| AQ10 - "Pilning" - West Country Mornington Crescent Posted by grahame at 07:49, 10th December 2025 |     |
Mornington Crescent is a game featured in the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" (ISIHAC). The game consists of each panellist in turn announcing a landmark or street, most often a tube station on the London Underground system. The ostensible aim is to be the first to announce "Mornington Crescent", a station on the Northern line.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_(game)
Since few of us visit Mornington Crescent on a frequent basis, we'll play the West Country version with an aim to end up at Pilning.
I'll give you a starter of Bude - from GWR's virtual branch lines. Here it is on their integrated bus route map:
| Re: AQ10 - "Pilning" - West Country Mornington Crescent Posted by grahame at 08:32, 10th December 2025 | |
I'll give you a starter of Bude - from GWR's virtual branch lines.
To help oil this - under the crossover rule, I give you Dawlish Warren ...
| Re: AQ10 - "Pilning" - West Country Mornington Crescent Posted by Western Pathfinder at 08:38, 10th December 2025 | |
Early in the round I know,however using the Armitage Shanks gambit ,I see your Dawlish Warren,and raise you Bridgwater.
| Re: AQ10 - "Pilning" - West Country Mornington Crescent Posted by grahame at 08:45, 10th December 2025 | |
Early in the round I know,however using the Armitage Shanks gambit ,I see your Dawlish Warren,and raise you Bridgwater.
You should be flushed with pride at finding that one!
| Re: AQ10 - "Pilning" - West Country Mornington Crescent Posted by PrestburyRoad at 08:50, 10th December 2025 | |
In which case I'm going to Looe.
| Re: AQ10 - "Pilning" - West Country Mornington Crescent Posted by Oxonhutch at 08:55, 10th December 2025 | |
| Re: AQ10 - "Pilning" - West Country Mornington Crescent Posted by Western Pathfinder at 09:21, 10th December 2025 | |
Time for me to employ The Mortimer and Whitehouse variant , and without fishing for compliments I present to you Taunton.
| Re: AQ10 - "Pilning" - West Country Mornington Crescent Posted by johnneyw at 09:36, 10th December 2025 | |
Time for me to employ The Mortimer and Whitehouse variant , and without fishing for compliments I present to you Taunton.
In which case I'll invoke Klemperer's Baton gambit and strike a diagonal to Totnes.
Too predictable?
| Re: AQ10 - "Pilning" - West Country Mornington Crescent Posted by Red Squirrel at 09:42, 10th December 2025 | |
The obvious tactic at this point is to use the Reverse Klempermann Shuffle, so: Penryn.
| Re: AQ10 - "Pilning" - West Country Mornington Crescent Posted by Western Pathfinder at 09:56, 10th December 2025 | |
Time to employ the reverse Rushton and block that then takes us to Saint Andrews Road .
| Re: AQ10 - "Pilning" - West Country Mornington Crescent Posted by grahame at 10:01, 10th December 2025 | |
Time to employ the reverse Rushton and block that then takes us to Saint Andrews Road .
Parallel move to South Bank - one of the few banks remaining open
| Re: AQ10 - "Pilning" - West Country Mornington Crescent Posted by Red Squirrel at 10:47, 10th December 2025 | |
Time to employ the reverse Rushton and block that then takes us to Saint Andrews Road .
Parallel move to South Bank - one of the few banks remaining open
That's an illegal move, grahame - Western Pathfinder has put you in Nailsea (the local equivalent of Nidd). You forfeit a turn.
| Re: AQ10 - "Pilning" - West Country Mornington Crescent Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 12:37, 10th December 2025 | |
Fair point, Red Squirrel: as you know, we have no banks remaining open in Nailsea.
Personally, to avoid that forfeit, grahame, I'd have gone for Yatton.
| Re: AQ10 - "Pilning" - West Country Mornington Crescent Posted by grahame at 13:32, 10th December 2025 | |
Personally, to avoid that forfeit, grahame, I'd have gone for Yatton.
Yeah - but I've been stuck at Yatton without a train and had to get out on a lemon (big one). It was worth the risk on no-one noticing. Nothing ventured, nothing gained!
| Re: AQ10 - "Pilning" - West Country Mornington Crescent Posted by Western Pathfinder at 18:24, 10th December 2025 | |
Good old Yatton one of my favourite country railway stations,and I know it's mainline and cross-country go rattling through Without stopping just to disturb the peace,I've quite often in the past sat on the down platform and watched the glint of the setting sun.
Now enough of all our yesterdays,moving on we find ourselves at Yate.
| Re: AQ10 - "Pilning" - West Country Mornington Crescent Posted by grahame at 18:45, 10th December 2025 | |
... enough of all our yesterdays,moving on we find ourselves at Yate.
And looking forward on to Henbury? Or is it too early for that? Should I have waited an hour and three quarters to 20:30?
| Re: AQ10 - "Pilning" - West Country Mornington Crescent Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 19:12, 10th December 2025 | |
Hmm. I'm not convinced that a direct progression from Yatton to Yate isn't a technical breach of the Fernicular Rule.
You can't have two consecutive locations starting with the same letter: that's why Lynton followed by Lynmouth isn't allowed.
