DerekC
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Locomotive number?
Sorry, not that either.Locomotive number?
As you say, it is wrong. However, you are in the right area.I've never heard of the book, so here's an off-the-wall suggestion: is it connected with the mileage from somewhere to somewhere?
I've just looked it up, and I'm none the wiser about the actual book ... although I do know what the title now means, though! I'll leave it for others to guess (my suggestion above is wrong, by the way).
Sorry, wrong again, but you are in the right area of railway knowledge. It is not an American book: it is set on this side of the Atlantic.Milepost? (if it's an American book a 1222 milepost would be a possibility)
Since the statutory 48 hours has passed, I think we can declare open floor!
Anne Holt’s detective/thriller novel 1222 starts with a railway accident. However, the title has a particular railway significance. What is it?
Sorry, no.The number of the locomotive?
Sorry, no. (But I like the thinking.)Bell code for signalling? 1-2-2-2?
Sorry, no.The wheel arrangement of the loco involved in the accident?
Correct. The book is set, or at least starts, at Finse, which is the highest station in Norway. The highest point is in the tunnel a little further west.Finse 1222m highest point of the Bergen railway.
Correct. The book is set, or at least starts, at Finse, which is the highest station in Norway. The highest point is in the tunnel a little further west.
I hand over the setter’s quill pen to you.
Dundee?
A station on the Dundee & Newtyle?
Broughty Ferry, the station the south bank opposite Dundee? Or maybe Golf Links Halt?
3 half a point, it is not in Aachen, where is it and what is special about it?3 - Porta Nigra is a city gate. (In Aachen?)
4 - Regensburg Cathedral
8 - A valley, possibly up behind Freiburg i. B.
9 - An early aeronaut.
4 - Is it to do with the spire? (I keep thinking of spätzle, which is edible, if heavy going.)3 half a point, it is not in Aachen, where is it and what is special about it?
4 something to do with that building
8+9 correct