orford Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Flippin' heck..............I only know the answer to one of them. And I thought I KNEW about railways. Trouble is most of them are neither on the Great Eastern or in Maine, USA - which limits my knowledge options somewhat. Happy New Year to you, Andy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted December 29, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 29, 2015 I assume you've got #32 though...... Is that with or without Special Fried Rice? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Is that with or without Special Fried Rice? Ho, ho, ho! And a Merry Christmas to you too Mike...... Hold on, I think our local Chinese was closed over festive period though. No wonder my order never got through. EDIT I tell a lie. Apparently they are open all bank holidays, though they close every Monday & Tuesday. And #32 is Sweet & Sour Mixed Veg. Maybe ALL the correct answers are from Andy's local takeaway. But surely there'e not a Dry Spare Ribs Tunnel beneath the Pennines? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 I assume you've got #32 though...... Nope (and I don't know why you should make that assumption, perhaps you could explain your reasoning) but I've got number 25 without pounding the internet. Regards, EDIT - forget the parenthesises, penny just dropped big time- no explanation necessary. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Nope (and I don't know why you should make that assumption, perhaps you could explain your reasoning) but I've got number 25 without pounding the internet. Regards, EDIT - forget the parenthesises, penny just dropped big time- no explanation necessary. I found that #25 was one of the hardest of the lot. #24 is also a bit of a bummer, until one realises what one is actually looking at..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ticketyboo72 Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Nice quiz - good challenge for my dad in the run up to New Year methinks! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dagworth Posted December 29, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 29, 2015 Again, for you maybe! Easy if you signed it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted December 30, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 30, 2015 Easy if you signed it There are a number of places i sign in the quiz and that terminal isnt one of them, one of the tunnels threw me for a while despite riving through it regularly Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted December 30, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 30, 2015 There are a number of places i sign in the quiz and that terminal isnt one of them, one of the tunnels threw me for a while despite driving through it regularly One of them threw me as well - despite the fact I have stood near the end of it watching trains go to & fro. One of those daft moments when 'I know where that is' comes into your mind and then you spend forever puzzling quite how you recognise it - and what was I doing there? Another of the tunnels also required some careful checking to make absolutely sure that it wasn't another nearby that has some visual similarities (and which might appeal to a slightly crafty quizmaster for certain reasons). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold stovepipe Posted December 30, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 30, 2015 All done! No. 13 took me the longest.... Is it too early for a sherry? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted December 30, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 30, 2015 Got about half of them after a quick read through and a judicious bit of Google earth to check one or two but some have got me well stumped. Now have to decide whether or not to spend waste the whole afternoon trying to get the rest rather than modelling. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 All done! No. 13 took me the longest.... Is it too early for a sherry? Luckily I remembered that I'd seen that image before on one of Andy's travels earlier this year. Also Andy doesn't appear to have a Scottish Passport either.......... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Crikey. That was harder than Biffa Bacons dad. Who's off to look for his Arkansas stone cos that's well hard too. P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted December 31, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 31, 2015 He hasn't got a Scottish passport?? I've been all the way to Wick on Google maps! Now you say... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axlebox Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Crikey. That was harder than Biffa Bacons dad. Got stuck on the one with a lion on it so I rang Porcy who said 'its got a lion on it' and hung up...well it might have been obvious to you Mr Mane...but it still took me another 10 minutes before the penny finally dropped... The rest were fairly straight forward after that... A/box Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Got stuck on the one with a lion on it so I rang Porcy who said 'its got a lion on it' and hung up... Well: That was a lion with a very poor mane and as everybody knows real lions only come with a straight tails. P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Martin Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 After getting 37 on Christmas Day and two of the others the day after, I FINALLY got the last one this afternoon. If I hadn't been so close to completing it, I'd probably have given up; but I couldn't stand the thought of being soooo near without getting the whole lot. Of course, I am assuming here that all my answers are correct! Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dagworth Posted January 1, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 1, 2016 All bar 3, couldn't get one of the maps, one of the aerial stations and one of the disuseds Andi Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted January 1, 2016 Author Share Posted January 1, 2016 Well done to everyone who's taken part. I'll publish the list of answers and the leading results later on in the morning. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted January 1, 2016 Author Share Posted January 1, 2016 First of all I guess I should apologise for stealing many hours from some peoples' holidays but I know a few do enjoy these activities. OK, so here are the answers for those left scratching their heads. Click to enlarge if needed. The one which tripped several people up was number 22, Edward Johnston. Many went for Eric Gill of Gill Sans fame who indeed contribute to Johnston's London Underground typeface. 613433 is a new one on me as a number for Winston Churchill on the plaque; where the hell did that come from? It must have been tough going as only five people got the full set: Axlebox 40 Jim Martin 40 Porcy Mane 40 Peter Kazmierczak 40 The Stationmaster 40 Honourable mention must also go to these other high scoring entries. Stovepipe 38 Southern42 38 Dagworth 37 Northroader 37 EddieB 33 All of the top scorers completed the tiebreak correctly too (I suppose that was easy having gone through all the tough stuff) so I am happy for the honour to be shared and an A* for Peter Kazmierczak being the first person to enter and return a full set of correct answers. Well done everyone and thanks for taking part. Yes, I'd better spend at least some time north of the border next year! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 I really MUST get a life...................................... Thanks to Andy for getting those brain cells working. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted January 1, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 1, 2016 Thanks Andy - a lovely (at times) diversion from the tv and sitting & eating/drinking. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 34151 Winston Churchill ? Stewart Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 And with my (as ever) pedantic hat on, are those the correct lengths of Woodhead and Standedge................. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted January 1, 2016 Author Share Posted January 1, 2016 34151 Winston Churchill ? Stewart Apologies for the typo; I could get a job down Oxfordshire way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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