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Roger Farnworth
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Railway Miscellania! Under this heading you can find a variety of railway inspired pages and blog items – please use the drop down menu.
Bonjour,
I am sorry to write in french but my english is very bad !
J’ai lu avec intérêt vos “posts” sur les “Railways of Herault”.
Je tiens toutefois à vous signaler que la première partie (St-Chinian to Cazouls-lès-Bzs) cite de nombreuses informations qui proviennent d’une étude que j’ai publiée dans le numéro 27 de la Revue “Historail” (octobre 2013)(je tiens le fichier numérique à votre disposition si vous le souhaitez). Dès lors, pour rendre à César ce qui lui revient, sans doute conviendrait-il de l’indiquer.
Thank you very much.
Philippe Marassé
Mes excuses abondantes. J’ai tout référencé aux sources sur lesquelles je les ai trouvées.
Je suis très heureux de bien référencer votre travail. Je ne savais pas que j’utilisais du matériel non référencé.
Si vous souhaitez envoyer le fichier numérique par courrier électronique, je vais passer en revue ce que j’ai écrit et faire référence aux choses correctement.
Encore une fois, mes excuses.
Thank you for you reply.
Pourriez-vous m’indiquer votre adresse mail pour vous envoyer le fichier numérique ?
Thank you.
Merci
rogerfarnworth@aol.com
Thank you very much for completing references.
Dear Reverend Farnworth, I am currently compiling a book for Middleton Press on the line from Wennington to Morecambe/Heysham via Lancaster and two of the questions I have that no-one can seem to answer are, as follows: [1] do you know the meaning of the word ayre as in Green Ayre and [2] do you know if the Edmondson curve at the former Torrisholme No. 1 junction had anything to do with the Lancaster born Thomas Edmondson?
Hello Roy
I have found the following on Wikipedia which probably answers your first query. …..
“Ayre (landform)
An ayre is the name used for shingle beaches in Orkney, Shetland and the Isle of Man. The word is derived from the Old Norse eyrr, meaning a shingle beach or gravelly place, and may be applied to ordinary beaches, cliff-foot beaches such as the Lang Ayre in Northmavine, Shetland, spits, bars or tombolos, but only if formed of shingle. More than 130 such shingle beaches are named on Ordnance Survey maps of Shetland, but far fewer in Orkney, where most beaches are formed of sand. The word in its Old Norse form is common in Iceland, and it also occurs in a few place names in the north and west of the Scottish mainland which had a strong Norse influence, such as Eriboll (“a homestead on a shingle beach”) and in the names of several shingle banks – Salt Ayre, Green Ayre, Stake Ayre, Rabbit Ayre and Whinny Ayre – in the tidal reach of the River Lune at Lancaster.”
I am sorry that I cannot help with the second item.
Best wishes
Roger