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Discussion in 'Watford' started by colognehornet, Jun 26, 2013.

  1. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    Cheers Yorkie. Whilst on the subject of bridges, which is the busiest railway bridge in the World, in terms of numbers of trains passing over it per day ?
     
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  2. yorkshirehornet

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    Anything near Clapham Junction?

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  3. colognehornet

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    Nope, sorry Yorkie.
     
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  4. Jsybarry

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    Is it a bridge that is part of a model village - Beconskot possibly?
     
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  5. colognehornet

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    No sorry Barry.
     
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    I would guess that it might be in Switzerland with all that uneven ground needing bridges, but I don't know.
     
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  7. colognehornet

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    First clues. The bridge has around 1,200 trains crossing it per day - mostly passenger trains.
     
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  8. colognehornet

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    Not in Switzerland Frenchie.
     
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  9. colognehornet

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    Another clue - if Yorkie had travelled all of his recent holiday by train (ie. all the way from England) he would have certainly gone over it if using the fastest route.
     
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    Charing Cross bridge?
     
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  11. colognehornet

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    Sorry NZ. not in the UK.
     
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  12. yorkshirehornet

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  13. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    All yours Yorkie. It is the Hohenzollern bridge over the Rhine in Cologne. Actually in Wikipedia it says it is the most heavily used railway bridge in Germany - this is actually a Worldwide record (have actually researched this elsewhere). If you had taken the quickest rail journey to Budapest, it would have been via Brussels, Cologne, Munich, Vienna - hence the clue.
     
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  14. yorkshirehornet

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    Good one... as soon as i googled the route and saw germany i knew it had to be.....

    Ok.... which Arthur has been cleared after his death this spring
     
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  15. yorkshirehornet

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    Arthur was a best friend of someone we all have been with..

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  16. yorkshirehornet

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    Arthur was a best friend of someone we all have been with..

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  17. colognehornet

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    I'm confused by the 'cleared' bit. Was it Elton John's dog, Arthur, who died in March this year ?
     
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  18. yorkshirehornet

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    Yes..... and there was a court case recently??... just this last bit to get
     
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  19. colognehornet

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    Apparently Arthur has been cleared of having caused grievous bodily harm to a small girl. Elton has won libel damages against a newspaper which tried to attack Arthur's good name in this respect, but have conceded that the damage (wounds) were nothing like as serious as originally reported.
     
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  20. yorkshirehornet

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    yes ...well sleuthed!

    over to you
     
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