#that is something different

[stephensmithuk]

A Ferry Few Thoughts on Van Helsing's journey

@animatemush - some more info for you.

Abraham van Helsing is heading for London. He's not going to drive there - he probably doesn't have a car and in any event, the road network of Europe is nowhere near as developed as it will be 125 years later.

So, he's going via public transport. From Amsterdam, he'll get the 8.51pm train to Hook of Holland, which had a station literally next to the dockside. On arrival at 10.41pm, it will be a case of go through Dutch passport control and onto the ship, that left at 11.20pm every day in 1899.

With a 20-minute time difference (I believe) between the UK and the Netherlands, the steamer crossing takes 7 hours in reasonable weather, arriving at Harwich at 6am the following morning. Through British customs and onto a waiting Great Eastern Railway train at Harwich Parkeston Quay, specially put on just for the ferry passengers, then non-stop with breakfast available on the train, for an 8.10am arrival in London Liverpool Street.

The timetable is here:

The "up" boat trains arrived at Platform 10 at Liverpool Street, from where you could literally walk into the Great Eastern Hotel, owned by the company. Two tracks ran into the basement to bring stuff in (like fresh fish) and take rubbish etc. out.

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As for telegrams, there were a large number of undersea cables by this point, including to the United States and also to various part of the British Empire. The successors to the cables form the backbone of the modern Internet.

[thedreaminus]

Last Line Meme

@madameazzure this is interesting. I've never seen anything like it, thanks for the tagging ;3

This is from a WIP (not sure when it will be posted)

You're left alone, not sure who to blame for the botched life but yourself. 

Tagging: @pandora-twists, @a-ravenclaw-marauder, @darkicedragon, @mytigernacho

[lookninjas]

10.  12 Women (And One Jane Doe)

in the film version, we end like this: in a courtroom, with a man on the stand and twelve angry women (and one Jane Doe) and a jury of someone's peers not his, necessarily, or theirs, but someone's some blue-collar white american male, perhaps and there is justice or something like it

and the lawyer who makes the winning case a handsome man, handsomer than the lawyer who lost, of course goes home to his wife and their daughters and their dog and they embrace him, warmly and we know that, regardless of which side won, it was the right side because look -- how handsome he is, how grateful his family is to see him, all those fragile women, how tightly they cling how their graceful arms are all the proof we need that the system works

and go home with the ending credits song, still stuck in our heads and go to sleep reassured that justice is, always will be, done for the man on the stand and the fragile women and, if we're lucky, even Jane Doe by the jury of someone's peers whether or not they're ours

but

in case you haven't noticed

this isn't exactly a movie

and the trial has been permanently postponed

and twelve women (and one Jane Doe) are still waiting for justice or something like it