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What geographical anomaly connects the following railway stations at this time of year?

* Buckfastleigh
* Wallingford
* Corris
* Princes Risborough
* Dereham
* Birmingham Moor Street
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Do they all claim to run fast services to the same destination? But none of them actually get there?

At least, I don't think there's a station at the North Pole yet...

OR... Do all these stations claim to be the North Pole?
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RobbieM wrote: 13 Dec 2022, 23:42At least, I don't think there's a station at the North Pole yet...
A certain Mr Hanks (or his animated avatar) might disagree with you...
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RobbieM wrote: 13 Dec 2022, 23:42 Do they all claim to run fast services to the same destination? But none of them actually get there?

At least, I don't think there's a station at the North Pole yet...

OR... Do all these stations claim to be the North Pole?
Southern trains stop at North Pole regularly.
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Yes, all these stations are currently boarding points for services to the North Pole.

However the geographical anomaly is that the trains travel south to get there!
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RJSRdg wrote: 17 Dec 2022, 15:00 Yes, all these stations are currently boarding points for services to the North Pole.

However the geographical anomaly is that the trains travel south to get there!
How anomalous! I didn't spot that bit of the puzzle.
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And another question from me:

Which two stations on the Tube map have statues of Edward VII outside them?
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RJSRdg wrote: 12 Jan 2023, 00:36 And another question from me:

Which two stations on the Tube map have statues of Edward VII outside them?
Reading and Tooting Broadway? I guessed the first from your wording (on a shortlist with Slough) but took a little while to find the second because of so much material about the statue in Waterloo Place.
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David

Well done, they're the two I was thinking of anyway! (In case anyone comes up with another one I didn't know about....)

My forum "handle" was another hint to the first one....

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Another question from me (again railway related):

What connects:

Jools Holland
Bernard Cribbins
The Two Ronnies?
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Am I along the right lines with this:

Jools Holland - appeared in "The Tube"
Bernard Cribbins - appeared in "The Railway Children"
The Two Ronnies - - appeared in a Tube/Railway stations sketch?

I guess there's more to it than that, but it's hopefully got the ball rolling with guessing the answer.
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It's to do with something they appeared in (or on) but it's more specific than that.
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Nobody got my last question, to which the answer is that they were all "shrunk down" by the magic of television and travelled on model railways - Bernard for a Hornby advert, Ronnie C & B for a musical sketch about a narrow gauge train driver and fireman (filmed on the well-known Dovey Valley Railway layout) and Jules rode on his own model railway/slot car layout in the opening credits to one of his TV shows.

Now a new question - what do the numbers one, seven, nine and ten have in common? (And no, "One of Ten" wasn't a Borg Drone....)
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RJSRdg wrote: 31 Mar 2023, 15:19 Nobody got my last question, to which the answer is that they were all "shrunk down" by the magic of television and travelled on model railways - Bernard for a Hornby advert, Ronnie C & B for a musical sketch about a narrow gauge train driver and fireman (filmed on the well-known Dovey Valley Railway layout) and Jules rode on his own model railway/slot car layout in the opening credits to one of his TV shows.

Now a new question - what do the numbers one, seven, nine and ten have in common? (And no, "One of Ten" wasn't a Borg Drone....)
They're the only numbers that appear on the tube map - Marylebone, Seven Sisters, Nine Elms and Tottenham Court Road
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Alternatively - they're the clotting factors that are vitamin K dependent
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