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"Edinburgh railway bridge turned into garage up for sale"
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Posted 8 years ago #
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But of course railway arches are used as garages all over the place. A pretty low uniqueness threshold!
Posted 8 years ago # -
Except that this one is in the space where the trains used to run.
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The bridge is interesting as it never carried a road across the top. It is one of three built to connect the parkland of the Barnton House estate when it was cut in 2 by the railway.
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To add to confusion the photo has a caption saying under a tunnel rather than in a tunnel under a bridge.
See also the song Under The Sea which is actually about being in the sea, beneath the surface. Under the sea would be about life in the sea bed or down towards the mantle.
Posted 8 years ago # -
kaputnik, yeah noticed that while looking up old OS maps
Posted 8 years ago # -
@gembo. For some instance I now have an image of you campaigning at the gates of Faslane demanding they rebrand trident on the basis that their vessels are merely marines and not submarines.
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I ended up on an even more weird route... The distinction between 'aeroplane' and 'airplane' popped into my head, from where I found an article (essentially the former is non-North American, the latter is North American), that linked to a Google 'ngram', something I'd never seen before, which showed how usage had changed in the UK, and then I thought I'd see how the use of 'bicycle' versus 'bike' had changed, and it gave me this graph.
Thread drift much?
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@Wilmington Pity it doesn't distinguish between the usage. An article someone linked to once from here was someone moaning about "bike" as a verb for some reason.
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Posted 8 years ago #
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Slightly related I was at the superhero show in the free sisters venue today with no.1 son (also only son) and the comperes asked us to estimate who was richer TOny Starck or Bruce Wayne in the Forbes 500 Fictional character Rich List.
Quite funny list.
Posted 8 years ago # -
There's a couple of pictures of Barnton Station in the olden days here;
http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/1_edin_t/1_edinburgh_transport_railways_rce105a_barnton.htm
Directly underneath where the Sainsbury's and Post Office are today. The station and sidings occupied all the wedge of land between here and the overbridge* for sale.
*an overbridge carries something over the railway. An underbridge allows something to pass underneath the railway. Which is why you sometimes get confused passengers at railway station when the announcer tells them to take the overbridge, or worse the "underbridge" when they actually mean the subway.
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Back OT to Bike/Bicycle: some of the usage of "bike" may be explained by the (apparent) increasing tendency to call motorbikes "bikes"? Causes me much irritation when the pedalcycling article I navigate to turns out to be about motorcycles.
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