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Mornington Crescent is a game featured in the BBC» Radio 4 comedy panel show "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" (ISIHAC). The game consists of each panellist in turn announcing a landmark or street, most often a tube station on the London Underground system. The ostensible aim is to be the first to announce "Mornington Crescent", a station on the Northern line.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_(game)Since few of us visit Mornington Crescent on a frequent basis, we'll play the West Country version with an aim to end up at Pilning. I'll give you a starter of Bude - from GWR▸ 's virtual branch lines. Here it is on their integrated bus route map:  |
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grahame
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« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2025, 08:32:24 » |
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I'll give you a starter of Bude - from GWR▸ 's virtual branch lines.
To help oil this - under the crossover rule, I give you Dawlish Warren ... |
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« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2025, 08:38:11 » |
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Early in the round I know,however using the Armitage Shanks gambit ,I see your Dawlish Warren,and raise you Bridgwater.
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« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2025, 08:45:24 » |
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Early in the round I know,however using the Armitage Shanks gambit ,I see your Dawlish Warren,and raise you Bridgwater.
You should be flushed with pride at finding that one! |
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« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2025, 08:50:14 » |
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In which case I'm going to Looe.
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« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2025, 08:55:31 » |
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In which case I'm going to Looe.
Par for the course. |
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Western Pathfinder
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« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2025, 09:21:26 » |
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Time for me to employ The Mortimer and Whitehouse variant , and without fishing for compliments I present to you Taunton.
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« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2025, 09:36:18 » |
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Time for me to employ The Mortimer and Whitehouse variant , and without fishing for compliments I present to you Taunton.
In which case I'll invoke Klemperer's Baton gambit and strike a diagonal to Totnes. Too predictable? |
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« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2025, 09:42:09 » |
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The obvious tactic at this point is to use the Reverse Klempermann Shuffle, so: Penryn.
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Things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.
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Western Pathfinder
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« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2025, 09:56:55 » |
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Time to employ the reverse Rushton and block that then takes us to Saint Andrews Road .
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« Reply #10 on: December 10, 2025, 10:01:00 » |
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Time to employ the reverse Rushton and block that then takes us to Saint Andrews Road .
Parallel move to South Bank - one of the few banks remaining open |
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« Reply #11 on: December 10, 2025, 10:47:59 » |
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Time to employ the reverse Rushton and block that then takes us to Saint Andrews Road .
Parallel move to South Bank - one of the few banks remaining open That's an illegal move, grahame - Western Pathfinder has put you in Nailsea (the local equivalent of Nidd). You forfeit a turn. |
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« Reply #12 on: December 10, 2025, 12:37:59 » |
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Fair point, Red Squirrel: as you know, we have no banks remaining open in Nailsea.
Personally, to avoid that forfeit, grahame, I'd have gone for Yatton.
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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grahame
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« Reply #13 on: December 10, 2025, 13:32:43 » |
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Personally, to avoid that forfeit, grahame, I'd have gone for Yatton.
Yeah - but I've been stuck at Yatton without a train and had to get out on a lemon (big one). It was worth the risk on no-one noticing. Nothing ventured, nothing gained! |
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« Reply #14 on: December 10, 2025, 18:24:57 » |
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Good old Yatton one of my favourite country railway stations,and I know it's mainline and cross-country go rattling through Without stopping just to disturb the peace,I've quite often in the past sat on the down platform and watched the glint of the setting sun.
Now enough of all our yesterdays,moving on we find ourselves at Yate.
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