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Entry: Queen Victorias Railway (10th birthday submission) - A50788191 Author: Bob Stafford. ACE - U3151547 Re entered due to problems Original threads at EWW http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F98997?thread=6538081&show=20&skip=0#pi13 PR http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F13323098?thread=6540092&skip=0&show=20

Morning Bob, Interesting piece.

I'll give a hand with the punctuation etc later on if you like? I'm a bit busy right now.

Only one query -

>>Queen Victoria’s last trip on the line was after her death, she was taken from Osborn House back to Waterloo station in London. She was accompanied by her son Edward VII and Kaiser Wilhelm her grandson and many mourners on her last journey.

When you say 'last trip on the line' - which line do you mean she used? It's not clear to me.

Is that better LB

Hi Bob
Title needs to be Queen Victoria's Railway

It's "Osborne House" and there's a photo of it on my Entry here: A13915794 and lots of links in there you could use for this - good going Bob

GB

Thanks that is done now.

Very good Bob

Your math is wrong here - 500 yard(520 meter) ~ as metres are longer than yards.

I also noticed a vassal that should be a vessel.

Well done thank you for reading it

500 yards=547 metres

Thanks I used a web metric converty thing, or rather miss used it

Thanks for the correction

Hi Bob


>>500 yard(547 meter)


Ooops I think perhaps too many ?

Try this

>>>500 yards or 460 metres.

How strange - I make it 500 yards = 457.2 meters

Damn this slide rule

*turns slide rule upside down*

>>>From the Stokes Bay pier Ryde {is was} a little over 3 miles<<<

to
>>>From the Stokes Bay pier to Ryde was a little over three miles<<<




>>To aid [the] travellers from Portsmouth there was a connection from the Gosport<<<

remove >>>the<<<

>>This was owned and operated by the London Brighton And South Coast Railway Company, this companies main line to London was via Guildford.


change to

>>>This was owned and operated by the London Brighton And South Coast Railway Company, the main line of this company went to London via Guildford.

There are a few more things, but I'll let you sort these first?

LB

That has beenn taken care of thank you what is next

Any more comments or is this it

Hi

>>>a 500 yard (457.2 meter) stretch of line to the Gosport terminus. The line was connect via a short tunnel that was excavated through the earth works of the towns defences. The request was made to the commander to a breech the defences to allow the passage of the line via a gated tunnel.

>>meter << needs to be 'metre'

>> connectneeds to be 'connected'


>>to {a} breech need to remove 'a'

L

>>>berth of the Royal {vessals} the HMY Victoria and Albert

>>tender Fairy. It was these {vessals} that transported the Royal family

vessals needs to be 'vessels'


L

Thank you LB all done

>>The Gosport terminus was used by the Royal family on October 8 1843, during the visit of Prince Albert welcomed King Louis Philippe of France. On the October 14, Queen Victoria travelled to Gosport by train to join the royal visitors on their return to France.


I'm not sure what you mean here Bob, do you mean?

The Gosport terminus was used by the Royal family on October 8th 1843 when Prince Albert met and welcomed King Louis Philippe of France there, upon his arrival for a State visit. On October 14th 1843 Queen Victoria traveled to Gosport with the Royal visitor on his return to France.

>This line was not constructed until 1863, just 38 years prior to the Queen's death in 1901. This was despite the hopes and the plans of the Gosport Pier and Branch Railway company, although they did state that the line was to be constructed for that purpose, but this might have been to encourage investment. This might all seem a lot of fuss to go through, but it must be remembered that the entire Royal household spent a total of five months on the Isle of Wight. Two holidays were taken, the summer break mid July to late August, the Christmas holidays were from mid December to late February.


with a bit of correction....

>>This line was not constructed until 1863, just 38 years prior to the Queen's death in 1901. This was despite the hopes and the plans of the Gosport Pier and Branch Railway company; whilst they stated at the time that the line was to be constructed for a Royal purpose, this might only to have been to encourage investment. Perhaps this seemed a lot of fuss to go through, but it must be remembered that the entire Royal household spent a total of five months on the Isle of Wight each year. Two holidays were taken, the summer break was from mid July to late August and the Christmas holiday was from mid December to late February.<<

>>>phew