Bicycle Tag of bike

That's an interesting, if brief, article on the pneumatic railway.

It doesn't quite tally with the version I've heard, which related to a longer stretch of line along the route of the old Surrey Canal. Apparently, this longer railway was also atmospheric but it was driven overground by a paddle under the carriage that ran along a tube, with air being pumped either way through the tube, and the slot in the top of the tube (through which the stem of the paddle fitted) was kept fairly airtight by a leather flap which was kept supple by the application of tallow so the pressure of the air kept the slot shut but allowed the stem to peep through.

Unfortunately, so the story goes, the soft leather proved to be attractive to rats, and they kept entering the tube to eat the leather. Each morning when the air pumps were started up, someone would stand at the down-wind end of the pipe with a sack to catch the well-fed rats as they were blown out. But I am told that the railway owners eventually conceded that the rats had them beat, and conventional trains took over.

^ That is a different pneumatic railway, designed by a certain Isambard Kingdom Brunel.:

http://www.historynet.com/isambard-kingdom-brunels-atmospheric-railway.htm

edit - Oops the one in Surrey was yet another example, Brunel's one was in South Devon.

Clue: Historical Rainbow housekeeper

lolz

Old Tag: Geoffrey Museum on Kingsland Road

New Tag...

Ha! I was gonna tag that one day, just not today!

In the spirit of the game (with it's lenient rules) I will leave this as I've tagged today already.

clue is required (want a ride today)

Alms'ure you'll get it eventually.

Old Tag: Geoffrey Museum on Kingsland Road

'Geffrye'

http://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk/

Lovely tag themes happening!

iphone spell check fail.

...someone would stand at the down-wind end of the pipe with a sack to catch the well-fed rats as they were blown out.

A fun way to start the day! Didn't know about the Surrey one or the Devon one. Lots here: [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_railway"]wiki[/ame]

#notatrainspotterhonest

Good dropping by SE last night, sorry to have missed you Si!

Alms'ure you'll get it eventually.

durhhh

I'm off to Bestival for the weekend so you'll have to do without clues.

Happy hunting!

Oh damn I could have done this today! And I'm working tomorrow. Booo.

If I have time I will grab this in the morning.

Old: Alms house, Balls Pond Rd

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New: among the fake hills.

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waguan

old: clissold park bowl

new:

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clue required.

If you where in clissold park where would you go locally for piles of overgrown gravestones?

not feeling creative soz

I hardy think that's a subtle enough clue

lovin the puns.
If I'm not very much mistaken, the current tag has revealed a slight error in the beloved map.
The gates of this graveyard were a tag a long long while back but for some reason never made it to the map. Thanks to whatok's very own referencing tool I could easily go back and find which tag it was!

I hardy think that's a subtle enough clue

I tree what you did there.

I tree what you did there.

leaf him be

bark