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« on: September 07, 2024, 17:15:38 »

Can you place these artworks all at stations ... 1 each today, please.

1. Haparanda - stuving


2. Bristol Temple Meads - Chris from Nailsea


3. Paddington - ChrisB


4. Antwerpen Centraal, Belgium - JayMac


5. Taormina-Giardini, Scicily - bradshaw


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7. Southampton [Central] - ray951


8. Exeter St Davids - Kempis


9. Weymouth - brooklea


10. Cheltenham Spa - bradshaw


11. Swindon - bobm


12. Hamburg Hauptbahnhof - JayMac
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« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2024, 17:18:31 »

2.  Bristol Temple Meads, in the concourse. And no, I wasn't standing next to grahame when he took the picture.  Roll Eyes

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« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2024, 17:25:41 »

3. Paddington Tongue
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From station to station, back to Bristol city....


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« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2024, 17:32:16 »

6.  If it's Jenny Agutter in the railway children then it has to be Oakworth Station.
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« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2024, 17:48:19 »

4. Antwerpen Centraal, Belgium.
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« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2024, 18:05:11 »

7 Southampton
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« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2024, 18:10:33 »

6.  If it's Jenny Agutter in the railway children then it has to be Oakworth Station.

Actually it hasn't ... and isn't.  It's somewhere in South West England.
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« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2024, 18:15:01 »

6.  If it's Jenny Agutter in the railway children then it has to be Oakworth Station.

Actually it hasn't ... and isn't.  It's somewhere in South West England.

Blimey!  Shocked  We both fell for that one, then.  Embarrassed

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« Reply #8 on: September 07, 2024, 18:22:43 »

8. Exeter St Davids.
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« Reply #9 on: September 07, 2024, 20:37:31 »

11 - Swindon
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06. Taunton.
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« Reply #11 on: September 07, 2024, 21:39:16 »

10 Cheltenham Spa station
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« Reply #12 on: September 07, 2024, 21:44:25 »

6.  If it's Jenny Agutter in the railway children then it has to be Oakworth Station.

Actually it hasn't ... and isn't.  It's somewhere in South West England.

Hmmm, this quiz is more fiendish than I thought!

No points I suppose for getting the person in the picture right... please don't tell me that I've got that wrong as well! Shocked
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« Reply #13 on: September 07, 2024, 22:23:39 »

I think we were both right in identifying the person in the picture, and the film context: see https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/railway-children-yorkshire-locations .

However, I now also think that the image posted by grahame is a piece of artwork at some completely different location 'somewhere in South West England'.  Roll Eyes

It's not Nailsea and Backwell, if that helps.  Grin
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« Reply #14 on: September 07, 2024, 22:31:21 »

6.  If it's Jenny Agutter in the railway children then it has to be Oakworth Station.

Actually it hasn't ... and isn't.  It's somewhere in South West England.

Hmmm, this quiz is more fiendish than I thought!

No points I suppose for getting the person in the picture right... please don't tell me that I've got that wrong as well! Shocked

It is Jenny Agutter - and indeed a photo still from "The Railway Children" I think. Jenny provided some assistance to our 2005/06 campaign to avoid the SRA» (Strategic Rail Authority - about) proposed cuts from December 2006, and indeed that campaign was broadly successful - the exception being the Swindon to Westbury line which was reduced by 60% to save £30,000 a year and (as I understand it) so they could save some face.
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