Posted by Peter H on April 27, 2003 at 22:06:02 from 213.122.51.215 user Peter_H.
In Reply to: Re: sailor's delights - Rugby?? posted by John Nichols on April 27, 2003 at 21:57:00:
Eureka - I have still not found Bradshaw, but I have found ‘AR’s Railways’ by David Carter, a TARS publication. He agrees that Dick’s school is Shrewsbury! See p 17: -
If the London train was on time, what train could Dick have taken which would have required him to wait 37 minutes for his connection? The only one which ran (very nearly) to such a timetable was a West to North (Bristol to Manchester and Liverpool) train which left Shrewsbury at 12.50 and was scheduled to arrive at Crewe at 1.30, resulting in a wait of 34 minutes – so perhaps Dick’s train had been 3 minutes early that day, or Dorothea’s the same amount late. But there is of course a major public school at Shrewsbury, and it begins to look as if Dick may well have been educated there.
Oddly enough, I was speaking to David Carter only yesterday – I can fairly say that he won’t mind the extensive quote here.