| A very easy riddle Posted by Red Squirrel at 20:44, 1st May 2025 |     |
This week I have been visiting the land of my kin.
We arrived in KWK on Monday;
On Tuesday we visited D3
(On Wednesday we had a well-earned rest)
Today we walked all the way round RB.37
So what or where are KWK, D3 and RB.37?
| Re: A very easy riddle Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 22:47, 1st May 2025 | |
No, it's not an easy riddle - for me, anyway.
KNK is, I think, Cornish language for Cornwall, but after that I'm struggling.
| Re: A very easy riddle Posted by Red Squirrel at 22:52, 1st May 2025 | |
KWK has a station, but no trains. But it has recently (I think) got itself a CRS code!
| Re: A very easy riddle Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 23:15, 1st May 2025 | |
| Re: A very easy riddle Posted by Red Squirrel at 23:22, 1st May 2025 | |
Yes - KWK is Keswick Bus Station, and you can now get through tickets from Avanti West Coast. The bus runs every half hour from Penrith Station forecourt, and worked very well for us.
Now as it happens, we walked past the old railway station on our way to D3…
| Re: A very easy riddle Posted by PhilWakely at 05:32, 2nd May 2025 | |
RB.37 is a cryptic reference to Derwent Water.
"The Rolls-Royce RB.37 Derwent is a 1940s British centrifugal compressor turbojet engine, the second Rolls-Royce jet engine to enter production."
D3 refers to Skiddaw.
D3 'Skiddaw' was the first Class 44 Peak that I copped many moons ago on a trip to Nottingham.
| Re: A very easy riddle Posted by Red Squirrel at 07:15, 2nd May 2025 | |
Correct on both counts, PhilWakely. Both walks were roughly the same length, but Skiddaw, at somewhere over 900m, was an interesting challenge for someone not as young as he once was!
| Re: A very easy riddle Posted by grahame at 08:35, 2nd May 2025 | |
And there was me looking at a remote Alaskan airfield IATA code KWK, Rb (Rubidium being the 37th element in the periodic table) and with memories of the D3 bus that ran from outside our home into Bath operated by First in the pre-covid era. Lake District makes is much more logical.
