Chunnel Closed - Continent cut off

I'm a New Zealander.

Regards, Greg.Procter.

There were a number of lines in the past, all on Jersey. One was the Jersey Railway and Tramway Company, which ran until 1936. Another was the Jersey Eastern Railway, which closed in 1929.

During the German occupation of the Channel Islands in WW2, the Oganisation Todt built a new railway that used most of the formation of the previous lines. In the west of the island it was metre gauge, to the east 60cm.

Um, I've never heard that before.

There are pretty comprehensive guides here:

including the line "I suspect that the UK is probably the only country in the world whose average inhabitant has no idea what its legal name actually is."

But it's hauled by a diesel loco! Where will those 1938 Tube trains end up next? (I've got an EFE set on my layout, powered by Tenshodo SPUDs.)

I've got one in my garage, sadly not full size, but a little bigger than the EFE variant. (See

In message , Clive D. W. Feather writes

Hmmm. Rennes + -y = Rennie. Isn't that something you take when you've got gut-ache?

There's a Cornwall in Brittany, only they spell it Cornouaille.

There is of course the incident (in the Napoleonic wars ISTR) whwn a French force consisting mainly of Bretons landed in Pembrokeshire. When the local resistance force met them the two sides realised they could understand each other.

I might add that Cumbria and most of the western part of southern Scotland are also occupied parts of the realm of the 'Ancient Britons' who spoke p-Celtic. The Picts (i.e. the people who were to be kept out by Hadrians Wall) and the true Scots (who actually came from the Mountains of Mourne part of Northern Ireland) spoke q-Celtic.

Let's go with "I remember wrong" and keep the infallibility of my old social studies teacher on track!

I really should pay more attention to the sending email address shouldn't I! Sorry!

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No problem - if I had applied while my grandmother was still alive I could have had a British passport.

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In message , John Sullivan writes

And do away with the Barnet formula.

In message , Beowulf writes

I thought Britain became Great Britain when pronounced so by Queen Victoria in some great exhibition. Though I'll be happy to be corrected.

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She may very well have done so, however the ancient titles of Less Britain and Great Britain pre date H.M. by rather a few years. Beowulf

Way back, one of the criteria was where one's live grandparents was born.

"Gregory Procter" wrote

And still used by such sports as soccer and rugby to determine one's qualification to play international football.

This may also apply to other sports too, but without resorting to such

*antics* it would be virtually impossible to assemble international rugby league teams for Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

John.

OK, give me a call if Yorkshire ever needs a one legged back!

You have rugby teams? ;-)

Greg.P.

"Gregory Procter" wrote

We sure have and I seem to remember New Zealand having them in the distant passed. ;-)

John.

In message , John Turner writes

Why would anyone want to assemble international rugby league teams for Wales, Scotland and Ireland? As I recall, rugby league is not played in those countries.