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The change of trains is baffling me. Could it be somewhere on the Isle of Sheppey? |
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Another guessing game? What fun! An anonymous town that needs a rail change and you haven't been there for a long time. And you didn't like it first time round. No culture then? Sounds like the Thames Valley - Bracknell? Wokingham? |
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Conservative Party Headquarters? |
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Sheerness is only about an hour from Victoria - possibilities that do fit include Camberley/Frimley, Islip, Melton Mowbray, Newhaven, Rye, Seaford, Sleaford, Spalding, and Sudbury (Suffolk, not Harrow).
But Islip would have been a real pain to get to in 1987 - the station didn't re-open until 1989: I don't think Melton, Sleaford or Spalding can be seriously considered to be in the South East (and I'm dubious about Sudbury), you've been to Newhaven and Seaford quite recently, and I can't believe you wouldn't like Rye. So that leaves Camberley |
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Oh, and it can't be Bracknell, you don't need to change trains to get there. |
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I'm thinking somewhere on the various Reading-Strood branch lines. Blackwater? Leigh? Snodland? Otherwise, maybe Lymington, Harwich or Felixstowe? |
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You know, for the first time ever, something I've read on your blog took me back in time - possibly even 40 years ago. Train - mystery tour - brown (don't know why that colour occurred to me except it was always the colour of the livery on the railway mystery tours one of my parents thought would be fun to do). Weird! |
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Margate and its Turner gallery? |
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Yes - Margate - must be?! dg writes: No, for the good reason that Margate was the destination of Mystery Tour 1 in 2008. |
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jaywick |
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I should have looked at the timetable more closely - that one hour timing to Sheerness was based on a connection clearly shown in the timetable, until you realise that the branch train leaves Sittingbourne seven minutes BEFORE the train from Victoria arrives! |
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Feeling a bit smug, a Man of Kent, had it sussed from the get-go. |
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