV as Overlord in 1404, the fort fell into disuse, and little remains except the hillock on which it once stood. It is still called "The Fort". Some of the older houses in the village are built from its masonry.  St Finan's church, which mainly dates from the thirteenth century, has a circular tower of a much earlier date and was massively built. It cannot be entered except by a ladder from inside the church, and seems to have been intended as a peel or tower of refuge.

12. Where is this? Portsmouth and Southsea - TonyN


13. A Station aree plan - Falls of Cruachan - Stuving


14. A railway line - Firsby - TonyN


15. The sky at night - or something else?? - something else - Oxonhutch
(others welcome to add a more specific answer) 
Lincolnshire - stuving

[TonyN]

14 Former Junction at Firsby Lincolnshire

[stuving]

7. The city is Zurich. I ought to have recognised its layout, having been there not so long ago ... but didn't.

So most of those "Metro" lines are trams and buses, with just a few S-Bahn lines (drawn narrower) and no U-Bahn.

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7. The city is Zurich. I ought to have recognised its layout, having been there not so long ago ... but didn't.

It is - readable plan at https://www.zvv.ch/zvv-assets/fahrplan/pdf/stadt_zuerich.pdf from which this is a sample:

Good to see the various modes of transport on the same map - "people don't really mind if it's a train, a tram or a bus when they're going between places" paraphrases a comment I read. 

14 Former Junction at Firsby Lincolnshire

Yes - an astonishing journey.   Hammering across the flat lands of Lincolnshire, your train slows down in the middle of no-where and goes around this incredibly tight corner ... before accelerating away again.   It strikes me that perhaps the cheapest solution possible was chosen when it was realised that the train service to Skegness was still required ...

[Oxonhutch]

10: Only One:- Reset Superwoman

[stuving]

Good to see the various modes of transport on the same map - "people don't really mind if it's a train, a tram or a bus when they're going between places" paraphrases a comment I read. 

And there's more - boats on the Zurichsee, though on the degraded version you can't really see the ones along the Limmat. I hadn't spotted those, but oddly I had noticed how the river junction (of the Sihl and the Limmat) curves the "wrong way", without deducing anything useful from it. That too should have been helpful; the fact that the Limmat flows out of the Zurichsee never did feel quite right somehow.

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10: Only One:- Reset Superwoman

You are correct and very quick!   Did you identify all places?

P.S. I believe that at one time, six of the places could ave been reached in through carriages ...

[Oxonhutch]

Did you identify all places?

P.S. I believe that at one time, six of the places could ave been reached in through carriages ...

All except Chalk Food Mud which might be one of those six - I might see if that clue helps me - but then again, Hut My Woe might be the one. Further research required!

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Did you identify all places?

P.S. I believe that at one time, six of the places could ave been reached in through carriages ...

All except Chalk Food Mud which might be one of those six - I might see if that clue helps me - but then again, Hut My Woe might be the one. Further research required!

Background research ...



Big apology - please replace "Food" with "Foot" ... "Chalk Foot Mud" it should have been.   Totally my error ... sorry.

[Oxonhutch]

I think I have got it, but as far as I can see, one of these objects needs to be plural. Mud is already a collective noun, Feet won't work so it has to be Chalks.

And it might be one of the six - still doing my research.

Modified to add, if I am right about the above, - it is one of the six!

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I think I have got it, but as far as I can see, one of these objects needs to be plural. Mud is already a collective noun, Feet won't work so it has to be Chalks.

And it might be one of the six - still doing my research.

Modified to add, if I am right about the above, - it is one of the six!

Yes - I have checked back and in this particular case it's a plural - there are other stations with a singular.    There are five very clear, a further one which is certain but will come as a surprise to many youngsters not aware of the history and another that I would describe as plausible, but I have no evidence it actually happened.  TV evidence suggests that in recent times there was a direct coach run by Dave - a local independent operator.

[Hal]

11 is Ffarquhar (Thomas the Tank Engine)

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11 is Ffarquhar (Thomas the Tank Engine)

Yes, it is - https://ttte.fandom.com/wiki/Ffarquhar and https://ttte.fandom.com/wiki/Ffarquhar_Branch_Line

The Ffarquhar Branch Line, previously the Elsbridge Branch Line and commonly known as Thomas' Branch Line, runs between Knapford and Ffarquhar and was awarded to Thomas after recovering James from an accident. The section between Knapford and Elsbridge was the original route of the Tidmouth, Knapford and Elsbridge Railway.

[eightonedee]

2 is around Morar on the last stretch of the West Highland into Mallaig

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2 is around Morar on the last stretch of the West Highland into Mallaig

Yes - and I have updated the original post to "cut in" the answers so far.  And here are the answers to the anagrams in question 10 (where the starter was London Paddington).  Clearly all worked out by Oxonhutch (who correctly identified which anagram was / is incorrecly set up ...

** Hut my Woe - Weymouth
** Gears Wink - Kingswear
** Chalks foot mud - Falmouth Docks
King unseal - Gunnislake
* Bridal Yarns - Barry Island
*** Reset Superwoman - Weston-super-mare
** Afraid rough shrub - Fishguard Harbour
Cheap placable rulebooks - Blackpool Pleasure Beach
** House and stone - Southend on Sea
Pointy gremlin - Lymington Pier
Hippies Hall - Shippea Hill
Borrowed snug tit - Stourbridge Town

*** - through services today
** - through services in the past
* - MIGHT have been a through carriage??