q6

[dubdobdee]

6.

i: Which line is left where for buns?
ii: Where did the express train draw up unwontedly?
iii: On what railroad do livestock pass free through the toll gate?
iv: To what do the words “Jamme, jamme, ’ncoppa, jamme jà” apply?
v: Where did the convict and the boy with violin go on till the train came in?
vi: Whence the goods, delaying the eight o’clock excursion train for an hour (or more)?
vii: What station was the Catalan surrealist’s “Centre of the Universe”?
viii: Where, in reality, did Celia and Trevor enjoy a short relationship?
ix: Where was the Normandy train’s arrival depicted?
x: Where did Nordens Strauss locate his gallop?

INCOMPLETE: we need i and vi, and a confirm on ii!

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

viii: is from my mum's favourite film, Brief Encounter!!

ii: might be the Railway Children

[ruudboy.livejournal.com]

I think Brief Encounter was filmed at Carnforth station. I should know, I've been past it. It's somewhere like that, on the Lancashire/Cumbria borders.

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

Is ii Adlestrop?

iii is this:



viii was filmed at Carnforth, I think.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

I really must get quicker at seeing these :)

Yes to Carnforth

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

So if it's train stationd the answer there is new orleans? But maybe it's not trsin stations....

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Rock Island Line will do here, I think. Stan Freberg's version is the best obv ("Y-you gonna release the rekkid?" "I don't think so" "O-Kaaaay" "O-Kaaaay")

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I would be delighted if i) is the Sir Mix-a-Lot Express

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

So the theme is train stations?

[livejournal.livejournal.com]

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[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

ffs

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

vii's surrealist is presumably Dalí. So could the station be Figueres?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

ps ddd I have reopened Q2 sorry!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

+google

Not Figueres, turns out to be Perpignan in fact.

ew, do not read, related bizarre serial killer doings: http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/mar/09/features11.g23

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

ix is Gare St Lazare, 'Arrival of the Normandy Train at the Gare St Lazare' is a Monet painting. (Also because errrrrr St Lazare is where all the trains from Normandy come in, but pretty sure that's the reference!)

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

x: "Nordens Strauss" means "the Strauss of the Nordic Countries" (or, a bit more generally, "...of the North"), which may quite conceivably refer to the Danish composer Lumbye, known like the Strausses of Vienna for waltzes, galops and so on. Unfortunately, the only galop of his I know off the top of my head is the Champagne Galop, but it's not unlikely that another one is named after some train station.

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Yup: wiki says about Hans Christian Lumbye:

Lumbye is best known for his light compositions, many of which evoke non-musical sources. The Champagne Galop, for example, begins with the "pop" of a champagne cork, and the Copenhagen Steam Railway Galop faithfully recreates the sounds of a train chugging out of a station and grinding to a halt at the next stop. He honored the Swedish Nightingale with a "Souvenir de Jenny Lind, Vals" from 1845.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

GOOGLY:

iv. “Jamme, jamme, ’ncoppa, jamme jà” is a lyric from an Italian song 'Funiculi Funicula', written to celebrate the new funicular railway going up Mt Vesuvius in 1880.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

NB the railway has been shut since Vesuvius' last eruption during WW2 - you now have to WALK up and by gum I would not recommend it on a hot day (you can get a tourbus up most of the way but still OOF).

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

GOOGLE BUN:

i) A number of half-baked possibilities here - the Railway Children eat pink sticky buns; the Black Bun Hogmanay train runs on the Bo'ness-Kinneil heritage line; the Spanisch-Brötli-Bahn meant you could travel from Zurich to Baden overnight to buy BUNS then bring them back in time for elevenses.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

very fogged memory of a children's story in in which a train-set is used to deliver buns along a large table
(i googled gub gub, the pig in dr dolittle, in this regard, but came up with nothing)

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

(googled)

v. is Upway station from a poem by Thomas Hardy - http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/160/at-the-railway-station,-upway.html