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Traveller
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I don't believe it! What an opening! Thank you AV! ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
Mornington Crescent
Where to start the new game? Hmmm.
Ladbroke Grove has some interesting opening gambits for you all to enjoy.
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AberVicar
Mornington Star
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Very glad you had the nous to recognise the chance, Traveller. I think we'd better go to
Leamington Spa
given that Dollis Hill is in Knid until it stops snowing.
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kingsfold
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No snow here, so Dollis Hill would be a valid move. But wanting to avoid the somewhat inevitable loop, I suspect Hyndland may be a better play.
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Baptist Trainfan
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AV, that was an exceedingly daring (or may I even say foolhardy?) move to make, especially during daytime. Anyway, you got away with it - perhaps they were all at lunch. But why didn't you take the safer route north via Rugby?
Now, we have been talking loops but I give you circles in reply - and Scottish ones at that! Cathcart.
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Mornington Star
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BT - I have a natural preference for GWR where possible.
So why not go to
Swindon
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kingsfold
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Because of the roundabouts, that's why.
Westbury
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Chorister
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Using my snow points at last - whizzing along the down slide to Penzance.
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Mornington Star
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Saint Erth
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Baptist Trainfan
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Thinking of tomorrow's weather, and returning to London as we are wont, I think we need to go to a station once known as Snow Hill or Holborn Viaduct (Low Level) but now tamely called City Thameslink.
Get your shovel, brazier and fog signals ready, AV. And call out a Pilot Engne to see you through the drifts.
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Pulsator Organorum Ineptus
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Ah, then I can employ the so-called Duke of Lancaster's Slip to play
Burnley (Barracks) (L&YR)
Eeh lad! It's grim Up North!
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Baptist Trainfan
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Ah, you need to make a visit to Bleath Gill - enjoy the video!
(Admittedly Bleath Gill was not a station. But I believe that this move is still permitted under the Northern Hemisphere (Exceptional Weather Dispensation) 1947 Amendment which has never been excised from the Rule Book, although unlikely to be invoked on the Central line west of North Acton, for example).
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Piglet
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If the lines are going to be afflicted with The Wrong Kind Of Snow™, then the best way to go is underground, where there won't be any:
Oxford Circus - if the weather's nasty, maybe the shops won't be too busy.
PS Welcome back, BT. ![[Smile]](smile.gif) **waves**
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My pilot engine has got me as far as
Panteg & Griffithstown
by means of some kind of time warp.
Perhaps KLB can tell us if there are any rules governing how we get back from here, as I'm damned if I know...
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kingsfold
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Who needs rules to tell you how to get back?
A little imagination should do it nicely, so I think we should take an interplanetary straddle to Betelgeuse. Might just sort the wrong sort of snow issues as well!
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Not on a Friday you don't! I think you're in personal Spoon for two melee rounds and have a -5 to action for 1 turn.
Meanwhile the rest of us can play our Holy Avenger +5 and woe betide any opponents of chaotic evil alignment.
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Baptist Trainfan
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You all need to calm down ... dear, dear, such childish behaviour!
A visit to Trumpton is clearly in order.
There.
(Mind you, I do wonder about the weather situation in the top left-hand corner of Wales ... has anyone heard from Ivor and his Friends?)
[ 18. January 2013, 11:10: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ]
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Mornington Star
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They've all gone to
Pontypool Road
to keep warm.
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Chorister
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Snow on the line - all trains cancelled!
Aviemore Sledge shop
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kingsfold
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Not up here they're not!
Helensburgh
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Nor here!
Llanybydder
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Baptist Trainfan
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They are DEFINITELY no trains here until March: Clogwyn.
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Piglet
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There aren't any here either - the Newfoundland railway was closed many years ago with a speed that would have impressed Mr. Beeching. However, there's a couple of carriages and a snow-plough preserved at Avondale, which you might find useful at the moment over on your side of the Pond ... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Archway
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Baptist Trainfan
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quote:
Originally posted by piglet:
However, there's a couple of carriages and a snow-plough preserved at Avondale, which you might find useful at the moment over on your side of the Pond ...
Yesss ... but wasn't the Newfoundland Railway narrow-gauge? Its trains wouldn't fit our rails!
I trump your Archway with my London Bridge.
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Mornington Star
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Thus opening up a wide diagonal to
Mornington Crescent
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
Let's start again up-to-date and in another part of the world:
Sandton
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Chorister
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Aha, you didn't realise I've been keeping a secret stash of red counters under my bed!
Komsomolskaya
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Baptist Trainfan
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What about Clydebank (Central)? - Mrs. BT's home town, as it happens.
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Pulsator Organorum Ineptus
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Now that we are within sight of tidal waters I can, under the Maritime Dispensation Rule (1922), travel by steamer (choice of Caledonian or Glasgow and South Western) to
Brodick (Isle of Arran)
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Piglet
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Oh well, if we're talking about islands:
Ballasalla, where there was a Seriously Good Restaurant.
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Belsize Park
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Traveller
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Ah! Zut alors. Je pense que les chips rouges permit me to voyager to Filles du Calvaire, as it's not in spoon on a Sunday evening.
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I will praise my God while I have my being.
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Baptist Trainfan
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On the other hand, goulash-lovers could try visiting Vörösmarty tér on the oldest Underground line in mainland Europe.
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Piglet
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Avignon
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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The Weeder
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Lindesfarne
Not entirely sure where this leads, but think it is worth a punt...
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Alaric the Goth
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Worth a Punt? Then we should go to Cork Glanmire Road, preferably when a B1a 4-6-0 is departing for Dublin...
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Traveller
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Next stop has to be St. Paul's for the service of thanksgiving for faithful duty.
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I will praise my God while I have my being.
Psalm 104 v.33
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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I think both are acceptable plays. Obscure Blackadder reference allows me to play Hull
[x-posted with Traveller. AV - you seem the most Humphlike here - ruling?]
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**zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz**
Eh?
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Baptist Trainfan
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Are you on a Sleeping Car service? They should have turfed you out long before now.
Fort William.
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Piglet
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It appears that recently the "Piglet Follows the Weeder" Convention has been superseded by the "Piglet Preceded by Pulsator" Protocol, which may require recourse to KLB's Little Book. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
While he's looking for it* and because it's still Monday (well, it is in Newfoundland) I'll content myself with playing
Chancery Lane and hope for the best.
* It's probably under the coffee-table - that's where it would be if it were in my house.
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