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Post by afarlie on Apr 24, 2010 16:10:13 GMT
Curious this - there are a couple of spelling and orthographical presentation differences from the norm - these aren't clues, perchance? +1 to all three, and the hint is Goole - Allport failed with the Euston Square lot to gain access to Hull [1] (Allport = MS&L blerk) Go [leave] o [nothing] le [eva luated/all - homophone] rightl y [semi-vowel used as a partial orthographical equivalent for the terminal phoneme] ISTR that there have been timetabled services from all putative answers to Goole. [1] Hull is a port so Allport was 'Noport'. Wow, an over-analysis Although that's one explanation, it's not the one I had when setting the clue. You can award yourself some points though
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Post by afarlie on Apr 24, 2010 16:07:54 GMT
If I'm thinking along similar lines, 2 would fit Al denham. Orthographical interpretation is a boon. Indeed. I had another reason for setting the clue the way I did though, and it needs you to know something about the area concerned.
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Post by afarlie on Apr 23, 2010 19:41:29 GMT
Considered meduim. ( I note no ones attempted Yesterdays clues)
1. No limes for Bishopsgate. 2. Traveller heads for Scotland , the Monarch was angry. 3. Money once Sunk , but the station was not lost.
Hint: Leave nothing evaluated rightly.
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Post by afarlie on Apr 22, 2010 15:51:52 GMT
Today's clues, are considered difficult 1. The studio's heading for the Antarctic!! Elstree South2. No ancient rite for commoners end. Bushey Heath3. Watling street, Archaeology below and above !! Brockley HillHint: So close, and yet so far away...
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Post by afarlie on Apr 21, 2010 16:24:47 GMT
(Assistance in clue setting requested)
1. Dutch visitors must be in good health when visiting the estate. Elm Park 2. Half a mile, and still not the mainline 3. 124! What A-way to cross a river! Upminster Bridge
Hint: All in the neighbourhood
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Post by afarlie on Apr 21, 2010 16:14:35 GMT
Then Silvertown (for Tate & Lyle's sugar refinery)? Yes According to Wikipedia it was originally part of the Eastern Counties and Thames Junction, not the North London
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Post by afarlie on Apr 20, 2010 20:01:48 GMT
Nearest thing I can find on the former NLR to anything sweet is MILDmay Park (between Dalston Junction and Canonbury), but it seems a bit recherche. No3 isn't strictly speaking NLR (something I should have mentioned when setting the clue perhaps...) 313 units reached it though .
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Post by afarlie on Apr 20, 2010 19:52:10 GMT
No hint today but here's 3 devious clues 1. Beneath the standards of W4. Gunnersbury2. Dark cloaked monks - silent for a time. Blackfriars3. Not a tractor to be seen at the empire's quay. Imperial Wharf
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Post by afarlie on Apr 19, 2010 22:12:29 GMT
Buses 521 and 523 "land" at North Weald airfield to serve the market there. I guess the other one is Blake Hall then - presumably a reference to the poet William Blake, but why "six of one" - anything to do with Blake's Seven? No , It's to do with passenger numbers. You seem to have got today's clues rather too quickly
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Post by afarlie on Apr 19, 2010 18:23:34 GMT
All are ( or were) London Stations - LU/LO or NR. 1. Zero, but watch out for the scorpions sting. Ongar2. Six of one, but none could save the poets haunt. Blake Hall3. 521 & 523 landing for the market. North WealdHint: These won't be central to anyone now. For the benefit of others , if you want to provide explanations feel free.
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Post by afarlie on Apr 19, 2010 10:58:42 GMT
Carbonate Stables is surely Chalk Farm. Flowers growing above might be Primrose Hill, ("only", because it's closed?) And that fits with Broad Street being the end of the line In that case, as the monarch not amused is presumably Victoria, are we looking at Victoria Park (near the present Hackney Wick station), which was the junction where a "line forgotten" left the present line for the Royal Docks. No idea about No 2 though! +1 . For both 1 (Primrose Hill, formerly Chalk Farm (LNWR)) & 3 (Victoria Park (NLR &) Also on Broad Street for the hint. Which makes me think not King William Street for No. 2. What seems as if it might fit is Cranley Gardens. Cranley Gardens was Great Northern NOT North London.
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Post by afarlie on Apr 18, 2010 17:43:50 GMT
All are London area stations ( LUL, NR or LO). Be careful though as these are not going to be easy 1. From carbonate stables, Now only the flowers grow above. Primrose Hill( formerly Chalk Farm)2. Sweet things, but trains have long since left. Silvertown3. A Monarch not amused, by lines forgotten split. Victoria ParkHint: A wide way was where the line in glory terminated.
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Post by afarlie on Apr 13, 2010 23:15:43 GMT
BVE Exchange Forum, got a note saying suspended account?
Anyone know if this a temporary glitch?
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Post by afarlie on Apr 6, 2010 22:36:22 GMT
The Trainsimmers Against Trespass page is in the process of being updated at a new URL : railsafety.bve-exchange.co.uk/index.htmlI would strongly urge people to update their links Feedback on the new site is also welcomed Alex Farlie.
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Post by afarlie on Apr 3, 2010 11:53:04 GMT
Surely, don't all our other forum members who also do BVE have this information already encoded? There's enough BVE LU routes around so you could find half your job is done for you. Try a PM to Tomcakes........ Hmm.. The reason I was asking was to try and 'finescale' some objects. I've been able to find width data on a railway modelmaking site, but not the height information
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Post by afarlie on Apr 1, 2010 14:20:33 GMT
Does anyone happen to know of a diagram that provides the figures to construct a rail profile for LU style track (both running and conductor rails?)
I've seen various references to a particular British Standards (which is presumably why there isn't a published diagram online.)
In basic terms ( object construction for OpenBVE) the figures needed are
- Bullhead/ Flatbottom or Rectanglur profile type - Base width - Base height - Stem width - Head height - Head width - Overall Height...
I know that rail profiles CAN be more complex than this though..
Additionally does anyone here know what dimension 'standards' were applied to LU sleepers?
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Post by afarlie on Mar 22, 2010 21:36:04 GMT
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Post by afarlie on Mar 22, 2010 16:33:04 GMT
Hi. I was wondering if anyone had a list of 'surface' entrance heights above ground level for various London Tube Stations..
I can then use this information alongside the lift/escalator data on Clive's Undergound Line Guides site, to figure out a VERY rough gradient profile for some trainsim projects I have in motion.
The station I am needing data for in particular are... In connection with a Jubilee line route.. * Finchley Road. ( And yes I know the platforms are at a different level) * Swiss Cottage * St Johns Wood * Baker Street * Bond Street * Green Park
In connection with a recode of the Beck Line route.. * Euston * Holborn * Aldwych * Waterloo * Lambeth North * Kennington * Brixton
The Beck Line route also encounters the following Rail stations * Loughbrough Junction * Herne Hill * Streatham * Streatham Hill * Mitcham Junction * (Former Waddon Marsh) * East Croydon
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Post by afarlie on Mar 16, 2010 11:29:36 GMT
Excuse me but does anyone know why BVE Exchange is offline? (I get an Apache default install page notice rather than the site)
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Post by afarlie on Feb 24, 2010 15:24:36 GMT
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Post by afarlie on Jan 12, 2010 11:57:33 GMT
They say Wisdom is to the East, but not nesscacrily in this instance, also some of you are not only North of the river, but way way North of the answers Comment has been made as to the nature of the clue set, If you follow the lines of thinking, your might find some more of the answers. Once again, I will comment that the "What's in a name?" book was used in setting part of this clue..
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Post by afarlie on Jan 10, 2010 20:59:53 GMT
Hmmm.....I'll risk my neck by saying the Spanish Queen refers to Elephant and Castle. Infanta de Castile.... There seem to be a lot of Temply and masonicky references in there. Are the two Our Lady churches in Willesden? I'd have said Stoke Newington,but it doesn't have a tube station.... Nuns' fair fruit could be Co(n)vent Garden... ROFL Masonic references ? on a cryptic tube station quiz , ROFL... You'll be telling me about how the district line is aligned with loads of churches next!! (Big hint!!)
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Post by afarlie on Jan 10, 2010 12:10:27 GMT
Plenty of stations to find in this fiendishly hard cryptic riddle... This should take at LEAST a week to solve (Hint the first line refers to 2 stations 'linked' via a third.. and if you get the right connection, the rest become easier) The scholars of an ancient rite by path though forest cleared. Thence to place the spanish queen And north, the ancient market to whence the vision came. Two churches of our lady, upon the southward , feature in the game. And inside the churches oval, between two squares that lie within nuns fair fruit shall point one past treasures sought but not too sing. The wisdom moved yet held once Eastward and above, and pointed down a monarchs passage, you shall find again.
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Post by afarlie on Dec 11, 2009 20:14:28 GMT
After three nights' worth of bedtime reading my 'Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names' finally yielded up the nugget of information that Gloucester Road was named after Maria, Duchess of Gloucester. So ... Gloucester Road. Me appluds... It is indeed Gloucester Road for the reasons you mention. By request, no new clues will be posted until the new year... but watch out the next set of clues won't be easy to solve.
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Post by afarlie on Dec 9, 2009 16:20:47 GMT
Maria's passage is a pram! Bebecar or McClaren or similar. But I can't think of anything related on the District! Unless.... Green for District, passage where you have to step. Stepney Green? Or is that just too tenuous? Nope... It's not pram related... And It's not Stepney Green .
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Post by afarlie on Dec 9, 2009 15:59:58 GMT
Even with the tunnels themselves there are many variables - how wide are the tunnels, how deep, and is pressurised air being used, what sewers, pipes, cable, foundations etc are in the way, how many construction and ventilation shafts are being dug, what sort of surface disruption is expected, how many station/platform tunnels (i.e. how many stations) etc., as well as costs related to tunnel approaches (i.e. land purchase and surface demolition). Another factor is labour costs, and together with material coasts might be cheaper in a recession. Actually in a recession , labour costs for 'skilled' work may be less flexible This is because : i) A lot of skilled work have trade unions who rightly or wrongly will try to ensur their members wages are comparable if not competitive to those of a more bouyant period. ii) Workers are more likely to stay 'on the job' due to the scarcity of 'other' work. I am however not an economist .
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Post by afarlie on Dec 8, 2009 11:47:59 GMT
It is indeed Hanger Lane, If you read the Wikipedia article on the station it says part of the station is right in the MIDDLE of one of the roundabouts of the gyratory
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Post by afarlie on Dec 7, 2009 23:39:47 GMT
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Post by afarlie on Dec 7, 2009 23:39:08 GMT
Nope, Although Hillingdon is close to the A40
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Post by afarlie on Dec 7, 2009 23:37:39 GMT
St Mary le Bow is the one on Cheapside, and the home of Bow Bells. Bow Church is also, confusingly, dedicated to St Mary. The "Bow" in both cases is an arch - in the Cheapside version it is the arched vault of the church itself. In the E8 version it is the arched bridge that replaced the ford that carried the Roman Road to Colchester across the River Lea (hence "Street Ford" (Stratford), on the other side of the river). Hmm... I'll have to remember that for a clue in the new year!
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