1. Which Bond movie ended on a train?
2. Who wrote The Railway Children?
3. What’s the largest railway station in the world?
4. What year was Strangers on a Train?
5. Which train features in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, ending in Paris?
Answers: Live and Let Die, Edith Nesbit, Grand Central, 1951, Orient Express

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Just got in from work.
Memo – don’t allow any Russians to visit again because they tend to leave vodka, tomato juice, whisky, apple cider, borodinski bread, mushrooms and pickled cucumbers, which need to be polished off.
Sometimes I think I’m a right bstd.

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2nd last entry in the current series

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It’s very hard getting information on Laura Dekker’s movements but it appears that she has reached the Canary Islands.
She certainly doesn’t maintain her website well and who knows where she is or what she’s doing?  Is her father waiting in the Canaries for her?  This trip is in sharp contrast to Jessica Watson’s, with Jessica [...]

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Can’t say her website is too impressive and there is a certain strangeness to her campaign but best of luck anyway.  It seems she left on Saturday on the solo part of her voyage.  Dutch Daily News says:
The sail girl Laura Dekker has left from Portugal to the Canary Islands Saturday morning, according to her [...]

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