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Dorking

posted 13 years ago by simon-housego-2
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Silly question but it's been bugging me since I saw the film. Charlotte is visting Lucy and gets off the train believing it to be Dorking, only to be told that Dorking was in fact the previous stop. Understandably irritated, she has to call for a carriage to take her back.

By chance she bumps into George who is getting off the same train with his bike. She aks him what he's doing there and he tells her that he's visiting his father. George then (on his bike) follows Chartlotte's carrage as she makes her way back to Lucy's.

Question: why didn't George get off the train at Dorking?

[–] Mandyjam 13 years ago

.......because George was so busy blowing on the window and writing "Eternity" in the fog that he didn't notice that they were passing his stop.

"great minds think differently"

[–] JetJotter 13 years ago

This is something we wondered about also.

I remember someone saying, at Lucy's engagement party I think, something about the train station being 5 miles from Summer street. It could be, and this is pure speculation of course, Summer street is on a triangle from two train stations, but Dorking maybe is a little closer.

George was also walking up a staircase from what might be an underground walkway from the opposite platform, having *possibly* alighted from a train, even though I didn't notice one, that came from the other direction. It could be it made sense for him to alight there and cycle to Summer street rather than going on to Dorking.