Posted by John Nichols on April 27, 2003 at 19:49:43 from 165.91.199.202 user Mcneacail.
In Reply to: sailor's delights posted by Harry Miller on April 27, 2003 at 18:57:27:
Dear All:
The question about Crewe relates to eliminating Rugby as Dick's School, would Dick have had to go to Crewe to get onto the Train with Dot if she left Euston as she is said to have.
Did the train not run through Rugby and on the day the school breaks up for the summer surely the school could get the main NS trains to stop, or was there no station then at Rugby. Here all I have is the currentl BR map so I am lost as anything.
There were only 125 EPS in the 1930's according to the Harrow Site and a link I found from it. We have enough information to have a good guess at the school from the times AR gave.
Like looking for copper, one just has to turn over enough rocks.
They reached Rio about 5-6 pm is my guess, so is there a train that fits, and Dick had to wait 37 minutes in Crewe, AR liked puzzles and this is a puzzle, that came form a mast height on the Swallow to the boathouse to Beckfoot to the moon to here.
Good hunting.
But what train left Crewe at about 1 - 2 ish that went to Rio, and then what train came in 37 minutes before the London train and where did it come from. The only realistc date is the 2 August 1933.
Easy really, grinning a lot.
PS I love model trains, I bought my Nephew a Great Western 0-4-0? (Like the show train, made by an English firm painted that great green colour.) Cost a fortune and he loved it. We burned out the engine.
Anyway work beckons.
One more thing, where is the Bay where Secret Water is set?
Great galoots is that the time.
John Nichols