Knowing Kneasy

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 91612

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:

Kneasy:
> Bridges and viaducts do offer some hope and history points the way.
> Presumably the Hogwarts Express goes north from Edinburgh - across
> the Tay Bridge. That's been swept away before, and with a train on 
it.
> I get a warm glow thinking about  Luna being swept out into the 
North
> Sea; if she stays afloat long enough she can check up on the 
Snorkacks
> in Norway. Maybe her cork necklace is destined to be useful.
> 

Geoff:
Yes indeed. It was Thomas Bouch's bridge in 1879. The interesting HP 
link here is, as I have pointed out in at least two posts in the 
distant past, is that the event was commemorated in the most 
appalling verse by the Great McGonagall.....


Kneasy:
> Glefinnan Viaduct indeed. Pah! A mere bagatelle!
> Come to my patch and see what Thomas Telford threw across the Ceirog
> Valley.

Yes. Telford (and Brunel and Stephenson) threw a number of bridges 
around. I hope their aim was good. 

:-)