Recent content by DerekC

You have evidently forgotten that DLR stations only count for half the usual number of Green Shield stamps, so it is unwise to call them more than twice running. I can get us out of this mess via Stratford

Sprotbrough

That’s all very well, but it’s very clear from analysis of the entrails of the wooden horse of Tooting that the Northern Line is not auspicious on Sundays. Accordingly we hurry along to Kensington Olympia.

I will put a copy of the Quail Map for Scotland down my trousers. (It wouldn't work with a kilt, would it?) You are right about Sandyford Halt and Paisley Abercorn, but then Renfrew South was also on the Paisley and Renfrew Railway, albeit only a couple of hundred yards south of the junction...

I must confess I find ownership of lines in this area completely confusing. Every line seems to be the "Glasgow, Paisley and ..." After Renfrew South we might have called at Sandyford Halt and Paisley Abercorn on our way to join the G&PJR. It seems as though the thread is off at a gallop, so...

Elderslie

I had intended to use quantum computing to optimise my move this time, running the latest beta release. Unfortunately the virtual cat had escaped from the box, so the application wouldn't run and I am left using pencil and paper. Burnt Oak.

I am afraid you have misread "I'm Sorry, I'll Write That Again" - you missed the double entendre at p75, line 23. For that I am going to send you to Turkey Street to wait for Christmas.

Next week I am travelling with Mrs C from Crewkerne to Alton and back - change at Woking. I wasn't expecting a reserved seat on the Woking-Alton and Alton-Woking legs, but I remembered reserving a seat on the Wessex Main Line service a few years ago. Crewkerne - Woking is two hours more or...

I think you might have done better than that. Marks on the Roman wall near Moorgate suggest that a variation of 3 deg 40 sec of arc should be allowed for when entering the Z-angle of the glide path, taken from the card. The difference it makes is highly significant - I calculate it's actually...

Now it's nearly midnight on the last day of the month, so I need a Zone 2 station that nobody will miss for a couple of hours, Oval

Moorhampton

Eardisley

That’s a real pain. I am sorry, but it is. I have to enter the four-dimensional space coordinates into my Brinkmann optimisation spreadsheet by hand, you know. If you had picked something sensible it would have been easy. No thought for the poor bl**dy operator, that’s the trouble. I‘ll fix...

Upwey (1st station)