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"Peter Masson" wrote:



"Chris Tolley" (ukonline really) wrote

"About five o'clock the carriage had emptied, and I was left alone as I
had hoped. I got out at the next station, a little place whose name I
scarcely noted, set right in the heart of a bog. It reminded me of one of
those forgotten little stations in the Karroo. An old stationmaster was
digging in his garden, and with his spade over his shoulder sauntered to
the train, took charge of a parcel and went back to his potatoes. A child
of ten received my ticket, and I emerged on a white road that straggled
over the brown moor."

Buchan could have had in mind Gatehouse-of-Fleet station, which was 7 miles
from the small town after which it was named

A colleague of mine bought the station as a holiday cottage. He always
claimed it was the one Buchan referred to.

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Peter Masson wrote:

"Chris Tolley" (ukonline really) wrote

"About five o'clock the carriage had emptied, and I was left alone as I
had hoped. I got out at the next station, a little place whose name I
scarcely noted, set right in the heart of a bog. It reminded me of one
of those forgotten little stations in the Karroo. An old stationmaster
was digging in his garden, and with his spade over his shoulder
sauntered to the train, took charge of a parcel and went back to his
potatoes. A child of ten received my ticket, and I emerged on a white
road that straggled over the brown moor."

Buchan could have had in mind Gatehouse-of-Fleet station, which was 7 miles
from the small town after which it was named - in the period before closure
only 3 trains per week (all down trains)were shown in the public timetable
as calling. Or possibly Loch Skerrow, a crossing loop and unadvertised
halt - but this didn't have any road access.
http://www.railbrit.co.uk/Portpatrick_Railway/frame.htm

Interesting. Is there any way of knowing if any of the trains in, say,
1913, were due to call at around 5pm?

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In message , Chris Tolley
writes

Interesting. Is there any way of knowing if any of the trains in, say,
1913, were due to call at around 5pm?

According to my 1929 Bradshaw (a few years later than 1913, of course),
the 2.35pm from Dumfries stopped at Gatehouse of Fleet at 4.12pm on
weekdays (one of only three trains a day to do so).
--
Paul Terry

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et, Sun, 1 Nov 2009 15:56:14, Chris Tolley
posted:

Interesting. Is there any way of knowing if any of the trains in, say,
1913, were due to call at around 5pm?


1914. Scudder was killed late on May 23rd, all the action is in less
than a month, and the final paragraph opens "Seven weeks later, ..., we
went to war." That was 4th August 1914, so the /Ariadne/ was taken
*about* June 16th. That agrees with the death of Karolides late on June
15th, pitting the taking on the 17th I think.

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In message , Chris Tolley
writes

Interesting. Is there any way of knowing if any of the trains in, say,
1913, were due to call at around 5pm?

According to my 1929 Bradshaw (a few years later than 1913, of course),
the 2.35pm from Dumfries stopped at Gatehouse of Fleet at 4.12pm on
weekdays (one of only three trains a day to do so).


In 1910 it was also an arrival at 4.12pm [the station then was named
Dromore]

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"Peter Masson" wrote:

"Chris Tolley" (ukonline really) wrote

"About five o'clock the carriage had emptied, and I was left alone as I
had hoped. I got out at the next station, a little place whose name I
scarcely noted, set right in the heart of a bog. It reminded me of one
of those forgotten little stations in the Karroo. An old stationmaster
was digging in his garden, and with his spade over his shoulder
sauntered to the train, took charge of a parcel and went back to his
potatoes. A child of ten received my ticket, and I emerged on a white
road that straggled over the brown moor."

Buchan could have had in mind Gatehouse-of-Fleet station, which was 7 miles
from the small town after which it was named - in the period before closure
only 3 trains per week (all down trains)were shown in the public timetable
as calling. Or possibly Loch Skerrow, a crossing loop and unadvertised
halt - but this didn't have any road access.
http://www.railbrit.co.uk/Portpatrick_Railway/frame.htm

Or this
http://www.visitsouthwestscotland.com/attractioninfo.asp?attractID=5
referred to in an earlier thread.

Sam